More Groundwater Pollution Problems at Pilgrim: Wastewater Treatment
Pilgrim’s on-site industrial wastewater treatment facility has been a source of groundwater contamination for many years – potentially polluting the Plymouth-Carver Sole Source Aquifer as well as Cape...
View ArticleEPA Webinar & Comments Requested – Water Protection
You are invited to join Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a webinar about “Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations,” and how it relates to water protection in...
View ArticlePilgrim Springs a New Leak
As a regulatory requirement, Entergy periodically publishes a water pollution report for Pilgrim called a Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR). They must collect wastewater samples, conduct chemical tests...
View ArticlePlymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant Update
One year ago, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an Administrative Order to the Town of Plymouth for violating the Clean Water Act by discharging improperly treated sewage into Plymouth Harbor....
View ArticleNuclear Power’s Carbon Footprint
This is an open letter written by Eric Epstein, Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert , Inc. (TMIA), a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and founded in 1977. TMIA monitors Peach...
View ArticleAction Alert! Tell WBUR, WATD, and WBZ: Pilgrim does NOT supply “clean” energy!
The radio stations WBUR, WATD, and WBZ have recently been running Entergy sponsor messages promoting Pilgrim as a “clean” and “emission-free” energy source. We are extremely disappointed that these...
View ArticleStudents Send Letters to Senator About Pilgrim
Cape Cod Bay Watch’s campaign manager Karen Vale recently visited a Weymouth High School class to talk to students about the environmental harms that the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is causing in...
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 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 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 ArticleMedia Release: Entergy Water Pollution at Pilgrim Nuclear Is Subject of...
Plymouth, MA –Entergy Corporation could be could be liable for up to $831,325,000.00 in civil penalties for polluting Cape Cod Bay at its Pilgrim nuclear reactor. According to a letter sent to the...
View ArticleDirty Dozen Report Lists Pilgrim Nuclear for Third Time Since 2001
We share this media release from the Toxics Action Center (TAC) of Boston. One note: TAC tells us Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has been named to the list three times since 2001. DIRTY DOZEN...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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”...
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