Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant sits in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the western shore of Cape Cod Bay. If you picture Cape Cod as a flexed arm, that would be the shoulder.
It needs to be closed, and here is why.
During the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 2014 inspection of 94 plants in the United States, three of the plants, including the Pilgrim plant, received the lowest ratings because of degraded performance levels.
The power plant was built 42 year ago with a 40 year life expectancy, but was re-licensed for an additional 20 years until 2032, in spite of its poor rating and with no corrective actions being taken.
It is the same plant model as Fukishima which, as many people have forgotten, is still leaking with that leakage heading toward America’s West Coast.
There are 3,200 spent rods stored in a facility with a tin roof designed to hold only 800.
Even though it has been designated as one of the top 8 seaside terror targets by the Pentagon, 2 protestors walked through its front gate and into the actual facility finding no one in the front office. To make matters worse, they used the “visitor” phone, but no one answered it.
Now, for those who vacation on Cape Cod, live here seasonally, or plan to do either in the future, they need to know, as most Cape residence do, that there is no evacuation plan in the event something goes wrong at the old and faulty plant. Anyone on the Cape has to “shelter in place” as the two canal bridges will be closed. If you stay in your house you will have only 10% protection, or if you can stay in a cellar with no windows, 40%.
Anytime you leave your home to spend some time on Cape Cod, it could be the last time you see your home, family, or friends. It brings new meaning to Thomas Wolfe’s book “you can’t go home again”.
Because the whole of Cape Cod is within the “ingestion pathway zone” all food and water will be poisoned by radiation, and even if you could leave the Cape, in order to get away from the red danger zone you would have to drive toward the worst of the danger before you can start to head away from it.
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It has been said that once everyone on the other side of the canal has left the danger zone, the bridges will be opened so everyone on the Cape can try to leave. During the summer months, the traffic to the bridges is bad enough when only some people head home after their vacation when there is tourist turn over. Imagine the traffic when everyone, all tourists and residents, attempts to leave at the same time.
Traffic is not going to move.
The only viable option is to swim East.
And all of this danger and its threat to health, family , livelihood, property, and environment for a mere 5% of the state’s energy needs.
Before it is too late, the NRC needs to decommission the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant.
It’s a sad commentary when, along with the usual signs of the Cape preparing for tourist season with restaurants re-opening, ply-wood being taken down from store fronts, and large numbers of people buying lots of cleaning supplies from local merchants, an additional sign of the approaching tourist season are signs appearing in front of town halls reminding tourists to stop in to get their two complementary Potassium Iodide pills to protect their thyroid glands for a total of 48 hours in case of a nuclear accident at Plymouth.
This is not to say that nuclear power is an intrinsic evil, nor is it to say that nuclear is not a viable source of power. It is to say, however, that it must be safe, and a faulty power plant that will be around for 62 years when it was designed to last for only 40 years, and is one of the three lowest rated such plant should be closed.
Is it really something that we want to pass on to our children and grandchildren?
