Island activists and local lawmakers say they will keep the pressure on Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station owners to decommission the aging boiling water reactor quickly and safely, following a decision to close the plant.
If there’s trouble at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant and it blows that way it will just destroy the regenerated heath hen and the new oyster farm near Eastville Beach.
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and design General Electric reactors at Fukushima still dangerously out of control, I think it is worthwhile reviewing just what the federal government’s rationale for spawning the commercial nuclear power industry was in the first place.
Having lived for 35 years downwind of the Indian Point (IP) nuclear station on the shores of the Hudson River in New York, and teaching physical science at a college nearby, our proximity to Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has alarmed me, especially since the Fukushima catastrophe three years ago.
Activists from Cape Cod who are pushing for the closure of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth brought their cause to the Island at a public forum early this week. Fukushima was a wake-up call, they said.
A movement to close the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is gaining ground on the Vineyard. A public forum is set for tonight at 7 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. Cape and Islands Sen. Dan Wolf will attend.
At the annual town meeting in Oak Bluffs next Tuesday, April 8, there will be a resolution to vote on requesting a responsible decommission and shutdown of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth.
Because of the extreme danger posed to the Cape and Islands should an accident occur at the aging, failing Pilgrim power plant, concerned people are working to place a full page ad in the Sunday Cape Cod Times asking to close Pilgrim now.
