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Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 2, LLC, Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 3, LLC, Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3 (IP2 and IP3); Receipt of Request for Action Under 10 CFR 2.206 Notice is hereby given that by petition dated March 30, 2008, Mr. Sherwood Martinelli has requested that the NRC (1) ``* * * suspend the license for IP2 and IP3 reactors located in Buchanan, NY owned by Entergy until they are fully in compliance with all 10 CFR Rules and Regulations, as well as other local, state and federal laws and regulations, and have eliminated the environmental risks that have contributed to, and/or caused my wife's breast cancer,'' and (2) ``* * * halt the License Renewal Process.''

White Plains, NY - The latest version of the Indian Point Emergency Planning Guide is being mailed out starting this week to Westchester residents and businesses within the ten-mile Emergency Planning Zone around the nuclear power plants. The booklet includes an updated map that lists evacuation routes, reception centers, bus routes and critical information about school relocation.

In the Matter of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc; Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 2, LLC; (Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit No. 1); Order Approving Indirect Transfer of Facility Operating License

Radioactive strontium 90 has been found in trace amounts in a monitoring well next to Indian Point for the second time in little more than a year. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission spoke with county officials and others in an afternoon conference call today with Entergy, so the company could detail the preliminary test results it found during routine well sampling on the property, according to NRC documents obtained by The Journal News.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is revising its schedule for the issuance of two reports that are central to the agency's review of the license renewal application for the Indian Point nuclear power plant. The documents are the draft Safety Evaluation Report (SER) and the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the application. Release of the draft SER will be extended by approximately four months for several reasons. They include additional time required to review supplemental information provided by the plant's owner, Entergy; time devoted by the license renewal review staff to responding to an unusually large number of contentions filed by those seeking a hearing on the application; and the staff's efforts to address, in reviews currently under way, issues raised by the agency's Office of Inspector General in a report on the NRC's license renewal program. As a result of the schedule change, the NRC now expects to issue the draft SER in early January.

Federal regulators will delay a decision on renewing Indian Point's license to operate for an additional four months, to allow for more time to evaluate safety and environmental issues. A decision was expected within 22 to 30 months from the date of application by the company, which wants to continue operating at the Buchanan site until 2035. The current license would required shutting down the plant in 2015, if an extension is not granted.

Workers at Indian Point nuclear power plant have loaded the fifth and final canister of spent fuel from the Unit 1 Spent Fuel Pool onto the outdoor storage pad. The canister contains the last of the spent fuel from the Unit 1 pool. Officials said removal of the fuel from the pool eliminates the source of Strontium-90 and other radioactive contaminants in the pool water and ultimately the groundwater.

THE panel of outside experts hired by Entergy Nuclear to review operations at Indian Point, part of the company's campaign to improve its image as it seeks a 20-year license extension, found generally that the plant complied with minimum standards, but picked out one "very visible exception," the emergency sirens.

The lines in Indian Point's relicensing battle were more clearly drawn yesterday and a few combatants were eliminated. A special board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it would entertain debate on 15 of the 154 separate challenges to the nuclear plant's application to keep making electricity in Buchanan until 2035.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given its thumbs-up for Entergy Corp. to spin off its nuclear power plants, including the two at Indian Point in Buchanan, into a new and separate company. The federal Energy Regulatory Commission had already given its green light, so the NRC approval was anticipated. Fortunately, vetting of the major restructuring continues. Unanswered questions remain about the implications of the arrangement on state coffers, taxpayers and the future obligations of the plants. New York officials, including Assembly member Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, are pressing for answers to those questions; required state approvals should be held in abeyance until clear answers are had.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y., has a long history of problems, including radioactive water leaking from its aging fuel pools and emergency sirens that regularly fail in tests. About a billion fish are also killed each year when the plant sucks water from the Hudson River to cool its enormous condensers.

A new study from the Earth Institute at Columbia University says there's more seismic activity around the Big Apple than previously thought. Researchers also say they discovered a new active fault line running from Stamford, Conn., 25 miles (40.2 kilometers) west toward the Hudson River. There, this underground fault intersects with another fault line. Sitting on top of that intersection is the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Scary stuff perhaps? Maybe-but big earthquakes still remain geologically unlikely around New York City.

The huge numbers of fish sucked to their death by the cooling system at the Indian Point nuclear plant prove that the system harms the Hudson River environment, a state official has ruled. The finding by J. Jared Snyder, assistant commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, is a victory for plant critics who claim that up to 1.2 billion fish and eggs are killed each year as the plant continuously draws in river water for use as a coolant.

A nuclear power plant that lies within commuting distance of New York City is more likely to be shaken by an earthquake than previously thought because it sits atop a newly identified intersection of two active seismic zones, scientists said. The Indian Point nuclear reactor is within a mile or two of both a seismic zone running from Stamford, Connecticut, to Peekskill, New York, and the Ramapo seismic line, said the study by seismologists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Neither a group of environmental organizations nor a labor union have grounds to contest Entergy's plan to spin off six of its nuclear reactors into a new company, stated the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a ruling issued Aug. 22. Because they have no standing, wrote the NRC, their petition to intervene in the license transfer of nuclear power plants in Vernon, Oswego and Buchanan, N.Y., Plymouth, Mass., and Covert Township, Mich., was denied.

A handful of citizen groups and residents of Massachusetts and Vermont are urging the Bay State's attorney general to not give up on forcing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to change the way it evaluates the risks of spent fuel storage at Pilgrim, Indian Point and Vermont Yankee nuclear power plants. Earlier this month, the NRC denied a request by attorneys general from Massachusetts and New York that it consider changing its review methods.

License Nos. DPR-26 and DPR-64; Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 2, LLC; Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 3, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206 Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) has issued a Director's Decision with regard to a petition dated June 25, 2007, filed by Mr. Sherwood Martinelli on behalf of Friends United for Sustainable Energy (FUSE)

The nuclear power plant closest to America's largest city is more likely to be hit by an earthquake than previously thought because it sits atop a newly identified intersection of two active seismic zones, earthquake scientists warned today. The Indian Point nuclear power plant, with its two nuclear generating units, is situated 24 miles north of New York City, on the Hudson River at Buchanan, New York.

Two sessions have been scheduled over the course of the next two weeks regarding issues related to the Indian Point nuclear power plant. The Indian Point Independent Safety Evaluation Panel will present the findings of its study at a public session on Thursday, July 31 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt Manor. The panel was hired by Indian Point to conduct a complete safety review of the plant.

Indian Point, Unlicensed Abortion Clinic? Living less than three miles from the antiquated, leaking twin reactors of Indian Point, I am not a big fan of Con Edison, Entergy or nuclear energy. On another blog that is currently inactive I have gone to great lenths to expose the risks of this fatally flawed industry, and American's dangerous aging fleet of nuclear reactors which the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has been wrongfully rubberstamping in a fixed (as in rigged) licensing renewal process. My claims that the pro-nuclear side have labeled as the rantings of a mad man are being given a great deal of legitimacy in light of the admissions in the news that Celsium 137 has been leaking into the environment at a long term storage facility in Germany.