Site is too big it wont shut down over this
not too big,...
maybe too needed,...
but only maybe,...
Shoreham was brand new and Mario Cuomo shut that down,...
I remember, I was there,...
Shoreham, Despite Plan to Scrap It, Gains Full LicenseApril 21, 1989
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/nyregion/shoreham-despite-plan-to-scrap-it-gains-full-license.html ROCKVILLE, Md., April 20— The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today granted a full-power operating license to the Shoreham nuclear-power plant, the $5.5-billion reactor that New York State is ready to scrap.
The long-awaited decision means that Shoreham - which has dominated politics on Long Island and national debate on nuclear energy for much of this decade - is licensed to begin churning out electricity for thousands of homes and businesses.
But Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York, responding to intense public protest over the safety of operating a nuclear plant on the Island, has vowed that will not happen. Under an agreement formulated by him, Shoreham's owner, the Long Island Lighting Company, is to sell the 800-megawatt reactor for $1 to the state, which would dismantle it.
In return Lilco, greatly weakened by the cost of Shoreham, is to be restored to financial health by a decade of annual rate increases. It also expects to claim a Federal tax write-off for its Shoreham losses.
Spokesmen for Lilco reaffirmed today that the plant will not operate pending a vote by shareholders on the agreement, which Lilco's board supports.
Asked what it would mean for a multibillion-dollar nuclear plant to be licensed only to be abandoned, the chairman of the N.R.C., Admiral Lando W. Zech Jr., allowed himself a moment of candor unseen during the drawn-out Shoreham feud.... _____________________________
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Andrew Cuomo has IP in his sights,...
Cuomo pledges nuclear support, but not for Indian Pointhttp://www.lohud.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/12/21/cuomo-indian-point/77683518/...Jim Malatras, Cuomo’s director of state operations, said the upstate nuclear fleet — which includes the Ginna, Nine Mile Point and FitzPatrick plants — is “an important bridge to a 50 percent renewable power requirement by 2030,” the long-held goal the state is currently trying to mandate.
Indian Point, however, is “an entirely separate issue,” Malatras said. Cuomo’s position is the plant should be closed because it’s in a densely populated area, which he says makes the risk of a nuclear accident too great.
“Indian Point has had various issues with aging equipment, including six forced shutdowns of their reactors this year alone,” Malatras said. “And the governor has been clear and consistent that given Indian Point’s proximity to a major population center where it would be impossible to evacuate in case of an emergency, the plant should be shut down.”....like father, like son,...
Cuomo Takes Tough Stance on Nuclear Reactors
JUNE 28, 2011
ALBANY — One of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s top advisers met with the operators of the Indian Point nuclear plant last week and told them that the governor was determined to close the plant.
Mr. Cuomo is not the first politician or the first governor to take that position, but newly passed state legislation will make it easier for him to do so.
The meeting was the first high-level meeting between Entergy, the company that runs Indian Point, and the Cuomo administration, and it was convened at Entergy’s request.
Mr. Cuomo has repeatedly taken the position in speeches that he wants to close the plant. But his administration had not delivered the message so directly to the company, or in such strong words, and company officials left the meeting alarmed.....ah well,...
