Save the Hudson River from Holtec’s Radioactive Wastewater Dumping!
[Photo from a past Indian Point NRC public meeting, which helped achieve the shutdowns for good at Unit 2 in 2020, and Unit 3 in 2021.]
Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer at Fairewinds, to speak at New York State Department of Public Service Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight Board’s Thursday, April 25, 2024 Meeting, 6-8:30pm, re: Holtec’s scheme to dump tritium (radioactive hydrogen) into the Hudson River
On the date and time of the joint meeting, participants and members of the public may attend the meeting in person or virtually as follows:
LOCATION: Cortlandt Town Hall
1 Heady Street
Cortlandt, NY 10567
TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY:
Electronic Access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82658293736?pwd=aHNJTnZNWTR5SzBqMnNuSHRaamVpZz09 or
go to www.zoom.us/join and enter the meeting information below.
Webinar ID: 82658293736
Passcode: 566790
Phone-Only Access: 1-929-205-6099
Passcode: 566790
From: “Santosh Nandabalan, Food & Water Watch” <[email protected]>
Last year, we stopped radioactive waste from being dumped into the Hudson River. But just today, Holtec International, the company in charge of decommisioning the Indian Point nuclear plant, announced it’s suing the State of New York instead exploring options to safely contain this waste on-site.
Rally with us outside of Cortlandt Town Hall next Thursday, April 25, to call out Holtec on its lawsuit and make sure we truly keep this radioactive waste on-site and out of our air and water!
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It’s clear that Holtec is acting in bad faith, putting their own profits before the people of New York. The entire Hudson Valley region relies on the River as a major economic resource for tourism and recreation — dumping toxic waste into those waters or elsewhere just isn’t right.
What: Rally for On-Site Storage of Radioactive Wastewater at Indian Point
When: Thursday, April 25, at 4:45 p.m.
Where: Outside Cortlandt Town Hall, 1 Heady Street, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567
After the rally, there will be a oversight board meeting featuring nuclear engineer and decommissioning expert Arnie Gundersen. Join us inside for the meeting to learn one way we can achieve safe on-site storage of this wastewater and show agency representatives that we’ll hold our leaders accountable for a safe decommissioning of Indian Point.
Nuclear energy has a waste problem, and Indian Point has over a million gallons of radioactive wastewater currently held at the facility. Burning that waste, evaporating it, or simply transporting it elsewhere to be dumped are all dangerous options and they should be off the table. The only viable option at the moment is to safely contain the nuclear waste on-site while it decays and becomes less radioactive.
Holtec can sue New York, but they can’t win just because they don’t like being told what to do. We need to come out strong on Thursday to let Holtec and state leaders know we won’t stand for this radioactive waste in our Hudson River or anywhere that threatens the economic and environmental well-being of us all!
Hope to see you there!
Santosh
Santosh Nandabalan
Senior Organizer
Food & Water Watch
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This week’s episode is focused on nuclear waste, decommissioning, and the decommissioning oversight board hearing the next day, seeking to educate listeners and activate them on this issue.
The guests will include Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear; Nancy Vann, Safe Energy Rights Group; and Tina Volz-Bongar, Indian Point and Holtec watchdog.
Also, see a backgrounder written by Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps in July 2010 (and updated in 2012), about highly radioactive waste pool leaks, including at Indian Point (so a significant source of tritium contaminating soil and groundwater, at risk of polluting the Hudson River, bio-concentrating in the fisheries, etc. if not cleaned up). This backgrounder was requested by anti-nuclear activists at Fukushima Daiichi, before the catastrophe began in March 2011!
https://beyondnuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pool-leaks-fact-sheet-updated-10-19-2012.pdf
In its 2014 Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel GEIS (Generic Environmental Impact Statement), NRC documented 13 leaking pools in the U.S. See Appendix E – Analysis of Spent Fuel Pool Leaks at: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1419/ML14196A105.pdf.
Also, see Dr. Arjun Makhijani of IEER’s 2023 book, Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides: https://ieer.org/resource/books/exploring-tritim-dangers/
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