Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

Facing a crowd of about 100 environmental activists, the company working to decommission the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is still considering dumping radioactive waste into Cape Cod Bay as one of its options to get rid of the material. A representative of Holtec International gave an update to the company’s plans at a town hall meeting Monday…

The company working to decommission the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth is considering dumping radioactive waste into Cape Cod Bay.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey’s office says the company dismantling a former nuclear power plant along Cape Cod Bay won’t release radioactive water into the bay unless tests confirm local marine life won’t be harmed. The Massachusetts Democrat held a hearing in Plymouth, Massachusetts Friday about nuclear safety and security issues, where the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station by...

The Plymouth Board of Health has issued a resolution strongly opposing any potential plan to dump nearly 1 million gallons of radioactive waste into Cape Cod Bay.

Massachusetts will need to trim down some of its monitoring work at a shuttered nuclear power plant in Plymouth unless lawmakers require the facility’s owners to cover additional costs in the next few years, a top Baker administration official said Monday as public concern grows about a potential radioactive water discharge into the Cape Cod Bay. Department of Public...

People on the South Shore of Massachusetts pushed back Monday on any potential plan to dump 1 million gallons of radioactive waste into Cape Cod Bay. Holtec International, which purchased Plymouth’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in 2019, intends to complete the plant’s decommissioning by 2024. While Holtec says no final decisions have been made about what it will do with…

People gathered at Plymouth Town Hall to make their voices heard about potential plans to dump 1 million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.

Members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation are pushing back against the proposed dumping of 1 million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. Holtec International, which purchased Plymouth’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in 2019, intends to complete the plant’s decommissioning by 2024. While Holtec says no final decisions have been made about what it will do with Pilgrim’s radioactive waste,…

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Reps. Seth Moulton and William Keating sent a letter to Holtec strongly urging them not to dump 1 million gallons of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into the ocean.

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, shut down in 2019, has a million gallons of radioactive waste sitting offshore.

For years, the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has been the only operating commercial nuclear power plant in Massachusetts. Ever since it shut down in 2019, there has been speculation about what is going to happen with the million gallons of radioactive water sitting offshore. Many fear the water could be released into Cape Cod Bay. Diane Turco of…