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Re: Indian Point story
HI Maury
Its the ever popular CRAC-2 study.
You can find it, and a host of anti-nuke stuff you'll hate, at
http://www.mothersalert.org
click on "information" and go about halfway down the page.
norm
maury wrote:
> I doubt if the Times writer knows. But can anyone post or provide a link to the
> NRC study? Or has it now been removed from public access because it might be
> useful to terrorists?
> Cheers (I guess?)
> Maury Siskel maury@webtexas.com
> ========================================
> Rob Gunter wrote:
>
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > Most of the article is tame relative to the statement "A 1982 study
> > commissioned by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that a meltdown
> > at Indian Point 2 could cause 46,000 fatalities and 141,000 injuries in the
> > short term."
> >
> > What is meant by "Short Term". Are we talking "short term" geologic time
> > with the LNT and collective dose, or does the study anticipate an accident
> > with short term fatalities orders of magnitude above Chernobyl??
> >
> > Robert J. Gunter, CHP
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RaddGuyy [mailto:raddguyy@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:56 AM
> > To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> > Subject: Indian Point story
> >
> > April 4, 2002
> > Rising Anxiety
> > By BOB HERBERT
> > The nuclear reactor known as Indian Point 2 sits beside the Hudson River
> > about 30 miles north of New York City. It has the worst safety rating of all
> > 103 nuclear reactors in the United States. And of all the U.S. reactors,
> > it's located in the most densely populated region.
> > That is not a good combination of circumstances.
> > Concern over the plant's continuing safety problems has heightened since
> > Sept. 11. Increasing numbers of residents and elected officials are coming
> > to the conclusion that the possibility of a terrorist attack or a
> > catastrophic accident at Indian Point is a risk that is not worth taking.
> > They believe it is time for the Indian Point complex with its two reactors -
> > Indian Point 2 and the less troublesome Indian Point 3 - to close.
> > In February 2000 an accident at Indian Point 2 resulted in the discharge of
> > 20,000 gallons of radioactive water. Officials said the radiation released
> > was not a threat to public health, but the reactor was closed for nearly a
> > year. Last December, four of seven control room crews failed to pass their
> > annual qualification exams. That same month the reactor shut down
> > automatically after an electrical connection to the plant's turbine switched
> > off unexpectedly. Leaks, malfunctions, human errors - it's always something
> > at Indian Point.
> >
> > Casualties from a worst-case scenario at the complex would dwarf those of
> > the attack on the World Trade Center. A 1982 study commissioned by the U.S.
> > Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that a meltdown at Indian Point 2 could
> > cause 46,000 fatalities and 141,000 injuries in the short term. The
> > potential casualties from a meltdown at Indian Point 3 were even worse.
> > Long-term, the deaths from cancer resulting from an Indian Point catastrophe
> > would likely be horrendous.
> > The casualty estimates are conservative. The population in the region is
> > greater now, and evacuation plans are pathetically inadequate.
> > I called the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week to ask about the safety
> > ratings at Indian Point 2. A spokeswoman, Diane Screnci, said the commission
> > did not rank plants. But it does conduct inspections and issue findings that
> > are graded using the colors green, white, yellow and red. Green is the
> > safest category and red the least safe.
> > Indian Point 2 is "currently the only plant with a red finding," Ms. Screnci
> > said. She characterized the red finding as highly significant and said
> > Indian Point 2 continued to receive "increased N.R.C. attention."
> > A serious accident or even a terrorist attack is no guarantee that the worst
> > will happen. But we all learned as the World Trade Center vanished on Sept.
> > 11 that the worst can happen.
> > The vulnerability of nuclear power plants is made frighteningly clear when
> > we consider that American Airlines Flight 11, as it flew south from Boston
> > toward Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, passed almost directly over the Indian
> > Point complex. Then consider that President Bush reported in his State of
> > the Union Message that Americans in Afghanistan had found diagrams of U.S.
> > nuclear power plants, and that the nation's 103 nuclear reactors were never
> > designed to withstand the impact of a commercial airliner.
> > Everyone within at least a 50-mile radius would be in danger if something
> > terrible happened at Indian Point. That 50-mile radius contains more than 7
> > percent of the entire population of the United States - 20 million people.
> > It includes all of New York City; the suburban New York counties of
> > Westchester, Orange, Rockland and Putnam; Bergen County in New Jersey; and
> > most of Fairfield County in Connecticut. There is no other nuclear plant in
> > the country with anything close to Indian Point's potential for disaster.
> > Its chronic safety issues made Indian Point problematic before Sept. 11.
> > Accidents happen. But since the attack on the World Trade Center, and with
> > the awful proliferation of suicide bombers in the Middle East, the
> > unthinkable is no longer unthinkable. Residents in the vast potential danger
> > zone surrounding Indian Point have little trouble imagining an airliner
> > diving toward the complex, or terrorists on the ground attempting to
> > sabotage it.
> > Anxiety is very high, and opposition to the plant by residents and elected
> > officials is intensifying. It may not be long before a consensus is reached
> > that Indian Point is a problem the region can do without.
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