Last month, several American internet websites published the news of an explosion occurred last 7th November 2010 of a transformer at the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) nuclear power plant owned by Entergy Corporation.
Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) is a nuclear power plant located in the Buchanan about 40 km from the city of New York on the bank of the Hudson River, with 1,683 employees, providing up to 30% of the electricity used by New York City and the Westchester.
The accident generated an automatic shut-down of one of the nuclear reactors, without jeopardising the full production of the plant.
According to a spoke person, the damaged unit was built in 2006, contained PCBs free oil, and was designed to last at least 30 years.
In the days after the event, the news expanded reaching specifically environmentally related connotations. The Riverkeeper association, for example, followed the fact pointing out less known information to public opinion, such as the spill into the environment, and the reclamation, particularly into the Hudson river, of thousands of gallons of oil contained by the exploded transformer.
The officials of the Department Environment Conservation of the state of New York, in fact, found out that the entire content of the exploded transformer, 75,000 litres, was “lost” into the water drainage system and into the Hudson River.
Energy Corporation itself, declared to have allocated to contractors specialised the activities of containment of oil spills and reclamation of the areas involved, recovering through 21st November, about 37,000 litres.
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