The Nuclear Threat
June, 2002
The Indian Point nuclear power plant is situated just north of Manhattan on the Hudson River. At a press conference outside New York City Hall last November, Robert Kennedy Jr., who heads the legal team for the environmental group Riverkeeper, called for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shut down the reactors "until a full review of the plant's vulnerabilities and safety system is conducted." Activists called the plant a "nuclear bomb 30 miles north of New York City"--a m...
