Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday called for shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant after a federal report branded it the most vulnerable to earthquakes in the nation.
“The suggestion is that of all the [104] power plants across the country, that the Indian Point power plant is most susceptible to an earthquake because Reactor No. 3 is on a fault [line],” Cuomo said as nuclear meltdown fears deepened in Japan.
“It should be closed. This plant in this proximity to the city was never a good risk.”
Nothing beats a Democrat in times of tragedy. Nothing.
Reactor 3 at Indian Point has always been on a fault line, but now that there are rumblings in Japan and a media-fueled anti-nuclear frenzy, it’s the right time to take advantage of the fear and shut it down.
This is leadership Rahm Emanuel style.
To be clear, I’ve never been a fan of Indian Point, either. It’s a poorly run mess of a plant that’s had numerous safety violations over the year. Nothing would make me happier than seeing it shut down, or at the very least seeing it handed over to another company that could do a better job running it.
That being said, doing it right at this moment in time smacks of opportunism, and if you think it doesn’t, you need only watch the local news as all the talking brain-deads ask the age-old paranoia precursor, “Could it happen here?”
Opportunists. All of them.