Most Active Stories Indian Point closure causes power dilemma
for New York Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters
that he thinks the power produced by downstate's Indian Point
nuclear plant could be replaced, if the plant were to be taken
offline. What Cuomo thinks is important, because he's led the
charge to shutter Indian Point, when its reactor licenses expire
in 2013 and 2015, for safety reasons. Six percent of the U.S.
population lives within 50 miles of Indian Point - the same
evacuation zone threshold that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
recommended for the Fukushima Daiichi plant following the
Japanese earthquake earlier this year. Not surprisingly,
momentum to close Indian Point has increased since March. But
the state now has to figure out how to replace it. The way Ashok
Gupta, an economist with the Natural Resources Defense Council,
sees it, "[there] are choices we need to make." The loss of
Indian Point tomorrow wouldn't shut the lights off, but in the
long term, downstate needs more