Gillibrand seeks funding for Indian Point towns after plant shuts down Thomas C. Zambito, Rockland/Westchester Journal News © Mark Vergari/The Journal News A view of the containment building and the turbine building at Indian Point 3, at the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, April 20, 2021.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is backing a measure that would provide $175 million annually to communities like those around Indian Point and others that will be burdened with spent nuclear waste after the power plants shutdown.
Gillibrand joined lawmakers from Illinois, Maine and Vermont in introducing the STRANDED (Sensible, Timely Relief for America’s Nuclear Districts’ Economic Development) Act to assist communities that are home to shuttered nuclear plants or soon will be.
Gillibrand seeks aid for Indian Point towns after plant shuts down
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Unconventional takes on pandemics and nuclear defense could protect humanity from catastrophic failure, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210416194919.htm
April 16, 2021, Source: American Physical Society Summary: From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon.
From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon.
“Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species ours can determine the biosphere’s fate,” said Martin Rees, the United Kingdom’s Astronomer Royal and a founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University.