As New York’s governor and other critics wage an ongoing campaign to shut the facility down citing leaks and outmoded age,nearby residents explain complicated taleOutside the Westchester Diner in Peekskill, New York, or approximately 40 miles from New 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 middle, 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 close down a facility that only final month dumped a plume of radioactive waste into their groundwater.
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Source: theguardian.com