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Congressman Eliot Engel urged the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to deny Indian Point's application for relicensing, saying the reactors at the Buchanan plant continue to have too many serious issues to ignore. Engel met with Dale Klein, commissioner of the NRC, in his Washington office telling him, "Indian Point would never be built today at its present location because of its proximity to the millions of people in the New York metropolitan area. It is degrading the Hudson River by using its water, some two billion gallons daily, to cool the plant, and by the radioactive leakages that may have already reached the river." Engel also told Klein the site is "a very tempting target for terrorist" and there are "too many other serious issues about the dangers of Indian Point's nuclear reactors to ignore."