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April 5, 2010

Indian Point Nuclear Plant Denied Key Permit
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Here in New York, opponents of the Indian Point nuclear power plant have
won a major victory. The state’s Department of Environmental
Conservation has refused to grant the plant a critical water quality
certification needed for the plant’s two reactors to stay open. The
state said the power plant’s water-intake system kills nearly a billion
aquatic organisms a year and that radioactive material had polluted the
Hudson River after leaking into the groundwater. Opponents of the plant
said they hope this ruling could lead to the plant’s closing. State
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky of Westchester said, “This is the beginning
of the end of this massive destruction of the river.”



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