FUSE USA

(Friends United for Sustainable Energy)

Helping make the Big Apple Greener

*Close Down Indian Point*

 

351 Dyckman Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
ph: 914 293 7458
alt: 914 358 5848

FUSE USA Media Coverage and Events

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FUSE USA is receiving coverage from mainstream newspapers and magazines for progress made opposing the relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, NY, Westchester County, 19th electoral district, John Hall Congressman.

NRC THREATENS TO TOSS FUSE USA Out of License Renewal Hearing For Stating the Truth

In a retalitory move on the part of the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, FUSE USA has been ordered to issue an apology, or have their contentions thrown out.  All because FUSE USA director, Sherwood Martinelli,  spoke the truth in referring to said board (based on their rulings) as pro industry pricks.  The board's ruling has been appealed, and if the prick fits, you must acquit.

12/04/2007

FUSE USA in Brattleboro Reformer

Saturday November 24, 2007

Activists object to nuke plant transfer
By BOB AUDETTE, Reformer Staff

 

Saturday, November 24
BRATTLEBORO -- Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees to allow Entergy to spin off eight of its nuclear reactors into a separate holding company, it should hold hearings in the six communities where those power plants are located.

That's the request from the anti-nuclear group Friends United for Sustainable Energy, which represents people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The spinoff -- of Pilgrim in Plymouth, Mass., Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Indian Point on the Hudson River, James A. FitzPatrick in Oswego, N.Y., and Palisades in South Haven, Mich. -- is intended to consolidate debt and increase the amount the holding company can borrow to make upgrades on reactors in operation or to build new reactors.

FUSE's request, called a petition to intervene, followed a similar petition filed by a Massachusetts labor union, representing workers at the Pilgrim nuclear power station, which claimed the spinoff would affect safety at the power plants.

"If they don't hold hearings at each site, it's absolutely impossible for the rights of citizens to be involved in the process to be fully exercised," said Sherwood Martinelli, spokesman for FUSE, who lives in Peekskill, N.Y., three miles from the three reactors at Indian Point nuclear power plant. Read Article

November 7th Press Release

Sherwood Martinelli of FUSE USA Files Formal Request for Extension of Time

Media Contact:  Sherwood Martinelli (914) 293-7458

Press Release
Sherwood Martinelli of FUSE USA has just filed a Formal Request for and Extension of Time to file Petitions to Intervene, and Requests for Hearing in Entergy's License Renewal Application Process. This is the second such request filed, with the first one successful in moving the deadline back until November 30th, 2007.

The Formal Request for and Extension became necessary when Sherwood Martinelli of FUSE USA ran into numerous difficulties in gaining access to necessary documents needed to review Entergy's License Renewal Application for Indian Point. Many of these difficulties are a result of the DOE and NRC review processes that greatly slows their ability to make documents public in a timely fashion.

  • Newspaper Coverage

    FUSE USA has recently made the pages of these newsspapers:

    New York Times

    New York Post

    New York Observer

    The Journal News

    Brattleboro Reformer

    FUSE USA in September raised a contention that Entergy's Decommissioning Fund for Indian Point is woefully and dangerously inadequate.  Now, a study on Vermont Yankee has shown our suspicions about Indian Point may be a FLEET WIDE concern for all Entergy reactor sites.  This should force the NRC to think long and hard about Entergy's License Control Transfer Application. You can read this alarming article here.

    FUSE USA thanks Susan Smallheer  for her excellant report on this crucial issue.

     

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  • Current Press Release

    FUSE USA
    Friends United for Sustainable Energy, USA
    351 Dyckman Street
    Peekskill, New York 10566
    (914) 734-7458
    PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
    For Immediate Release
    Contact:
    Sherwood Martinelli (914) 293-7458 or 734-1955
    FUSE USA's efforts to shut down the aging Indian Point reactors has recently been featured in numerous news publications, including the New York Times after filing 26 Contentions in the Indian Point License Renewal Process.  Today, November 9th, 2007 FUSE USA continues our work of protecting human health and the environment with the filing of 17 contentions  on Indian Point reactor number 3.
    With elevated cancer rates in the three state area of Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, coupled with new evidence of radioactive tritium possibly leaking from the hot side of the Indian Point facility, one has to give credence to the anecdotal evidence that living near an aging nuclear reactor contributes to elevated cancers.
    Projects like the Tooth Fairy Project suggest there is a link between strontium 90, which has been found in water samples taken from the Indian Point facility, and childhood leukemia.  Some suggest living close to a nuclear reactor increases a woman's chance of breast cancer, and of giving birth to a stillborn child.
    For too long, the military/commercial nuclear industry has denied any links between themselves and cancer, have taken a prove it  was us attitude, placing the burden on average citizens.  FUSE USA believes that the burden needs to be reversed.   Entergy needs to prove to communities located in Indian Point's 50 mile Peak Fatality Zone (PFZ) ,which encompasses parts of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York that Indian Point with its tritium, celsium 137 and strontium 90 leaks is not contributing to the elevated breast cancer, childhood leukemia, and thyroid cancers in our communities.  Before the NRC considers granting Entergy a 20 year license renewal, our communities deserve health studies.
    Because of that, included as a part of FUSE USA's latest filings is a contention asking that those studies be carried out as a part of the License Renewal Process.  No studies, no license renewal needs to be our call to action.    The Health Studies contention is included below, and the entire filing is attached as a word file.
    Interested citizens are encouraged to sign onto these important contentions.  Contact sherwood@fuseusa.org  with your name and address to  add your voice to this important Public Health contention.


 

Today, the news media has a different face. It's not just newspapers, magazines and television. It's also a vast network of blogs and streaming video portals that now bring news to millions of Americans.

Google keywords that will bring you an avalanche of information. It's hard to keep up with the flow. The nuclear power industry and its regulating body are well versed in the fine art of manipulating the web to their advantage. The fight to shut down Indian Point has become a propaganda war using the web as its new battlefield, matching wits, facts and figures with pro-nuclear advocates who don't share our vision of a sustainable energy future.

Please, if you discover an item not posted here, that relates to FUSE USA activities, email us the link.

Example of GE's wrongful Propaganda pitching the Friendly Atom, targeting our children.

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