Gov. Kathy Hochul may have warmed to the idea of adding more nuclear power to the New York’s energy mix, but her plans don’t include restarting Westchester County’s Indian Point power plant.

“Let me say this plainly: No,” Hochul writes in a letter sent last week to Westchester County Executive Kenneth Jenkins obtained by the USA TODAY Network. “There have been no discussions or plans, and I would not support efforts to do so.”

Hochul’s stance applies not only to traditional reactors once in use at Indian Point, but smaller, state-of-the-art modular reactors viewed by some as an alternative less likely to encounter opposition.

Those reactors, while still years away from widescale commercial use, don’t come with the same baggage as traditional reactors whose cooling towers became symbols

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