Pilgrim Nuclear

A worker performing a survey under the head of the reactor vessel brushed against a contaminated surface, causing radioactive material to become airborne.

The company that owns the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Holtec International, has filed an appeal seeking to discharge radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.

Healey talked about Pilgrim while visiting Cape Cod on Wednesday.

Holtec International, which owns the closed power plant, confirmed to CAI on Tuesday that it plans to appeal.

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.

The Department of Environmental Protection says releasing Pilgrim’s wastewater — radioactive or not — into Cape Cod Bay is illegal under the Ocean Sanctuaries Act.

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.

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.

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.

The state says Holtec International has agreed to test for more types of radioactive material than it did last year.