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Sunday, June 21, 2020

New York State shuts another Indian Point nuclear reactor

 Do you want to have
more CO2 emissions ?

Do you want to have
more expensive 
electricity?

Do you want to lower 
the reliability of the 
electric grid ?

People in New York
State, where I was born
and spent my first 24 years,
got all three wants satisfied
by closing down another
Indian Point nuclear 
reactor.

That decision benefits no one.

Although perhaps a victory
for climate alarmists and
other anti-Americans ?



Indian Point is along the 
Hudson River, 36 miles 
north of New York City.

The last of the three
nuclear reactors at 
Indian Point, is scheduled 
to be shut down next year.

Nuclear fear is promoted by 
dishonest environmentalists, 
such as the Natural Resources 
Defense Council (NRDC). 

Nuclear power is safe.

Fear was created by the movie 
China Syndrome in the 1970s,
about a meltdown that would send 
a cloud of radiation covering 
the entire state of Pennsylvania.

In reality, it's impossible for t
he reactor core to burrow 
into the ground and reach 
the water table, if the core 
were to melt. 

Every reactor in the US, 
and probably other countries, 
has a thick concrete reinforced 
steel base under the reactor, 
where melting material 
would be caught. 

The Fukushima disaster 
proved that -- no one was
killed by radiation there.

The Indian Point reactors 
are high above sea level 
so back up diesels that 
supply power 
to the reactor, 
in the event power 
from the grid becomes
unavailable, are safe.

Reactors can’t explode 
like an atomic bomb.

Some people 
don't know that.

Even if terrorists 
blew up a react6or,
there would be 
very little danger 
to the population 
in New York City 
because the
melted core 
would be caught
by the concrete base.