Westchester lawmakers vote to close Indian Point (interesting tidbit on Hillary)

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Extending the evacuation zone is the way to "kill" the plant. The liberal politicians on Long Island insisted on a 20 mile evacuation zone for the Long Island Lighting Company Nuclear Plant (LILCO) -- which was started at the same time as the Connecticut Millstone Nuclear Plant 1. Millstone has generated significant electricity over the past 20+ years. LILCO nuclear plant was completed, and then scrapped because of political lunacy. The 20 mile zone was impossible to implement and manage.

But the real sad story is that various testing of containment buildings for reactors, plus lessons learned from the Three Mile Island accident showed that all that was really necessary is a ONE MILE EVACUATION ZONE!! One Mile. Thats it! But be conservative - make it 3 miles. The cost to manage and implement is a fraction of the cost of a 10 mile zone.

Containments have been demonstrated to be stronger than the models used in accident analyses. And if an accident happens, the release of radionuclides is limited by the containment spray system, which is more effective than assumed for the analyses.

But this is a way to kill the plants. Sort of equal to insisting that all the water behind a hydroelectric dam be drained down until a backup dam is built that will provide protection against the failure of a first dam. Or insisting that coal plants could operate, but insist on a zero release of any particulate material (impossible to achieve unless many megabucks spent!!) And more people have been killed in the U.S. due to failure of dams than killed by nuclear power plants.

Mike

But this is a way to kill the plants.

Yes, it is a backdoor way of circumventing the legal process. The NRC passed these evac plan requirements in the post-TMI spasm of hype and hysteria, and The Law Of Unintended Consequences has allowed the anti-nook kooks to use that as a way to shut down plants or keep them from operating or being built. Shoreham, as you have noted, is a case in point. The local kooks just said, no, we're not going to participate in your emergency plan. So the plan can't get approval by FEMA because it requires local participation. So without the e-plan approved the NRC can't issue the full-power license.

Then-Governor Duke of Kak tried that in MA with Shoreham. He even went so far as to order his goons to tear down the evacuation horns that the utility had legally sited on private property. The utility called the cops and filed charges for vandalism against those tearing down the sirens. Good for them!

So now these crumbums are playing the same gambit with Indian Point, a perfectly functional, safe, and economic facility that has operated for decades without incident, and no credible scenario has ever been presented that would show any reasonable chance of rupturing the containment or causing a large-scale release. I say make Hillary! and the local scumwad politicans pushing this spend an upstate New York winter without electricity. Let them try to heat their freezing butts with windmills or solar panels (Hillary! might need a big one).

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