George Seminara

George Seminara passed away in December 2020. This recording was made in July, 2020. George loved Indian Point and this interview is in honor of him. As he told me: “Thanks for making me immortal.”

George Seminara was born in Queens, New York in 1953. In the late 1970s he worked as plumber before taking a job at New York State Corrections in Ottisville, NY eventually transferring to Greenhaven Prison outside Stormville, NY. George learned about a position at Indian Point through his brother-in-law and started working for ConEdison in 1980. His first assignment was as an Operating Mechanic B for Unit 1. Later he worked in Operations as a Nuclear Plant Operator (1983) before receiving his Reactor Operator license on ConEdison’s Unit 2 in 1989. In 2004, George left the control room and worked with Maintenance and License Extension until 2017. This interview provides in-depth information on: the water plant, shift teams, the integration of Unit 2 and 3, the 1983 strike, relations with environmental groups, and a government cultural resource survey of the site.