Veteran actor and activist Paul Newman made his views known on Wednesday concerning the Indian Point nuclear power facility in the New York suburbs, pronouncing it safer than military bases he had visited.

The actor and salad dressing salesman visited the Buchanan, N.Y., facility on Monday, according to Jim Steets, a spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, the company that owns Indian Point.

Newman, the star of such films as “Cool Hand Luke,” “The Hustler,” “Slap Shot” and “Nobody’s Fool,” praised the nuclear power facility as an important part of the region’s energy future because it doesn’t produce greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.

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