In Case of Nuclear Incident At Indian Point, Entergy, NRC, and Fema May FORCE US TO SHELTER IN PLACE

The twin Nuclear Reactors owned by Entergy, and known as Indian Point, from this citizen's perspective, are not safe. Furthermore, they can be easily attacked if terrorists were to do their proper homework...both Entergy and the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) do their best to hide this very real fact from the AT TISK STAKEHOLDERS that live in the community known as the "Ten Mile Circle of Death". They have done this by effectively removing the DBT (Design Basis Threat) from public review and comment, have hidden its contents from those who should have a right to know...those of us at most risk. That said, if you know where to look within the public domain that is the Internet, you can find some very disturbing facts about said DBT, and realize that Entergy cannot, or will not provide adequate security at their nuclear facility...if you live by a nuclear power plant, you can change the name of the reactor and it's owner, and this article is pertinent to your community as well.

First, lets look at some security flaws...

1. LA street gangs can easily get their hands on a 50 Caliber High Powered rifle, and do...you can find numerous press accounts of such weapons being seized...yet, after a CLOSED DOOR meeting with the commission, and against NRC staff recommendations, this weapon was taken off the list of items that reactor security staff is expected to defend against. The stated reason for the removal of this weapon from the list...Terrorists would not have easy access to such a weapon, let alone the munitions needed.

Lets do a Paul Harvey here...the guard towers, and control room of nuclear reactors have bullet resistant glass, not BULLET PROOF GLASS. A terrorist or malcontent bent on wreaking havoc could (from up too three miles away with the right munitions) take out a guard tower or station with single shot. If a malcontent, said weapon would allow a person to blow the windows right out of a control room, thus gaining access to the heart and soul of the reactor. Some cost estimates put replacement of bullet resistant glass at $10 million dollars per reactor site...so, we have been put at FAR GREATER RISK as a community because Entergy wants to save money, increase it's bottom line profits at our peril as a community.

2. A terrorist favorite vehicle of choice when making a car bomb has been a 28' Ryder rental truck. The NRC staff originally recommended to the commission that Nuclear Reactors be hardened to thwart such an attack...problem was, a truck filled with explosives of this size could do irreparable harm to the nuclear reactor if it succeeded in getting physically on the plant site, and close to the reactor.

The NEI (lobbying arm of the nuclear industry) and the president's of many of the companies owning nuclear reactors wanted the size of that vehicle changed...changed to one small enough that even if successfully detonated, it would not do irreparable harm to the reactor core...the solution? The DBT now has the explosive laden vehicle scenario a SUV (think Pathfinder) type vehicle filled with explosives.

Their reasoning in justifying this DRASTIC CHANGE is nothing short of laughable...they have reasoned, that any larger vehicle (such as a 28 foot Ryder Box Truck) would be spotted and stopped by local police departments before it ever reached the destination of Indian Point.

Now I personally have brought these issues to the attention of the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), even asked these questions AT A PUBLIC FORUM ON THE RECORD, and have constantly been told they would get back to me with answers...SURPRISE SURPRISE, no answers, and they DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. What they have wanted to know, is where I get my information...CAN WE SAY GOOGLE?

So now, lets just assume here, that there has been some catastrophic event at Indian Point, either a significant accident (most likely) or a terrorist attack that has radiological contaminants spewing into our environment, some four hours into the incident, realizing they could not cover it up, sirens activated....

Here is where it gets INTERESTING...even though a Nuclear Reactor facility cannot be licensed without a WORKABLE APPROVED BY FEMA Evacuation Plan, the NRC at public meetings has finally admitted that in the case of a SIGNIFICANT NUCLEAR INCIDENT, the evacuation plan for Indian Point WILL NOT WORK. They instead in the past two years have started trying to reshape PUBLIC EXPECTATIONS with a major propaganda campaign aimed at selling us on the theory of SHELTERING IN PLACE...which has some serious flaws, a plan that will expose us to 60 percent of the contaminants released, even if we are (sic) safely sheltered in our basements in a well built home, and follow ALL THE RULES.

In a previous article in this blog, we have recommended families to NOT SHELTER IN PLACE should there be a real emergency at Indian Point. We are now speculating, that your time to make your escape, the time you have to move your family to a safe place may be far shorter than we had imagined.

What if Homeland Security, Fema, and even the nuclear industry have decided to use barb wire fencing (that can be quickly rolled off a truck and erected, and PORTABLE GUARD TOWERS to (in effect) trap us in a radioactively contaminated CONCENTRATION CAMP? Couple this with an NRC issued Exclusion Zone order to LOCK OUT THE PRESS, and we are trapped in a death camp of Entergy's making.

