Tritium Update – May 2017
In May 2017, the Mass. Department of Public Health (MassDPH) published its latest Groundwater Investigation Update for Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. The reports covers testing that occurred...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Sept. 2016 Discharge Monitoring Report
As a regulatory requirement of Entergy’s Clean Water Act permit (NPDES permit), Entergy must publish monthly reports for pollutants discharged into Cape Cod Bay by its Pilgrim Nuclear plant. Entergy...
View ArticleResidents, Groups Voice Concerns to EPA about Pilgrim Environmental Impacts
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) were in Plymouth last Thursday, July 21, to hold a public hearing on Pilgrim’s draft “NPDES”...
View ArticleChronology of Pilgrim’s Tritium Leaks: What’s the Latest?
BACKGROUND: How Pilgrim’s Groundwater Monitoring Began In 2006, the Nuclear Entergy Institute (NEI) proposed that nuclear facilities in the U.S. begin voluntary tritium monitoring in groundwater. This...
View ArticleSummary of Pilgrim’s July 2015 Discharge Monitoring Report
As a regulatory requirement of Entergy’s Clean Water Act permit (NPDES permit), Entergy must publish monthly reports for pollutants discharged into Cape Cod Bay by Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station....
View ArticleMassDPH’s Latest Tritium Update – May 2015
We have been reviewing and reporting on Mass. Dept. of Public Health’s (MassDPH) tritium testing results for Pilgrim Nuclear since 2012. Read our chronology of Pilgrim’s tritium leaks from Apr. 2013 to...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Permits to Pollute
Lesley University intern, Nicole Cameron, writes about Pilgrim’s 1983 and 1988 NPDES permits, and what has transpired with the permit after those expired. Nicki is a 3rd year student at Lesley,...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Troubles in the 1980’s
Lesley University intern, Nicole Cameron, writes about Pilgrim’s 2012 relicensing proceedings. Nicki is a 3rd year student at Lesley, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Spanish and will be...
View ArticleYou Know What’s Really Scary? If Nuclear is Labeled “Green”!
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is developing a Clean Energy Standard (CES) as a part of the state’s Clean Energy and Climate Plan. The overall goal of the plan is to...
View ArticleEntergy Still Not Fixing Leak
Entergy’s Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMR) for April and June show that the leak Entergy had identified on February 27, 2014 still has not been fixed. Entergy’s “Fire Water Tank” has a valve that has...
View ArticleTritium Update – May 2017
In May 2017, the Mass. Department of Public Health (MassDPH) published its latest Groundwater Investigation Update for Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. The reports covers testing that occurred...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Sept. 2016 Discharge Monitoring Report
As a regulatory requirement of Entergy’s Clean Water Act permit (NPDES permit), Entergy must publish monthly reports for pollutants discharged into Cape Cod Bay by its Pilgrim Nuclear plant. Entergy...
View ArticleResidents, Groups Voice Concerns to EPA about Pilgrim Environmental Impacts
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) were in Plymouth last Thursday, July 21, to hold a public hearing on Pilgrim’s draft “NPDES”...
View ArticleecoRI Covers Pilgrim’s Expired Clean Water Act Permit
Click here to read the article on ecoRI’s website >> Pilgrim Power Plant Operating with Expired Permit July 15, 2015 Coalition says requiring nuclear facility to use modern technology would...
View ArticleMassDPH’s Latest Tritium Update – May 2015
We have been reviewing and reporting on Mass. Dept. of Public Health’s (MassDPH) tritium testing results for Pilgrim Nuclear since 2012. Read our chronology of Pilgrim’s tritium leaks from Apr. 2013 to...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Permits to Pollute
Lesley University intern, Nicole Cameron, writes about Pilgrim’s 1983 and 1988 NPDES permits, and what has transpired with the permit after those expired. Nicki is a 3rd year student at Lesley,...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Troubles in the 1980s
Lesley University intern, Nicole Cameron, writes about Pilgrim’s 2012 relicensing proceedings. Nicki is a 3rd year student at Lesley, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Spanish and will be...
View ArticleMichigan Nuclear Station Polluted Lake Michigan For Months
The Donald C. Cook Nuclear Station leaked about 2,000 gallons of oil into Lake Michigan over a two-month period, according to this January 5, 2015 article in the Huffington Post. The leak went...
View ArticlePollution of the Plymouth-Carver Sole Source Aquifer Continues
On Jan. 15th, the public learned that excessive levels of tritium (a radioactive form of Hydrogen) were found in groundwater samples at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. In a Jan. 15th report to...
View ArticleIt’s Time for EPA to Terminate Entergy’s Permit to Pollute Cape Cod Bay
Despite a public outcry over the past year, U.S. EPA is still allowing Entergy operate the Pilgrim plant with a Clean Water Act permit that expired 18 years ago. Certainly, none of us would be allowed...
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