Last week there was a 'mishap' at the Indian Point nuclear power plant forty miles north of New York City. Turns out an underground pipe leaked 100,000 gallons of water that would be used to cool the reactor in case it overheated.

Back in March, Indian Point was given the fifth consecutive top safety rating by federal regulators. If the safest nuke plant our country has is leaking 100,000 gallons of cooling water, it's time to move on from this ridiculous energy source.

I'm asking you today to join me in calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reject a proposal to keep Indian Point open for another twenty years: 

http://www.environmental-action.org/no-more-indian-point?id4=ES

This incident reminded me of my first experience with environmental activism. I was fourteen, and New York State proposed a nuclear waste storage facility eight miles from my high school. My friends and teachers and I went to town hall meetings, protests, and wrote letters. Eventually we won, and the proposal was shelved. But it was a hollow victory.

I realized the waste would have to go somewhere. If not my town then someone else's. Outside of the potential of a meltdown and the safety systems to fail (thanks to one small hole in one pipe), there's the reality that nuclear waste is toxic for tens of thousands of years. 

Please join me in calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and tell them no more Indian Power Plant. 

http://www.environmental-action.org/no-more-indian-point?id4=ES

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