U.S. regulators have promised to make the Indian Point nuclear power plant near New York City their top priority in a review of seismic risk at U.S. nuclear plants, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.
The plant 25 miles of New York City, already a source of safety concern among state officials, has faced renewed scrutiny since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.
Cuomo, a Democrat who has worked to prevent the federal relicensing of the Indian Point facility, said the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pledged to make the plant its "top priority" as it reviews earthquake risk at 27 nuclear facilities throughout the country.
"It is essential that the NRC move quickly to answer the significant and longstanding safety questions surrounding Indian Point," Cuomo said after New York state officials met with regulators at the NRC's Maryland headquarters.
An NRC report in September found Indian Point was at the greatest risk from seismic activity among the nuclear plants under review. Indian Point sits near two geological fault lines. The plant provides up to 30 percent of New York City's power.
The NRC will be investigating 27 plants' ability to handle earthquakes.
"It is important to note that while the study indicated the seismic risk has increased for some plants, it is not by a margin that would give us cause for any immediate concern," Eliot Brenner, a sp
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