Public Health and Indian Point shutdown campaign

[Stewart, Farber]

Riverkeeper:



Your so-called public information campaign against the Indian Point Nuclear 

Plants would bring a smile to Goebbels. Your claims are little more than clever 

propaganda contradicted by the environmental, climatic, strategic, and economic 

advantages of nuclear power plants vs. every kind of bulk power generation 

available to take its place at this time.



If you had your way, you would be adding tens of millions of tons of greenhouse 

gases per year to the atmosphere, as well as adding mercury to lakes and rivers 

all over the Northeast poisoning fish, birds, and other wildlife due to 

replacement power generation from fossil fuels comsumed if Indian Point were to 

be shut down. 



In addition nuclear plant operations avoids many other adverse local impacts on 

public health and safety vs. other power generation based on the proven 

environmental benefits of nuclear power plant operations, both in routine 

operations and even in the event of an accident.



If committing assault and battery on the truth were a crime, your organization 

would be guilty. Nuclear plants are the only industrial facility in this country 

which could withstand a direct strike by a jumbo jet without serious damage to 

plant safety systems or serious offsite consequences. What do you think would 

happen if someone fired a single rocket propelled grenade [never mind a large 

commercial airliner strike] at any of the LNG or natural gas storage tanks all 

over New York or New England [some within a mile or so of the center of cities 

like Boston]?



Your campaign is so far removed from the facts that its promoters at your 

organization are either fools, or complete propagandists, and your claims are 

little more than lies.



Either way you are doing the public, and ultimately your organization, a great 

disservice.





Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

Air Pollution Control [UMass School of Public Health '73]









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