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This week: A blade comes off a Vineyard Wind turbine scattering debris onto Nantucket beaches. The Cape gets $1 billion for replacing the Sagamore Bridge. And the state says no to Holtec dumping radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.
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The Department of Environmental Protection says releasing Pilgrim’s wastewater — radioactive or not — into Cape Cod Bay is illegal under the Ocean Sanctuaries Act.
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A worker at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has been exposed to radiation — enough to set off an alarm as the person went to leave the radiologically controlled area of the reactor building.
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Longtime employee David Noyes, who started at Pilgrim in 1989 and still works there — now as a compliance manager for Holtec — remembers being at the plant on the last day of operations.
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The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has provided new data on potential air pollution from the plant in response to the state’s determination that its previous report was not sufficient.
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The state says Holtec International has agreed to test for more types of radioactive material than it did last year.
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David Noyes alleges that two panel members' emails to the entire group violated the law.
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In a letter to Holtec Tuesday, Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Bill Keating asked the company to respond in writing, by May 31, to a list of 13 detailed questions.
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The entire delegation from Cape Cod, the Islands, and Plymouth have called for an end to evaporation of water from Pilgrim until the state can evaluate it. Meanwhile, the state says Holtec provided inadequate information about potential air pollution from the nuclear power station.
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Holtec talks to CAI about the fate of the water if it were shipped to a licensed disposal facility out of state, as local activists hope.