Schneiderman says nuclear regulators are downplaying waste-storage risk
By Scott Waldman
ALBANY—Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its assessment of the risks surrounding the storage of nuclear waste on site at the nation's 100 reactors, including those at Indian Point in Westchester County.
At a hearing in Tarrytown this week, Schneiderman submitted criticism of the N.R.C.'s environmental impact proposal, saying it “fails to provide such a full and detailed accounting, and therefore, fails our communities.”
Schneiderman successfully sued the N.R.C., which controls the licensing of nuclear facilities, in 2011 for approving a regulation that would allow Indian Point and other nuclear facilities to serve as storage sites for radioactive waste for at least 60 years after they close.
In 2012, a federal court sided with the attorney general and found that storing spent nuclear fuel “poses a dangerous, long-term health and environmental risk” and ordered the N.R.C. to conduct a more thorough analysis.
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