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CONSOLIDATED EDISON FACILITY AT INDIAN POINT

Pages and information added or changed 03/09/00
CONTINUING COVERAGE as a result of February 15, 2000!
This page and future related pages are to be an ongoing feature because what happens at Indian Point could, and does affect everyone who lives within the radius of this facility. Trouble with the plant can effect property values, and cause tension resulting from the condition of the two plants.

NRC proposes $88k fine on Con Ed for unrelated August 31, 1999 "shutdown", bringing to $513,000 in fines for Indian Point #2 since 1996. Check below because the plant's emergency backup systems were on batteries which went out!!!
History of the plants 03/09/00 very interesting; a must read!
Latest update & information 03/15/00 includes information from insiders, meetings and general press!
Indian Point #1 has been shut down for many years due to its age and is in a continual state of decay due to the constant bombardment of radio activity on the steel and concrete containment vessels.
Indian Point #2 Check NEXT PAGE for extended information and followup; Leaks had been known and occurring since last October 1999. Also information about the Thiells Fault lines which run under the "Three Sisters"; Past August 31 "automatic shutdown" of facility when "backup" generators failed & batteries lost power knocking out control pannels & aux equipment to keep reactors "cool"! Only three (3) level #2 alarms have ever been given in U.S. before!
Indian Point #3 This similar 975 megawatt generator went online in 1976 and is licensed to operate until 2015 and was reported as sold this February 2000 for 638 million + 168 million for fule to Entergy Corp. based in New Orleans, LA.
Pictures of the "Nukes" showing the footprint upon the upper Haverstraw Bay.
Pictures of the "Nukes" additional shots. Updated 3/15/00
Charts/Maps of the area Nautical layouts showing the Thiells Fault next to the "Three Sisters"!
Cortlandt Meeting 02/28/00 with Con Ed representives; see coverage.

Indian Point #2 Shutdown!
View of the Indian Point reactors as seen from upper Haverstraw Bay looking SW from above Ansville Circle. Click on picture for exploded view.
February end of month weekend NRC proposes $88k fine on Con Ed for unrelated August 31, 1999 "shutdown", bringing to $513,000 in fines for Indian Point #2 since 1996. The Journal News reported that the plant had a "false" signal from one of the sensors in the reactor's "protection system" which shut down the plant automatically which then caused the plant to rely on three diesel generators to supply power to keep the plant running, but that there were problems which kept the "backup" generators from functioning and that left the plant operating on Batteries.

The Journal News stated: "When the batteries began to run down, the control room lost many of the alarm panels connected to safety equipment, the NRC said. Some of the backup safety equipment itself - including an auxiliary system that feeds cooling water into the reactor, and a pressure-operated relief valve - also lost power, according to the NRC."

Shortly we will be adding information about the Nukes and the potential problems they pose as the old shut down facilities continue to deteioriate and we still do not know what to do with the waste after all these years. One major problem is with the steel and concrete breakdown from the constant radioactivity. Excerpts will shortly be posted here from the book "We almost lost Detroit". Stay Linked! (still looking for my book 2/28/00 which is no longer in print)

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