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Alternative Baby Clothes Meanwhile, Entergy has been campaigning to convince the public that the plant is safe. The company has mounted a public relations drive that includes broadcast ads referring to Indian Point 2 as an "energy center" rather than a nuclear plant and repeating its new slogan, "Safe, Secure, Vital." The company has encouraged the plant's 1,460 employees to attest publicly to its safety.

Baby Clothes Online Jim Steets, a spokesman for Entergy, called the report crucial in notifying the public about the plant's safety. "People can start feeling better about Indian Point because it's a safe place," he said. "The federal regulator has said so itself, and that's important to us and the community. We feel we can improve further and be one of the best-rated plants in the country."

Organic Baby Products But foes of the plant dismissed much of the report. Kelly MacMillan, a spokeswoman for Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, whose district includes Buchanan, warned that "we can't lose sight of the fact that this is still an unsafe plant with an evacuation plan that cannot protect the public health and safety."

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Baby Clothing According to the report, eight federal inspectors spent a month studying Indian Point 2 this summer and concluded that Entergy had operated the plant safely and made progress in addressing its "underlying performance issues," including equipment operation, engineering methods and oversight by senior management.

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Infant Clothes Alex Matthiessen, executive director of the environmental group Riverkeeper, said: "The report does nothing to address the fact that Indian Point is a potential terrorist target and poses an enormous risk to the 21 million people living in the New York metropolitan area."

Free Baby Products While the report makes no specific mention of how the plant would withstand a terrorist attack, Mr. Steets, the company spokesman, said that breaking through the reactor was virtually impossible, especially with recent security improvements.

Carters Baby Clothes By Corey Kilgannon
New York Times - 8/30/2002

Topic: Nuclear

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