Upcoming HBO "documentary" on Indian Point

["Jim Hardeman" <Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us>]

Colleagues ?



I ran across the following blurb on Yahoo! news ...



Jim Hardeman

Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us 



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Documentary by Kennedy kin envisages terror strike on nuclear plant



Thu Sep 9,12:48 PM ET  Add U.S. National - AFP to My Yahoo! 



NEW YORK (AFP) - The son of the late Bobby Kennedy asks Americans to "imagine a world without New York City" in a new documentary probing the possibility of a terrorist strike on the nearby Indian Point nuclear power plant. 



The film, "Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable," which premiers Thursday night on the HBO cable network, is produced and directed by Kennedy's daughter, Rory Kennedy, and prominently features her brother, the environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 



Described as convincing but "unashamedly political" by the New York Times, it raises serious questions over security at the plant, which sits just 35 miles north of Manhattan. 



It also employs chilling computer-generated images to explore the possible scenario if one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 had instead targetted Indian Point. 



To illustrate the vulnerability of the plant to terrorist attack, the film shows Rory Kennedy and a helicopter pilot hovering around Indian Point for 25 minutes with no security challenge to their presence. 



Kennedy also notes that the plant is not protected by the same "no fly" zone accorded to Disneyland. 



Press previews have been mixed, with some critics suggesting that the film's doomsday scenario is aimed less at improving security at Indian Point and more at backing the argument of environmentalists who want the plant shut down entirely. 



Robert Kennedy Jr. appears in his role as chief attorney of Riverkeeper, a Hudson River Valley environmental group that has long opposed the plant. 



"Imagine a world without New York City," he says at one point. "The terrorists already have." 



Nuclear regulatory officials and supporters of Indian Point say the film's central thesis is flawed, pointing out that the chance of terrorists hitting spent-fuel pools and causing a meltdown would be minute. 



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