Sentences with phrase «point nuclear facility»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced earlier this month that the Indian Point Nuclear Facility located in Westchester County, New York will be closed by 2021.

The nearby Turkey Point Nuclear facility which provides energy to the city and a big chunk of South Florida is about 6 feet above the high tide line.

The historically high water levels in Lake Ontario this year have threatened homeowners, municipalities and nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego County.

ALBANY — Hillary Clinton said she wants more review of the Indian Point nuclear facility but stopped short of calling for its closure.

ALBANY — A spike in radioactive groundwater around the Indian Point nuclear facility has prompted elected officials to call again for the plant's closure.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday used another incident at the Indian Point nuclear facility to make the case that the facility should be closed.

Over the past several months there have been a series of serious incidents at the Indian Point Nuclear Facility, which my administration is investigating,» Governor Cuomo said.

Entergy is objecting to the Cuomo administration's investigation of the Indian Point nuclear facility, saying it could violate federal law and amounts to a political witch hunt designed to make Westchester plant look unsafe.

A generating plant at the Indian Point nuclear facility in Westchester County shut down last night, prompting an immediate investigation.

But Entergy Corp., which also owns the Indian Point nuclear facility in Westchester County, has said the FitzPatrick plant is no longer economically viable in today's energy market.

The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point nuclear facility, with a federal regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office today is celebrating a key decision from the federal government that would require the Indian Point nuclear facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.

Cuomo's fashion choice for disasters and emergencies has become a familiar sight for many New Yorkers, whether he's standing on New York City streets flooded after Hurricane Sandy, trudging along a snow - crippled Buffalo highway or issuing statements in front of a burning transformer at the Indian Point nuclear facility.

An official with Entergy said that its decision to close Oswego County's James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant last October is negatively affecting the way state lawmakers view its Indian Point nuclear facility.

«For over 40 years, Entergy's Indian Point nuclear facilities have been damaging the coastal resources of the Hudson River estuary,» the state agency wrote.

Not exact matches

Some of the proposals go beyond what Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has sought when it comes to nuclear power (the state is closing the Indian Point facility in Westchester County while another in central New York will remain open with the aid of subsidy), though many of the issues Nixon has raised are in line with what the state has done.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino announced that he filed two lawsuits to block the proposed closure of the Indian Point nuclear power facility after he failed to get county legislators on board.

The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said — a direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly proposed shutting down Indian Point, the company's nuclear power facility in Westchester County.

At least one of the state's six nuclear reactors may be shuttered, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is aggressively targeting two more, both at the Indian Point facility in Westchester, for closure.

He said Indian Point is fully licensed and should not be considered as separate under the plan from other nuclear facilities.

ALBANY — Saturday night's transformer fire at the Indian Point Energy Center has given Governor Andrew Cuomo his biggest opening yet to question the safety of the Westchester County nuclear facility, whose operation he has long opposed.

«In the wake of Japan's crisis, our country's nuclear facilities should be bolstering their safety measures, yet Indian Point is looking to weaken its precautionary measures,» Schneiderman said in a press release.

Cuomo has been skeptical of nuclear power elsewhere in the state, including the Entergy - owned Indian Point facility in Westchester County, which the governor has urged federal regulators to deny a new license for the plant.

Schneiderman had sought the stipulation in the ongoing battle over the re-licensing of the Westchester - based Indian Point facility after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided to not require the environmental impact study, his office said.

Indian Point, the Westchester County - based nuclear plant on the Hudson River, is running a series of 60 - second radio spots in the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami that again raised concerns over safety at the aging facility.

New York will investigate the Indian Point Energy Center after Cuomo said he learned that «radioactive tritium - contaminated water» leaked into the groundwater at the nuclear facility in Westchester County.

Sen. Terrence Murphy may launch an investigation into the Cuomo administration's agreement with Entergy to close the Indian Point nuclear plant unless questions he has about the deal are answered, including how local governments will replace the tax revenue they'll lose once the facility closes.

She said Cuomo has been a «huge part» of where the state is now: Indian Point's owner Entergy is now considering selling the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County to Exelon, which owns the nearby Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear facilities.

«Indian Point has been something that's been difficult for the governor, but given where we are now, I would have to say I want to give him an even bigger thank you for looking at the bigger picture knowing that it's important to making sure we keep 615 jobs at that facility [FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant],» said state Sen. Patty Ritchie (R - Owegatchie).

Miller said the other upstate nuclear power plants, Nine Mile Point facility in Oswego County and Ginna in nearby Rochester, performed similarly.

The owner of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County, which is scheduled to be closed starting in January, is in discussions to sell the plant to Exelon, owner of the nearby Nine Mile Point facility.

ALBANY — The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said, in a notably direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.

New York has six nuclear reactors spread over four facilities, including two each at Indian Point in Westchester County and Nine Mile outside of Rochester.

ALBANY — The Indian Point nuclear center had more degraded bolts than any nuclear facility ever tested in the nation, according to the Nuclear Energy Commnuclear center had more degraded bolts than any nuclear facility ever tested in the nation, according to the Nuclear Energy Commnuclear facility ever tested in the nation, according to the Nuclear Energy CommNuclear Energy Commission.

The governor has clashed with Entergy over the company's effort to extend the life of its profitable Indian Point nuclear plant, the other facility it acquired in 2000 from the power authority.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

A transformer exploded at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Facility in Westchester on Saturday.

Lawmakers will also dig into a proposal to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, a plan that delights critics of the aging facility and worries others concerned about lost jobs and power.

ALBANY — State Sen. Terrence Murphy says he may launch an investigation into the Cuomo administration's agreement with Entergy to close the Indian Point nuclear plant unless questions he has about the deal are answered, including how local governments will replace the tax revenue they'll lose once the facility closes.

The point was to prove that a nuclear power facility could be built as cheaply as a coal - fired power plant, and the key to that was a smaller safety system.

The starting point for any country that wants to include nuclear energy in its generation mix is to require a political and «social» operating licence for utilities running nuclear plants and facilities.

Energy experts have long pointed to bureaucratic inefficiencies holding back nuclear energy projects, but the now - abandoned Mixed Oxide, or MOX, the project illustrates just how expensive building these facilities has become.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and others have pressed to close the nearby Indian Point nuclear power plant, but the mayor said city residents get more than 8 percent of their electricity from the facility and lack a ready substitute.

The main point of the discussion was Yucca Mountain, a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada that took years and billions of dollars to research and build, that is a completely safe location to store commercial nuclear waste, but which sits empty for political reasons.

He was only pointing out that in the last 50 years we have not been able to summon the political will to put our nuclear waste in a proper long term facility.