We are the STAKEHOLDERS AT RISK, the citizens who live within the "Ten Mile Circle of Death" around Indian Point. We should have the right to A) see the DBT for Indian Point, and B) hold public hearings on the adequacy of it. The same can be said regarding the evacuation plan...if the NRC has waived the requirement that their licensees no longer have to evacuate citizens in harms way, have made a decision to force us to SHELTER IN PLACE, then it is time to order their licensees to provide every homeowner with a fully functioning and fully equipped FALL OUT SHELTER. We are calling on Congresswoman Nan Hayworth to demand answers to the important questions in this article, we are calling on her to hold PUBLIC Informational Meetings, and PUBLIC HEARINGS on these issues so that stakeholder communities know the REAL RISKS to both our health and our liberties in the case of a significant nuclear incident at a nuclear reactor site.

As an aside....if Congresswoman Nan Hayworth is prepared to support NEW NUCLEAR, and the HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS IN FUNDING THEY WANT, then she needs to educate herself, instead of spouting out the talking points handed to her by NEI and the industry. I would suggest she start with GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Program) that would defacto make America the dump place for almost the entire world's spent nuclear waste streams...she could start this research at one point....the fact that the new AP1000 reactors that would pave the way to her supposed New Nuclear Era will not even be able to burn the fuel produced under the GNEP program...she can then look at the half trillion dollar gamble that is GNEP, and realize they have not even TESTED IT, but inside want to go right to building an untested, unproved reprocessing plant. She then can look at the fact that what the industry really wants in GNEP, is to reclassify the waste streams currently being (ILLEGALLY) stored at reactor sites into Potential Future Use Resources so that they can sit where they are for perpetuity.

Nan, What is Entergy Hiding...Fire Department KEPT OFF PROPERTY!

READ THIS.....

11/07/2010 19:15:46 Working Fire - Buchanan, NY U/D Car 2491 is advising Entergy Security will not allow Fire Department personnel and apparatus beyond the security gate. They are continuing to stand by at this time. #342781

11/07/2010 19:14:21 Working Fire - Buchanan, NY Entergy employees are currently fighting an active transformer fire in the main bldg. Engine 128 and command are on scene at the gate attempting to gain entry, going through standard security procedures. #342781

7 hours ago via twittermail.com

HEY Nan! Two Entergy Reactors Shut Down One Hour Apart...CAN WE SAY AGING MANAGEMENT ISSUES?

Nan, though you have your Ivy League degree, when it comes to nuclear energy, I have already decided you are a TWIT...yes, a TWIT. In the hopes of educating you, I would suggest you look into License Renewal issues...specifically AGING MANAGEMENT ISSUES, and how much the entire industry does not know about them, specifically how many problems the NRC has pushed off until after they grant their licensees permission to operate these dangerous facilities for another 20 years.

See, the safe operation of these over stressed, aging reactors is totally dependent upon the quality of a Nuclear Company's aging management program...contrary to what Neil Sheehan (nuclear dog and pony show of lies and double speak) will tell you, two ENTERGY reactors going down within one hour of each other was not “complete coincidence”, but a direct result of A) the NRC failing to adequately enforce 10CFR Rules and Regulations, and B) Entergy's woefully inadequate FLEET WIDE AGING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS!

In more alarming than the EXPLODING TRANSFORMER, are the leaking pipes at Vermont Yankee (and both Indian Point reactors). Those leaking pipes can very quickly become PIPE BURSTS that will spew tens if not hundreds of thousands of gallons of irradiated water into the discharge canals (that Entergy DOES NOT HAVE A LEGAL EASEMENT TO USE) and into our beloved Hudson River here in YOUR DISTRICT. Even worst, is that could see a drop in reactor core pressure, thus creating a rapid increase in temperature, thus putting the core of Indian Point into thermal shock...NRC, NEI and the entire nuclear reactor community have admitted they know nothing about this subject, but not to worry, they have promised to FORM A STUDY GROUP at some future date to learn about it.

Making it simple...these VERY BRITTLE REACTOR CORES when subjected to thermal shock COULD SHATTER...hmmmmm....can we say over 500 BILLION DOLLARS in damages to your district?

But you go ahead and ignore these realities Nan, blindly support the nuclear industry...like I always say, "Sadly, the antinuclear grassroots community only needs one MAJOR INCIDENT at an American reactor to show we were right all along...you know, kind of like the BP Oil Spill, or Hurricane Katrina?" You truly are pathetic, and not even in office yet.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/07/transformer-explosion-at-ny-nuclear-power-plant/

Transformer explosion at NY nuclear power plant

BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — A transformer exploded at a nuclear power plant

north of New York City, leading to an emergency shut down of one of its reactors.

An official with the Indian Point plant in Buchanan says no one was injured in Sunday’s explosion.

The plant is owned by Entergy Corp. Company spokesman Jim Steets says no radioactive materials leaked.

He says the transformer was outside and not near the reactor. He said there was no fire despite earlier reports.

Indian Point 2 was shut down after the explosion just after 6:30 p.m. Indian Point 3 was operating normally.

