Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney(D-Cold Spring) is calling for one of Indian Point’s nuclear power plants to go offline until the cause of the degradation of some of the plant’s internal bolts is solved.
Indian Point in the Westchester County village of Buchanan shut down its Unit 2 power plant in early March to do what it said was a routine maintenance inspection and refueling as it seeks to renew its licenses.
On June 17, Entergy, the company that owns Indian Point said that Unit 2 was back online after a $120 million upgrade and that “there are no safety concerns.”
On June 20, Maloney countered that replacing 227 of 832 baffle bolts, or 27 percent, was a safety concern, and called for the plant to be shut down until the cause of the degradation was understood.
Baffle bolts secure the wall of the reactor core, which encases the nuclear rods.
