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Push Ban To Keep Dangerous Materials Out Of Terrorists' Hands

August 12, 2008 -- Today Representative Peter King (R-NY), Ranking Member on the House Homeland Security Committee and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo warned that current restrictions on access to highly enriched uranium (HEU) are too lax and could potentially lead to terrorists acquiring the potentially lethal material. There are seven civilian facilities across the country that continue to use HEU even though safer alternative materials exist.    » read more »

Trial Will Start Friday in Toledo, OH

August 6, 2008 -- Andrew Siemaszko, a former nuclear safety engineer at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, will go on trial this Friday for allegedly lying to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about conditions leading to a near-disaster at the plant in 2002. NRC documents, however, show that Siemaszko is not to blame. It was FirstEnergy, the plant's owners, which falsified reports to the NRC, not Siemaszko. In fact, Siemaszko was one work shift away from discovering the problem at Davis-Besse while cleaning the reactor head in 2000, but FirstEnergy prevented him from completing his task.    » read more »

Salt Lake City - Utah Governor Jon Huntsman decided Tuesday to direct Bill Sinclair, who represents Utah on the Northwest Interstate Low-Level Waste Compact, to vote against any proposals for foreign nuclear waste to come in to Utah. The issue is on the Compact's May 8 agenda.

Skull Valley, Utah: Photo by Rylan S L (CC)    » read more »

January 24, 2008 -- "I am very disappointed in today's NRC decision. The fine announced today amounts to another slap on the wrist for Entergy, which has repeatedly failed to meet deadlines at Indian Point.

It has been a year since the legal deadline for Entergy to have a new siren system passed. The people of New York deserve better from Entergy and from the federal agencies charged with overseeing Indian Point.    » read more »

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Should Consider Threat of Terrorism, Earthquakes, and Adequate Evacuation Plans; Westchester County, A.G. Blumenthal Join Filing

NEW YORK, NY (December 3, 2007) – New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano today announced the submission of papers to deny the relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear power plant.    » read more »

December 3, 2007 -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today moved to intervene at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to demand that the commission deny the Indian Point nuclear power plant's application for a 20-year license extension unless the owners address serious safety and environmental concerns.

Blumenthal said that Indian Point's license, which expires in 2013 for one reactor and 2015 for the other, should not be extended unless the plant:

* Meets current NRC and federal safety, operating and environmental standards.    » read more »

WHITE PLAINS, NY (November 15, 2007) - New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he and the Attorneys General of five other states have submitted a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) expressing serious concerns about the NRC’s continued disregard of safety issues - including susceptibility to earthquakes or terrorist attacks - when deciding whether to renew the operating license of a nuclear power plant beyond its initial 40 year term.    » read more »

Lawsuit Calls for Change in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulations

NEW YORK, NY (October 24, 2007) -- New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced today that his office submitted legal papers in support of its lawsuit calling on the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to force nuclear power plants, like Indian Point, to safeguard their facilities against terrorist attacks from the air.    » read more »

Aug. 1, 2007 -- (Santa Fe, NM) – New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today petitioned the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to reconsider its plans to create a “generic environmental impact statement” (GEIS) concerning newly proposed uranium recovery operations including in-situ leach (ISL) recovery facilities and conventional mills to be located in the western United States.

The NRC has stated that the purpose of this “generic” process is “to aid in a more efficient environmental review for each separate license application.”    » read more »

Cuomo Challenges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Review of Indian Point

NEW YORK, NY (July 12, 2007) – New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the filing of a brief calling for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to broaden the criteria considered in the relicensing of nuclear power plants -- an action that could have implications for the Indian Point power plant. The brief was filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.    » read more »

N.J. Contends Impact of Terrorist Strike Should be Considered In Relicensing Review

April 25, 2007 -- TRENTON -- New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner announced today that New Jersey has filed a petition with the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a finding by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that it need not consider the impact of a terrorist attack as part of its relicensing review of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, Ocean County.    » read more »

April 24, 2007 -- "The NRC should immediately extend this common sense requirement to Indian Point and other existing reactors, ordering them to assess their ability to withstand a large airplane crash. I have advocated this requirement for years. Requiring future reactors to evaluate their vulnerability to air attack - while welcome - does nothing to address the real and terrifying threat of a terror attack from the skies.    » read more »