News article on nuclear plant evacuation plans, Oct 2002

NYC-WTC_000141757 NYC 9/11 F Public Portal Document Evacuation plan near nuclear plant deemed unrealisfíc • County executives are under fire for signing off on it *: The long-criticized plan has at- resolved to ask the federal gov- corce the closing ot the plamts, are tracted closer scrutiny since the ernment to close the power sta-trying to prove there is no worke? .attack onithe World Trade Center tion, saying it is vulnerable torag able evacuation plan. raised the possibility of an air terrorist attack and the evacua- Brodsky and» environmentalist borne terrorist assault on the nus ttion plan isnt adequatem 3 Robert F. Kennedy Jri had asked clear plants. We are sending a message that ithe county executives -West By JIM FITZGERALD ASSOCIATED PRESS Critics say thereare toomany the safety and the security of ourk chester's Andrew :Spano, Rock- people and too few roads away residents.is of the utmost impor- land's C. Scott Vanderhoef, Put- from' Indian Point. Many find it tance," said Legislator Harriet nam's Robert Bondi and Orange's ELMSFORD, N.Y. - County ex: unlikely that buş drivers assigned Cornell, who introduced the reso- Edward Diana- to talk with ecutives in the emergency zone to take schoolchildren out of a lution. them before sighing olfr around the Indian Point nuclear contaminated: area would really power plants ignored reality S More than: 20municipalities In addition, Westchester Legis- and the wishes of many residents venture in, or that parents would have signed similar resolutions, Wlator Thomas Abinanți had asked - when they signed off on/ a follow instructions to stay out of and the Westchester County Legis- Spano to hold off, "flawed, unrealistic" plan, a state assemblyman said: evacuation evaçuäte their children. the area and let the government lature is considering one. : Butthe county executives The evacuation plan is a key re Sjagreed Tuesday to declare to the yesterday. The two nuclear plants are in quirement for any nuclear plant state that they have an,evacuation the Westchester Village of Bu- *plan designed to protect the pub- "The plan simply cannot be said chanar, 35 miles north of miatown the county executives who have. lic. In 'a letter/to BrodskyliSpano Manhattan territory within 10%miles ofnthe said he believes the plan "is de examining the evacuation plan. nies that is supposed to go into the danger zone told Brodsky's com- "mittee that the evacuation plan is ¡ "a fairy tale." In a.unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Rockland Legistature then uses those assurances in re safety." porting its readiness to the Fed-t "If you want to close down the eral Emergency Management plant, have" a debate," Spano Agency. spokeswoman Susan: Tolchin said The process had attracted little yesterday. "Don't use the response attention before Sept. 11. Now plan as a pawn in your efforts to many activists, some hoping to close down the plant." SIAdVanCO 117•00