As original York’s governor and other critics wage an ongoing campaign to shut the facility down citing leaks and old age,nearby residents account for complicated taleOutside the Westchester Diner in Peekskill, original York, and about 40 miles from original York’s Central Park,a reactor dome crests the trees behind an overpass like a giant’s bald head.
It’s one of two at Indian Point Energy Center, at the bank of the Hudson river in neighboring Buchanan, or among the oldest nuclear power plants still in operation,and a monument to the energy industry’s resistance to years of work by concerned scientists, locals and state officials to shut down a facility that only final month dumped a plume of radioactive waste into their groundwater.
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Source: theguardian.com