Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

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…

Workers at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station are prepping for the plant’s shutdown after 47 years of operation. On Friday, a team of about six or seven workers will begin the process of reducing the plant’s power from the current 40% to zero. The process will occur over about a five-hour period in a 1970s-era control room that contains hundreds...

The owner of the only nuclear power plant in Massachusetts has announced plans to move the facility’s nuclear waste to higher ground. The plan for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth announced Thursday by Entergy Corp. is intended to protect the radioactive fuel from the threat of rising seas.

A Massachusetts nuclear power plant has been cited for a security issue.

The only nuclear power plant in Massachusetts won’t have to comply with certain safety requirements as it prepares to shut down, getting a pass on precautions put in place after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.