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An alarm that lasted several minutes at the Indian Point nuclear power plant set neighbors on edge Thursday. Back in April, we mentioned that Entergy, the owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plant 40 miles north of the city, was fined $130,000 for failing to install an emergency warning system by a required deadline. This was just weeks after a fire in the facility's transformers tripped an automatic shutdown at one of the site's reactors––the second reactor shutdown that month. The two mishaps led to a downgrade in Indian Point's safety rating by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Indian Point was testing out that belated area warning system Thursday, when an employee "pushed the wrong button" and an intended silent test of the alarm caused 14 sirens to start wailing for several minutes. Local police received dozens of calls from frightened residents. Unsurprisingly, public confidence in the safety of a nuclear power plant so close to NYC continues to wane.
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So the reactor systems worked as designed and some idiot pushed the wrong button sounding an alarm? How is this an argument against nuclear power?
The workers at Indian Point per se never have anything to do with the sirens. The sirens are run from a joint Westchester County Emergency Operations center, a place not under any of the quality controls , (or training) that are standard at Indian Point.
Local Politicians wanted sirens, so now they have sirens. The sirens are NOT run by Indian Point, from Indian Point, or for Indian Point.
The sirens are a useless addendum, you might as well have sirens on the Croton Dam, or on the BASF chemical factory, or on the Metro North tracks (all targets of terrorist attacks).
But we do not. Why? Because political agendas and leftist propaganda shops have focused media & pols only on Indian Point.
And by the way, nothing is "waning". The public in general supports Indian Point 80% to 20%, and the numbers are moving in the pro-Indian Point direction.
If anything is "waning" its the geriatric neo-communist antinuke movement, led by such near-dead activists as Pete Seeger (now 87 years old).
What is also "waning" is available electricity, now critically in short supply in the region.
Forget the sirens, they are nonsense, political nonsense.
Homer Simpson could not get within ten miles of Indian Point. The average IQ among employees there is 145. These clean-cut, smart-as-a-whip sharpies are good people, not a single cartoon figure among 'em.
They are keeping your homes lit & air conditioned.
The assholes running the sirens?
I dunno.
Ask Spano about THEM.
Someone is letting the Drinking Bird do their work for them...
I have seen ex-employees of IP talk about the lax security in the plant. Is it different now?
Wow, it sounds like #2 is probably entering in his comment during his coffee break at IP...
Would you mind showing some details about the study claiming the public overwhelmingly supports the continued operation of IP?
The watgermellons (redgreens on the outised, red on the inside) are all agaisnt nuclear enregy OR ANY TRULY VIABLE ENERGY SOURCE
The watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) are against ANY VIABLE ENERGY SOURCE for the free nations, but do not mind if red fascist nations, such as China and Vietnam build or plan to build nuclear power plants, such as the Westingouhouse AP1000, developed in the US,but built in China,not here.
Our green/red fascists push us towards green energy sources that, on the aggregate, are worse than useless, and sabotage our use of the energy supplies that work. This is the most effective means of weakening our country, while building up totalirian regimes. Let us tell them where to go with their propaganda.
Mike Oliver
Thank God for reasonable debate.
"Homer Simpson could not get within ten miles of Indian Point. The average IQ among employees there is 145. These clean-cut, smart-as-a-whip sharpies are good people, not a single cartoon figure among 'em."
I love when people quote IQ numbers. Ask any person certified to give these tests, and they'll tell you that above 140, you can't give an accurate number. The proper way to label someone above 140 is say their IQ is 140+. Now, yes, there are certain tests out there whose scales do go above 140. But if you want to talk about the peer-reviewed, accepted standard, it's 140+.
Yeah, they are all 140+...... mine is 160.
The polls cited are the Manhattanville poll, and the Bisconti poll. Use your Googling aptitude to find them......(poll) + (nuclear) + (Bisconti) ....get it?
The lax security pre 9-11 was cured by summarily firing Wackenhut Security in 2002, and bringing in a new guard force (no fat old guys, no martial arts neocon gun freaks, etc.)
At the same time an entire Byzantine maze of security construction went forward under NRC, and now every turkey, every deer, every possum, and every bald eagle is tracked by covert electronic means. (in lieue of any terrorists, who have strangely not shown up).
The White Plains Corporate office is running the siren deal, whole cloth, so don't blame Homer for any fuckups vis-a-vis the sirens.
They are NOT part of Indian Point.
And by the way, Homer sez hello. He is busy writing his dissertation on the combinatorial permutations of myth versus truth. Should be out in paperback reeeeal soon.