The Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight Board was to meet Thursday for the first time since New York outlawed the discharge of irradiated water from the shuttered plant.
The board was scheduled to meet at the Cortlandt Town Hall in Cortland, N.Y. at 6:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday evening. The board planned to stream the meeting online but had not posted an agenda as of Tuesday afternoon.
New York State runs the board through a task force led by its Department of Public Service. The panel gives locals and others affected by the 2022 closure of the Indian Point Nuclear Energy Center access to the state officials overseeing the plant’s decommissioning by Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla.
This summer, Holtec got hit with a double-whammy in the northeastern U.S. when Massachusetts and New York each effectively banned discharge of irradiated wastewater from shuttered nuclear power plants.
Holtec has said the state’s decisions are preempted by federal law, though the company had not challenged either in the U.S. courts as of Tuesday afternoon.
In New York, discharge of irradiated wastewater from a nuclear power plant into the Hudson River is not punishable by a series of escalating fines: $25,000 a day for first-time offenders, $50,000 a day for second-time offenders and $150,000 a day for subsequent offenders.
Indian Point in Buchanan, N.Y., is about 50 miles upriver from downtown Manhattan.
