So asks WNYC, regarding Holtec International's proposal to take over the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, upstream of New York City on the Hudson River, in order to dismantle the reactors after they close in the next two years, clean up the severe radioactive contamination, and manage vast quantities of high-level radioactive waste stored on-site there.
As reported by the USA Today Network, many local residents deeply distrust Holtec because of the many skeletons in its closet.
Holtec's Canadian decommissioning partner, SNC-Lavalin, has many skeletons in its closet as well, including the company recently pleading guilty to fraud, being fined $280 million, and placed on a three year probation; a former executive was just convicted of fraud and corruption, and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
How can this consortium be trusted with more than $2 billion in the decommissioning trust fund at Indian Point?
How can Holtec be trusted to safely transport irradiated nuclear fuel from U.S. reactors like Indian Point, across the country, to its proposed consolidated interim storage facility in New Mexico?
How can Holtec be trusted to operate the CISF safely?
Beyond Nuclear is part of a broad coalition actively resisting Holtec's CISF licensing by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Unlikely allies in this fight -- Fasken Oil and Ranch, and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners -- just filed a major legal motion opposed to Holtec's CISF with the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Learn what you can do to help stop Holtec's de facto permanent, surface storage, "parking lot dump" in New Mexico, and the 10,000 Mobile Chernobyls, Dirty Bombs on Wheels, Floating Fukushimas, and Mobile X-ray Machines That Can't Be Turned Off that its opening would launch through most states.
Learn more about centralized storage, Yucca Mountain, and waste transportation, at our website.