Courtesy: pilgrimpower.com
MARTHA’S VINEYARD – Protestors calling for the closure of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth will be on the Vineyard today.
The Cape Downwinders will be protesting at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair.
The group wants the station shutdown and is also calling for the state to expand the emergency planning zone around the plant to 50 miles, which would include all of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.
The current emergency planning zone is 10 miles and includes six towns.
Pilgrim was very close to being forced to directly vent radioactive steam into the environment / neighborhood. They used every last line of defense they had, including dumping radioactive steam into the old BWR Torus aka Surge Tank.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/02/pilgrim-nuclear-in-boston-came-very.html
Even then the heat in the surge tank got so high, they had to use an emergency heat exchanger to cool the surge tank. Fortunately it worked. If that last piece of equipment had failed it would have been a serious accident with radiation exposure to the public.
Pilgrim had the same types of equipment problems in the last 2 years, and FAILED to fix them, and the NRC failed on adequate follow up.