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The decommissioning timeline now stretches out to 2035. At the present rate of evaporation of radioactive water from Pilgrim, the water and its contaminants could be dispersed into the air before that date ever comes.
Holtec last week filed for state and federal permits to authorize the discharge of about 1.1 million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.
Environmentalists were surprised to learn this week that newly filed state legislation would strip almost all the citizens from a citizens advisory panel overseeing the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear
Holtec International will seek an amended permit to discharge radioactive wastewater from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into Cape Cod Bay, Senior Compliance Manager David Noyes told members of the
Local activists trying to block the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station from releasing radioactive water are calling on state and federal officials to do more. The Save Our Bay coalition plans to ask state Attorney General Maura Healey, who is running for governor, to seek a preliminary injunction blocking discharge of the water into Cape Cod Bay, according to Diane Turco, a member of the coalition’s steering committee. “The federal government appears to be unable to take steps to protect our communities,” she said. “So we have to look to the state to step up now.” The group has requested ...