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Indian Point is investing more than $50 million, including about $30 million on employee salaries,to complete the refueling and other important projects at unit 3. That investment translates to additional economic activity for the surrounding communities from dozens of vendors and hundreds of additional contract workers, many from outside the area.
“We have brought in about 1,000 highly skilled contract workers, in addition to our 1,000regular employees, to help perform hundreds of scheduled maintenance activities and inspections during the unit 3 outage,” said Larry Coyle, site vice president and top Entergyofficial at Indian Point, “In addition to conducting important work on unit 3, they are providing an economic boost to our region.” U.S. nuclear power plants are among the most reliable of any type of electricitygenerator, operating on average more than 90 percentof the time. Nuclear plants also helpregional electricity grids maintain a diverse array of fuel generation and protect against anover-reliance on a single fuel type.
Unit 3 was online generating electricity more than 99 percent of the time since it returnedto service from its previous refueling outage, in April 2013. Indian Point’s other operating unit, Unit 2, continues in service at full power.
Indian Point Energy Center, in Buchanan, N.Y., is home to two operating nuclear power plants, unit 2 and unit 3, which generate approximately 2000 megawatts of electricity for homes, business and public facilities in New York City and Westchester County.
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