PLYMOUTH — Watchdogs who had tracked the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s faltering performance in its final years were relieved when the reactor was permanently shut down in 2019. But that […]
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
RADIOACTIVITY
Holtec Says Regulated Contaminants Will Be Treated Away
The EPA does not regulate radionuclides
PLYMOUTH — The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has indicated it is closer to releasing radioactive wastewater from the plant’s spent fuel pool, reactor cavity, and other systems […]
RADIOACTIVITY
Law Limiting Pilgrim Water Release Awaits Baker’s Signature
Sen. Moran’s amendment is attached to economic development bill
PLYMOUTH — A Holtec official said at a July public hearing that, if a state law prohibited it, his company would not release a million gallons of treated radioactive water […]
PROBABILITIES
New Study Concludes Pilgrim Plumes Would Hit Outer Cape
Wastewater would circle the bay and flow from Race Point to the back shore
PROVINCETOWN — A Woods Hole oceanographer has completed an extensive study of probable pathways the contaminated water will take if one million gallons from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s spent […]
RADIOACTIVITY
Holtec Says It Will Delay Decision on Water Release
The company plans to use the water on-site until the first quarter of 2023
PLYMOUTH — Holtec Decommissioning International, the company that now owns the former Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, has announced it will extend its timeline for the potential release of 1.1 million […]
RADIOACTIVITY
State Legislation to Stop Radioactive Water Release Fails
Those fighting Holtec ask the attorney general to act
PLYMOUTH — A plan to release one million gallons of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s systems into Cape Cod Bay, announced last fall by Holtec Decommissioning International, […]
HOLTEC’S TREASURE
Holtec Expects to Make Huge Profit off Pilgrim Plant
Finance report predicts that $500 million or more would go to company
PLYMOUTH — When Holtec International took ownership of the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in 2019, it came with a decommissioning trust fund with more than $1 billion in it. […]
PILGRIM REACTOR
Congressional Hearing to Look at Decommissioning
The public is not invited to speak, but advocates plan rallies in Plymouth
PLYMOUTH — A handful of state and federal officials, an attorney from a national advocacy group, and the president of Holtec International, the company that owns the shuttered Pilgrim nuclear […]
RADIOACTIVITY
Worker Lockout Is New Worry at Nuclear Plant
NRC says radioactive releases from Pilgrim have always been at safe levels
PLYMOUTH — There is more to worry about than the possible discharge of a million gallons of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into Cape Cod Bay. That […]
IN HARM’S WAY
Radioactive Water From Pilgrim Would Flow to Outer Cape
Mapping of Cape Cod Bay currents shows path of potential contamination
PLYMOUTH — The company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has not said much about where the radioactive water it proposes to release into Cape Cod Bay would […]
RADIOACTIVITY
EPA: Holtec Sows ‘Public Confusion’
Agency chastises Pilgrim’s owner for statements on dumping water into Cape Cod Bay
PLYMOUTH — An Environmental Protection Agency official criticized Holtec International last week for misleading the public about its proposed dumping of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into […]
RADIOACTIVITY
Attorney General Says Permits Forbid Release of Reactor Water
The company argues against the alternatives to ‘overboarding’
PLYMOUTH — The Mass. attorney general’s office has doubled down on a recent statement saying that Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s permits prohibit the release of radioactive water into Cape Cod […]
RADIOACTIVE QUESTIONS
Attorney General: Dumping Pilgrim Water Is Prohibited
The water has not yet been tested for possible contaminants
Editor’s note: After this week’s Independent went to press, Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey’s office issued a statement about the release of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. The report below […]
PILGRIM WASTE
Shape of Bay Means Poisons Would Linger
Activists, legislators look to stop release of radioactive water from closed reactor
PLYMOUTH — Cape Cod Bay is not a good place to dump one million gallons of radioactive effluent from systems at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, according to an expert on […]
PILGRIM NUCLEAR
Fishing Community Raises Alarm on Radioactive Water
Releases into Cape Cod Bay began as early as 2011, NRC documents show
PLYMOUTH — The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station had slowly drifted out of the public’s consciousness in the years since the troubled reactor’s final shutdown in 2019. But the region’s residents […]
