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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
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I saw this commercial on TV.
It starts with an aerial view of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant and starts panning back. A woman's voice says, "American nuclear power plants are potential terrorist targets. Millions of us around the Indian Point Nuclear Plant live in the rings of a bulls-eye. Within ten miles, the evacuation zone." This is shown in yellow. "Within 17, the peak fatality zone." This is shown in orange. "And within the peak injury zone," shown in red, "there are some pretty big towns." Our view heads south, revealing, of course, New York City. You hear the street noises, as the camera zooms in from the whole of New York City, to Manhattan, to a four by four block section of Manhattan that INCLUDES MY APARTMENT. The screen goes black. "Tell your senators. Tell the governor. This is one nightmare we don't have to live with." The screen says "CLOSE INDIAN POINT. To contact Sen. Schumer, Sen. Clinton, Gov. Pataki go to riverkeeper.org." Then in small type, "Paid for by Riverkeeper. We do not support or oppose any candidate for public office."
So, that was a little disturbing. It was a pretty disturbing commercial altogether, but it was certainly made all the moreso by the close-up of my building. On the other hand, I really do believe in nuclear power. I think the solution is to make it safer. A lot more people, you know, have been killed or injured or suffered weird, seemingly unexplainable illnesses, because of coal than because of nuclear power.
But, yeah, not in my backyard, please.
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