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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Alternatives sought to dumping of contaminated water into Cape Cod Bay

 

Alternatives sought to dumping of contaminated water into Cape Cod Bay


Doug Fraser 
Cape Cod Times 
Published Jan 15, 2022 

Opposition to a proposal to dump up to 1 million gallons of treated radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay continues to burn brightly among local elected officials.

U.S. Reps. William Keating and Seth Moulton, along with U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, sent a letter this week to the company decommissioning the closed Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. They urged Holtec Decommissioning International, which has considered releasing the water used to cool spent nuclear fuel rods and the reactor at Pilgrim, "to pursue — and publicly share information about — alternative methods of disposal."

"Forcing this latest discharge upon the community would threaten the reputations and operations of the many businesses and organizations that rely on Cape Cod Bay's reputation for clean and safe water," the four Massachusetts federal delegation members wrote in the Jan. 12 letter to Holtec's president Kelly Trice.

"The strong public opposition to news of the proposed discharge reflects Holtec’s failure to engage in the forthright, open, and transparent process that it promised the Plymouth community and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when it took over the operating license for the decommissioning of Pilgrim," the letter stated.

Dry casks hold spent fuel rods in storage on a pad at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth in December 2020. A proposal by the company decommissioning the closed plant to dump up to 1 million gallons of treated radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay has drawn opposition in the region.

The possibility that Holtec was considering releasing up to 1 million gallons of radioactive water into the bay was revealed by state Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Regional Director Seth Pickering at a decommissioning citizens' advisory panel meeting Nov. 22. It was contemplated as one way to get rid of water in a pool used to store spent nuclear fuel rods and water in the "donut" that helps cool the reactor.  






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