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May 12, 2015

New York: Oil Leaks from Nuclear Power Plant After Explosion 
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Here in New York, an unknown amount of oil has leaked into the Hudson
River following an explosion and fire at the Indian Point nuclear power
plant in Buchanan, north of New York City. A transformer fire over the
weekend in a non-nuclear section of the plant caused a holding tank to
overflow, spilling thousands of gallons of oil. The fire marks at least
the third at the plant in the past eight years. The Riverkeeper clean
water advocacy group said in a statement, "Indian Point has a long,
disturbing history of operational and environmental problems. The
plant’s aging infrastructure has caught up to it and we must see that
it is closed or these problems will only worsen with potentially
catastrophic results."

 

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