Updated: Indian Point's emergency sirens all sound, 10 days before NRC deadline

Updated: Indian Point's emergency sirens all sound, 10 days before NRC deadline
By GREG CLARYTHE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: August 14, 2007)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy set the deadline for installing a new siren system for Indian Point. The headline on an earlier version of this article misstated the federal agency involved.BUCHANAN - After several failures over the past few months, all of Indian Point's sirens sounded loud and clear during a test of the nuclear power plant's emergency notification system this morning.
Federal officials watching over five different locations in four counties verified that all 155 sirens sounded during the four-minute test at 10:30 a.m.
The sirens are spread across the parts of Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Orange counties that fall within a 10-mile radius of the nuclear power plant.
Six sirens had failed during a test attempted Saturday, resulting in a 96 percent success rate.
The success comes just 10 days before the third federal deadline to get the plant's sirens working. Federal emergency management officials observed the tests at five locations throughout the 10-mile emergency zone around the plant.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given Entergy Nuclear, Indian Point's owner and operator, until Aug. 24 to get the sirens working properly.
Entergy had agreed to install a $15 million alert system in the fall of 2005. The company received a 75-day extension from the NRC after regulators agreed that the project needed more time than the Jan. 30, 2007, deadline allowed.
But the agency wasn't as forgiving after the company missed an April 15 deadline, fining Entergy $130,000 and requiring a plan to finish the project by Aug. 24.
The sirens can't necessarily be heard inside homes or offices, especially if air conditioning is on.
Check back for updates at LoHud.com or read more in tomorrow's Journal News.


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Ahhhh... listening to the Mike Kansler groupies chirp and purrr! Fame is such an aphrodisiac! Mike IS actually kind of hunky, in a sinister, Gone With The Wind kind of way! MMMMMMM! So a tsunami is not comparable because you can't regulate it beforehand?How about reinforced concrete overlays on the Kensico dam face, remaking all the east to west roads leading out of the Bronx River Valley, and a set of 300 or so tsunami alert sirens down along the course of the Bronx River, along with an automated reset of all the traffic lights in the tsunami path? (The 9 counties around San Francisco HAVE such a system). But No.... we can't do that, because RFKjr hasn't thought of it yet, and written a Rolling Stone article. Chernobyl, where peacenik tour guides now lead daily eco-tours, made up of antinukers like you, is once again big business. People are doing daily hunting trips into the exclusion area, because game has rebounded to pre-WWI proportions. Old people who never left, still live there, and only 1500 case of thyroid cancer were ever reported, and even they are not directly attributable to Chernobyl, but merely to the fact that nobody ever counted thyroid cancer cases in Byelorussia before. That mild kind of cancer is 100% curable, so no deaths at all resulted from them. The 31 people who died at Chernobyl were firemen fighting the fire. 31 people die every day from traffic accidents in the state of California. 1,000,000 people die in China each year from the result of burning coal. Chernobyl was a badly designed badly run RBMK reactor, a type which is now forbidden, and it never had any safety systems or any containment. It had a flammable graphite core (IPEC has water) and therefore could burn, spreading radiation. IPEC cannot burn, IPEC has a water moderated core, IPEC has safety systems, IPEC has a containment, and IPEC was designed by Westinghouse for God's sake not by Nishtalya from Ozersk. I believe, intellectually and philosophically speaking, you DO live inside a centrifuge in Ozersk! A centrifuge spun by Bobby Kennedy and his thimerasol bullshit, and his prepping his audience to vote for him in 2008. I believe you ought to leave the centrifuge, clear your head, and come out into the light, where the rest of us around here are having a pretty good life.
Posted by: VP_VP on Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:35 am

Actually Ed, I beleive Kansler was recently transferred to Jackson, Mississippi. ( it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud ). Leaving God knows who in charge of Indian Point. However, I beleive PEON does operate out of a centrifuge in Ozersk. 1776: the directors cutPosted by: ball on Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:10 am
Christ, they're living in Lousiana! I'd rather live inside a centrifuge in Ozersk.
Posted by: ed on Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:26 pm

Listen Ed ( or any other open minded non-PEONs out there ) all you have to do is ask yourself this : If Indian Point is such a SAFE and BEAUTIFUL place, why don't J WAYNE LEORNARD and MICHAEL KANSLER reside within the TEN MILE RADIUS? J WAYNE LEONARD C E O ENTERGY HEADQUATERS 639 LOYOLA AVE NEW ORLEANS, LA 70113 PHONE: 504-576-4000 FAX: 504-576-4428 PLUTONIUM IS FOREVER!
Posted by: ball on Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:11 pm

Oh, I see, YOU guarantee it. Who in hell are you, Nostradamus? What do I think CAN happen from this place? This: Granted, Chernobyl was run by a bunch of nitwitws. But, I've noticed more than a few over here and many of them in high places. The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization, attributed 56 direct deaths and estimated there may be 4000 extra deaths due to cancer among the 6.6 million most highly exposed. Specifically, the report cited 4000 thyroid cancer cases among children diagnosed by 2002. Your tsunami comparison is ridiculous since there is little you can do beforehand to negate a tsunami. Capisca?
Posted by: ed on Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:26 pm