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Opponents ask Legislature to bar Pilgrim decommissioner from evaporating radioactive wastewater
Summary
Multiple witnesses, including local officials, physicians and fishing industry representatives, urged the committee to block Holtec’s practice of evaporating chemically and radioactively contaminated water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station decommissioning process, and to require independent health study and alternative disposal plans.
Local residents, public‑health advocates and commercial fishermen urged the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources to advance legislation that would halt or strictly limit evaporation or discharge of chemically and radioactively contaminated wastewater generated during the Pilgrim nuclear plant decommissioning.
Speakers testified that Holtec International — the licensee overseeing Pilgrim’s decommissioning — has been evaporating treated, then reportedly contaminated water and that community members and industry groups are concerned about airborne release and ocean discharges. ‘‘The Plymouth community has been told that aerosolizing radioactive waste is a safe method of disposal, but saying so does not make it so,’’ said Dr. Bridal Lundberg, representing medical groups and research consortia assembled to study…
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