FEMA: Indian Point's new sirens inadequate
By GREG CLARY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: September 13, 2007)

BUCHANAN - Indian Point's new $15 million emergency siren system won't receive federal approval until the nuclear plant can prove that the replacements are reliable and will sound at volumes loud and steady enough to meet federal standards.

In a strongly worded eight-page letter loaded with decibel standards and test result analysis, the Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday said the warning system is inadequate.
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The agency went so far as to note that Indian Point's documentation indicated to federal officials that the company "admits the sirens as installed and tested do not meet the design objectives ... and rather than take corrective action, Entergy is willing to have a system that does not meet its own emphatically stated objectives, as long as FEMA will allow them to."

That'll Show 'Em !!

FEDS SUSPEND INSPECTION AT INDIAN POINT 3
By GREG CLARY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: September 11, 2007)
BUCHANAN - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has suspended an inspection at Indian Point 3 after federal experts found plant officials unprepared to answer questions about a series of unplanned shutdowns that led the agency to lower the reactor's safety rating in April.
"They just didn't have the documentation we needed," said NRC regional spokesman Neil Sheehan, noting that such suspensions are rare. "But also, the types of questions we are asking, they did not have answers for at this point."
Entergy Nuclear Northeast, which owns and operates Indian Point, sent a letter Friday to the NRC requesting a delay, two days after the NRC pulled its special inspectors out of a review that normally takes weeks to complete.

Is that the way to commemorate Nine/Eleven or What?