3,100 Petition Signatures to be Presented to Plymouth Selectmen
Petitions signed by more than 3,100 citizens and local businesses will be presented to the Plymouth Board of Selectmen at their meeting on April 29th, by the local group Concerned Neighbors of Pilgrim...
View ArticlePlymouth Residents Vote Yes for Safer Storage of Spent Fuel
Plymouth residents overwhelmingly voted to approve Question 1 on Saturday, May 10th, with 83 percent of voters voting yes. Question 1 encourages town leaders to ensure that spent nuclear fuel...
View ArticleMarkey Blasts NRC Vote on Dangerous Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
Lawmaker introduced legislation with Sens. Boxer & Sanders to move spent nuclear fuel into safer dry cask storage Washington (May 27, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the...
View ArticleNRC Votes against Accelerated Dry Cask Storage
On May 27th, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced its 4-1 vote against requiring the accelerated transfer of nuclear waste from wet pool storage into safer dry cask storage. As part of...
View ArticleLooking Back at a 2013 Nor’easter: Implications for Pilgrim
In early March 2013, Plymouth was hit by a nor’easter whose effects led to the shutdown of Bert’s Restaurant on Warren Ave in Plymouth. Here’s a video that shows the waves smashing into the building,...
View ArticleEntergy Still Trying to Evade Local Zoning Laws for Nuke Dump
We have been keeping you updated on the legal efforts by local residents to make Entergy comply with zoning laws for a nuclear waste dump and related construction at Pilgrim. This project, costing...
View ArticleEntergy Announces it Will Move Fuel to Dry Casks Soon
On July 28, 2014, Entergy informed the Massachusetts Land Court that a portion of Pilgrim’s spent nuclear fuel (aka, nuclear waste) will be moved into dry cask storage “no earlier than October 27,...
View ArticleCitizens Win Round 1 in Land Court Against Entergy over Zoning Violations at...
On August 14, 2014, local citizens scored a major victory against Entergy when Mass. Land Court rejected the corporation’s attempt to get the citizens’ law suit thrown out of court. The judge ruled...
View ArticleNRC Ends Ban on Licencing Reactors, Allows Indefinite Storage of Nuclear...
Background Beginning in 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was not been able to issue licenses for new nuclear reactors, or issue renewals for existing licenses. This is because a federal...
View ArticlePILGRIM STATION: Dry cask appeal moves forward
Article: by Frank Mand, Sept. 5, 2014, Wicked Local Plymouth. See the original article here. PLYMOUTH – When the Zoning Board of Appeals ruled last year that Entergy – the owners of the Pilgrim Nuclear...
View ArticleWhat’s the Latest on Yucca Mountain?
Check out the links below to learn the latest information about the Yucca Mountain federal repository for nuclear waste. Thanks to NIRS for compiling and sharing this list! Short NIRS fact sheet...
View ArticleHistoric Nor’easter Underlines Risks at Pilgrim
After the season’s first significant snowfall this past Saturday, Massachusetts is now bracing for a major winter storm expected to arrive Monday night and last until early Wednesday. The Weather...
View ArticleCitizens Go to Court to Challenge Entergy’s Refusal to Provide Records in...
A group of eleven local residents asked a Massachusetts court to order Entergy Nuclear Generation Co., owner and operator of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to turn over...
View ArticlePlymouth Dry Cask Storage Meeting: Town Hall, Feb. 10th
A citizens’ group in Plymouth will be presenting information and concerns about Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s Dry Cask Nuclear Waste Storage Project to the Plymouth Board of Selectmen on Feb. 10th....
View ArticleResidents ask Plymouth Board of Selectmen to take action on nuclear waste
On February 10, 2015 the Plymouth Board of Selectmen heard presentations from Concerned Neighbors of Pilgrim, Jones River Watershed Association (JRWA) and Pilgrim Watch. The topic was Entergy’s long...
View ArticleComparing Cesium-137 Inventory at Pilgrim to Chernobyl’s
The chart below shows the difference in cesium-137 (an extremely hazardous isotope that releases radiation) released by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, present in Pilgrim’s reactor core, and...
View ArticleLand Court Says “Few Facts” in Dispute in Lawsuit Challenging Entergy’s...
Lesley University intern, Marcel Howard, writes about the Pilgrim nuclear waste storage zoning case. Marcel is a 3rd year student at Lesley, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Environmental...
View ArticleLand Court Zoning Lawsuit One-step Closer to Trial
Lesley University intern, Marcel Howard, writes about the Pilgrim nuclear waste storage zoning case. Marcel is a 3rd year student at Lesley, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Environmental...
View ArticleComments: Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage
Today we submitted comments to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) regarding their Sept 23, 2015 “Audit of NRC’s Oversight of Low-Level Radioactive Waste.”...
View ArticleU.N. Report: U.S. Most Affected By Weather Disasters
According to a new report issued by the United Nations on Nov. 23rd, the U.S. is the most impacted country by weather-related disasters. The report, titled “The Human Cost of Weather Related...
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