Cortlandt, Buchanan To Host Meeting On Indian Point

CORTLANDT, NY — The town of Cortlandt and village of Buchanan will host an Indian Point Local Community Unit Task Force meeting.

The session will be held via Zoom at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Cortlandt Supervisor Linda Puglisi, Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker and Hendrick Hudson School Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter will chair the meeting.

Officials said the purpose of the meeting will be to update the community on the recent closing of Indian Point.

Representatives from Holtec International, the decommissioning company, Entergy Corporation, the current owner, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the state Public Service Commission have been invited to participate.

Town staff from the legal, assessor, comptroller and engineer departments will also be present.

The meeting may be viewed via Zoom, but there will not be any public participation. The public is, however, invited to send questions and comments to this email.

Indian Point Energy Center is no longer producing electricity. It operated from 1962 to 2021.

Unit 1 was permanently shut down in 1974. Unit 2 stopped producing electricity April 30, 2020, and Unit 3 was shut down April 30.

Units 2 and 3 averaged about 17 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year, or about 25 percent of the power used annually in Westchester County and New York City, according to a spokesperson.

The state announced an agreement for decommissioning and cleaning up the plant.

The joint proposal, which is subject to approval by the state Public Service Commission, was negotiated by the state, environmental organizations, Entergy and Holtec.

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When: May 20, 2021, 07 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Indian Point Task Force
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