Nuclear Power Generation

Japanese Sushi Is Way Less Radioactive Than British Lobster

​As with anything involving marine life and nuclear reactors, there is bad news, and then there is cold-comfort news.The bad news is, of course, is that Japan's horribly damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant has been dumping radioactive material into the sea, which has made people worry that ... More >>

Klaus Jacob, Columbia Disaster Expert: Why Closing Indian Point Makes Sense

​In October 2008, the Voice profiled Klaus Jacob, Columbia University's expert on urban environmental disasters. In that story, we examined how the Ivy League school had ignored warnings by its own expert about expanding into areas subject to flooding because of climate change. Today we talke ... More >>

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Should Close, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo

​If an earthquake were to hit the New York area, the reactor with the highest risk of damage is Reactor 3 at Indian Point in Westchester, New York, just 24 miles from the Bronx. "The suggestion is that of all the [104] power plants across the country, that the Indian Point power plant is most ... More >>

Indian Point License Threatened Over Water Quality, Dead Fish

​A draft report sent yesterday from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to Entergy, the operators of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant in Buchanan, NY, found that Indian Point's impact on Hudson River sturgeon was serious enough to deny the plant a Water Quality Certificate. Th ... More >>

Indian Point's Woes & Rudy G

It's Nucular

Republicans Plan a Hydrogen Economy—at Your Expense

Nuclear Waste Makes Haste

The Hazardous Roads to Yucca Mountain

Unsafe at Any Price

If Terrorists Take Down Nuclear Plants, You Pay—By the Hundreds of Billions

The Next Attack?

Nuclear Reaction

Critics Force a First-Ever Public Hearing on Indian Point 3 Sale

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