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This week: It's a 2023 wrap-up. We look back at the year's top stories for the region, including: After a whole lot of talk—and a whole lot of money spent—offshore wind turbines are now going up south of Martha's Vineyard. And, we’ve got a concrete plan for replacing the Cape bridges—just waiting on the money there. And that proposed massive machine gun range remains in limbo.
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This week: The Sagamore Bridge replacement project lands its first significant federal funding: more than $370 million. Also, the Massachusetts Medical Society has an opinion on the million gallons of radioactive water Holtec wants to dump into Cape Cod Bay. And, the Endangered Species act turns 50.
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The Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, says further decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station should be put on hold to wait for research into the public health consequences.
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This week: The race is on. State Senator Su Moran announces she’s not running for re-election, she’ll run for a different office, and Representative Dylan Fernandes says he’ll run for the senate seat, leaving his up for grabs—we’ll help you sort it all out. And that million gallons of radioactive water at Pilgrim power station? It’s evaporating, quicker than you might think.
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The decommissioning timeline now stretches out to 2035. At the present rate of evaporation of radioactive water from Pilgrim, the water and its contaminants could be dispersed into the air before that date ever comes.
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The company hopes to install a new type of reactor, known as a small modular reactor, or SMR, at plants in New Jersey and Michigan.
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This week: Replacing the two Cape bridges just got a little more expensive... like, only just another half a billion dollars more expensive. Meanwhile, the panel on the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant is having some decorum issues. And, it’s orange shirt day today. We’ll tell you what that commemorates.
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A meeting of the state panel on the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station became unusually volatile last night, as arguments broke out between the acting chair and others in the room.
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A highly anticipated state hearing last night in Plymouth drew some 100 people to give testimony — or witness the testimony of others — on the proposed release of water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.
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This week: What should happen to a million gallons of radioactive water at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station? The state held a hearing this week that could be a decider. Also: the first dolphin rescue hospital north of Florida is opening… on Cape Cod. And: Outer Cape schools have a problem—not with students, but with housing.