BUCHANAN – No oil reached the Hudson River as an unspecified amount of petroleum leaked from a heat exchanger into the discharge canal at the Indian Point nuclear power plant at Buchanan on Friday. That assessment came from Governor Andrew Cuomo, who toured the facility.
The governor said there appears to have been a malfunction in one of the turbines that was leaking oil.
“The oil spill was connected to the cooling system of the turbine and that is being monitored now,” Cuomo said. “The suggesting is that the oil spill did not reach the Hudson River but was contained within the plant and the plant discharge canal.”
The state Department of Environmental Conservation was on-site to assess the situation and a remediation company was called in to prevent oil from making it to the river, which Cuomo said appears to have been successful.
