Eco-Nuclear Solutions respectfully asks Massachusetts to take a break and carefully consider our path forward. The decisions we make today will have an enormous impact on our future and our children’s future.
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Healey, Lamont eyeing possible nuclear/wind deal
Healey is signaling that she might agree to purchase power from the Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut if in return Connecticut buys a chunk of the output of the proposed Vineyard Wind 2 wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
Posted inOpinion
Physician group’s radiation warning way overblown
n short, careful thorough research has taught us that ionizing radiation is indeed a carcinogen, but a very weak one, even at massively high doses.
Posted inEnvironment
A warning about radioactive air pollution from Pilgrim
“Whatever is in the reactor water can evaporate along with the water,” said Dr. Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental sciences at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “The idea that only water comes out is wrong.”
Posted inEnergy, Environment, State House News Service
Healey administration nixes plan for Plymouth nuclear wastewater
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE REGULATORS denied a bid by the company in charge of decommissioning the nuclear power plant in Plymouth to discharge 1.1 million gallons of industrial wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. After years of local opposition to the company’s discharge plan, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the draft determination Monday, […]
Posted inThe Download
Energy forecast: Good today, future uncertain
The forecast for today calls for mostly sunny skies with the high temperature in the upper 60s and the low around 52 degrees. It’s ideal weather from an energy perspective – not so hot that an air conditioner is needed and not so cold that the heat needs to be turned on. In weather like […]
Posted inThe Download
A nuclear dinosaur
What do you do with an aging nuclear power plant that is going to be closed anyway in a little more than a year? As the shutdown date for the Pilgrim nuclear power plant approaches, the 45-year-old facility in Plymouth is coughing and wheezing all the way to the grave, and local officials and activists are worried […]
Posted inThe Download
A nuclear reminder
For most of those who live and play on Cape Cod Bay and the northern coast at the New Hampshire and Massachusetts borders, the cement structures housing aging nuclear generators have become just another part of the landscape. But some 45 years after the Pilgrim plant in Plymouth received the first of three 20-year licenses, the […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download
Nuclear wasted
Since the Shippingport Atomic Power Plant in Pennsylvania went online nearly 60 years ago, becoming the first peacetime use of nuclear power in the world, proponents have touted the low cost and clean output of nukes, which can supply energy for generations. More than 130 nuclear plants were built in the ensuing years, including two […]