It was the second shutdown within the hour at an Entergy-owned plant.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, Vt., shut down at about 7 p.m. after workers detected radioactive water seeping from a leaky pipe in the complex.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the two shutdowns were “complete coincidence.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/07/transformer-explosion-at-ny-nuclear-power-plant/#ixzz14g2Q6DwK

Nan Hayworth...Nuclear Power Safe Vital and Secure...INDIAN POINT TWO SHUT DOWN...two Entergy Reactors DOWN IN ONE NIGHT

WAKE UP NAN...The second Entergy Reactor in ONE NIGHT IS DOWN...yes you nuclear energy supporting numbnut who thinks Nuclear energy is safe...MAJOR TRANSFORMER FIRE shut down Indian Point 2 tonight, and where are you?

SLEEPING without a care in the world...maybe when you or one of your family is struck down by a Indian Point caused cancer, maybe if one of your children gives birth to a stillborn child (women living near nuclear power plants have increased risk of stillborn children) you will rethink your support of this fatally flawed industry that cannot LEGALLY and ADEQUATELY dispose of its waste streams, has not put one ounce of high level radioactive waste into long term storage!

Before you with your Ivy League education start supporting something, maybe you should adequately INVESTIGATE...your inane video on energy tells the world you are without a CLUE. Looking at your family WEALTH, your self vested interest in wanting to sit on certain committees in Washington DC tells me you are also without morals, nothing more than a demon spawn politician pretending to be human.

Entergy's Vermont Yankee is LEAKING AGAIN...Comment Nan?

So Nan, you back nuclear power, presume here that you back what has amounted to the NRC's rubber stamping relicense program that carries out the DOE's NERAC plan to save the nuclear industry for National Security reasons, regardless of the harm caused to local communities, regardless of the cancer deaths caused by continued operation. Breaking in the news now while you presumably slumber in your Mclain Street home there in Bedford, the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor has shut down once again because the aging embrittled steam pipes are developing additional leaks. Like Indian Point, this ancient behemoth well passed its safe operating life is owned by Entergy...the NRC as it always does, claims NO IMMEDIATE DANGER to the general public (you should read the book by that same title). Surely you have a comment for the press?

Gee Nan, Let's DISCUSS Nuclear Energy and Indian Point

Nan, I already have it FIRST HAND from your Campaign Manager that you FAVOR leaving Indian Point, the trouble plagued cancer causing derelict set of reactors owned and operated by Entergy up and running while we explore all these new energy technologies...yet, when one reviews your video on Nuclear Power, it becomes obvious that you tried to weave NEI talking points together in an attempt to sell Americans on NEW NUCLEAR POWER, pointing out how these new reactors are far safer than the old 30 year old technology. First, the technology at Indian Point and America's other reactors is 50 even 60 year old technology. Secondly, I would like too address some of your talking points.

1. You speak about the need to build new oil refineries because the ones we have are old and outdated, said facilities being 30 plus years old. Do you know how old the Indian Point reactors are? Have you actually study the leaks and problems at this facility?

2. You speak about how much more advanced NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS are...you would be talking about the AP1000...these reactors are BIGGER, but rely on the same flawed technology on which Indian Point and other ancient relics were built. Secondly, they would not be using NEW FUEL, but the same fuel rods as are currently being used at America's 104 dying nuclear reactors.

3. The new fuel you speak of...lets talk about GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Program) and the fuel it MIGHT CREATE. The AP1000 would not even be able to use the supposed new fuel that would be created in reprocessing old fuel rods...in fact, many argue that GNEP is nothing more than a means to reclassify current spent fuel wastes into potential future use resources, thus allowing said wastes to remain ON SITE at their current nuclear reactor sites for periods in excess of 100 years, DEFACTO creating 104 UNLICENSED high level radioactive waste storage dumps across America.

Even worse if you read the fine print...GNEP would allow any country in the world to sign on as a member, and once doing do, receive help in building nuclear reactors, would have their fuel provided by the United States of America, and when said fuel was BURNED UP IN THE REACTORS, the waste streams would be SHIPPED BACK TO AMERICA, thus making our nation the world's nuclear waste STORAGE DUMP.

You suggest that reactors can be placed in areas of the country where any harm to citizens could be MITIGATED...hmmm....NIMBY on steroids....are you thinking we can continue our bigoted and racist siting of reactors in poor communities, rural communities. Do you favor letting poor rural folks die of CANCER, suffer stillborn children so that you and your well heeled neighbors in Bedford can have CHEAP AFFORDABLE NUCLEAR ENERGY? It's ok for them to pay the price of your convenience? What's a few cancer deaths or stillborn children in a poor or rural community when you can have CHEAP POWER? Is that your position Nan Hayworth? The more research on your positions I do the more it seems like you are truly a Sue Kelly clone in every way.