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The process seems to be moving much slower than at Vermont Yankee, according to a Department of Public Health representative on the state's nuclear panel. At Pilgrim, a dispute over the disposition of radioactive water has led to delays.

The contingent included members of environmental groups, along with associations representing fishermen, charter captains, and the real estate industry. They asked the Healey administration to stop the ongoing evaporation of reactor water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

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.

Over a period of two years, sponsorship of parades and other community events was charged to the ratepayer-funded account. The company says it was a mistake.

A long list of changes would include shrinking the panel from 21 to 15 members, adding more state officials, and placing more emphasis on redevelopment of the Pilgrim property.

The move followed media reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in an email to Congressman Bill Keating’s office, said the company planned to dump contaminated water from the nuclear plant into the bay during the first three months of next year.

The first four boxes of radioactive parts from the reactor at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station have been shipped to Texas for disposal.Holtec, which owns…

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