Holtec Decommissioning International is dismantling all three Indian Point units on the Hudson River after buying the plant from Entergy in May 2021. All spent fuel was moved to dry casks by October 2023 and reactor vessel internals segmentation for Units 2 and 3 continued through late 2025; Holtec has publicly floated a possible restart.

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Current state

Status	Active dismantling
Country	United States
Location	Buchanan, New York
Site	Indian Point Energy Center
Units	Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3
Unit count	3
Reactor types	PWR
Owner / licensee	Holtec Indian Point 2 LLC / Holtec Indian Point 3 LLC (licensed operator: Holtec Decommissioning International)
Decommissioning contractor	Holtec Decommissioning International
Strategy	Immediate dismantling
Final shutdown	2021-04-30
Decommissioning start	2021-05
Target completion	2062
Cost estimate	USD 2.3bn (as of 2020-01)
Decommissioning trust fund	USD 2.1bn (as of 2019-10)
Spent fuel	All fuel from Units 1-3 in 127 dry casks on the on-site ISFSI pad since October 2023.
Notable issue	New York State law bars Holtec from discharging radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River; Holtec has challenged it, and in September 2025 Holtec floated restarting the reactors.

Notes

target completion 2062 = license termination per Holtec PSDAR as summarized by NRC; Holtec has separately said it aims to clear the site (except fuel) by the mid-2030s (ExchangeMonitor reports a 2036 target). Cost $2.3bn and trust ~$2.1bn (Oct 2019) are from the NY AG's 2020 filing summarizing Holtec's PSDAR. Holtec's 2026 S-1 shows Holtec must keep at least $360m in the Indian Point NDT until partial site release.

Timeline

1974-10-31 — Unit 1 shut down because its emergency core cooling system did not meet regulatory requirements. (source)
2020-04-30 — Unit 2 permanently ceased power operations. (source)
2021-04-30 — Unit 3, the last operating reactor, permanently shut down. (source)
2021-05 — Holtec completed its purchase of Indian Point from Entergy for accelerated decommissioning. (source)
2023-10-14 — The last Unit 3 fuel assembly was placed into dry cask storage, completing the campaign. (source)
2025-09-10 — Holtec publicly floated restarting the shuttered Indian Point reactors. (source)
2025-12 — NRC inspectors reported continued reactor vessel internals segmentation at Units 2 and 3. (source)

The timeline is append-only: corrections are added as new entries. Stated targets appear in the current-state table, never as milestones.

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Sources

Indian Point Unit 1 — U.S. NRC (primary), checked 2026-10-11
Indian Point Unit 2 — U.S. NRC (primary), checked 2026-10-11
Indian Point Unit 3 — U.S. NRC (primary), checked 2026-10-11
Indian Point Decommissioning — Holtec International (primary), checked 2026-10-11
Holtec completes Indian Point dry storage campaign — ANS Nuclear Newswire, checked 2026-10-11
Indian Point owner floats restart of shuttered nuclear reactors — POLITICO, checked 2026-10-11
NRC Region I inspection report, Indian Point (Jul-Dec 2025) — U.S. NRC (primary), checked 2026-10-11
Holtec Nuclear Corp Form S-1/A (2026) — U.S. SEC / Holtec (primary), checked 2026-10-11
Locations of Power Reactor Sites Undergoing Decommissioning — U.S. NRC (primary), checked 2026-10-11
AG James Takes Action To Ensure Safe, Rapid, And Complete Dismantling Of Indian Point — New York Attorney General (primary), checked 2026-10-11