A date has been set, finally, for testing the levels of contaminants in radioactive wastewater that could be released from the defunct Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into Cape Cod Bay.
CAI | By Jennette Barnes, March 28, 2023 Opponents of the proposed discharge of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station packed a meeting on the future of the station last night. Ryan Collins of Bourne received a standing ovation from the audience when he presented a thick binder of signatures from his Change.org petition.…
The company that owns the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Holtec, has filed for modification of a federal permit to discharge water from the spent nuclear fuel pool into Cape Cod Bay.
Although the water contains radioactive material, the application filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deals only with non-radiological pollution.
Radioactivity in the water is regulated separately, by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Holtec spokesman Patrick O’Brien said the water already meets radiation limits.
March 31, 2023, Barbara Moran, WBUR, The company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station agreed, again, to cooperate with an independent environmental study, but refused U.S. Senator Ed Markey's demand that they pay for it. The study would evaluate the risks involved with discharging more than a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. The company, Holtec, had committed…