Watchdogs criticize nuclear storage study; A.G. says NRC didn't focus on Indian Point
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Watchdogs criticize nuclear storage study; A.G. says NRC didn't focus on Indian Point
Dec. 25, 2013
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his counterparts in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont have given a thumbs-down to the federal governments draft study on the long-term storage of used nuclear fuel.
A 143-page document filed late last week detailed their concerns, along with those of a Minnesota Native American tribe.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions review, they maintain, was incorrectly focused at the industry level and not individual plants.
A federal court in 2012 found the NRC didnt fully consider the hazards of on-site storage of old fuel at the nations nuclear plants, including Indian Point in Buchanan. The court ordered the commission to evaluate the environmental effects of such storage.
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