Overview

THE FACTS
  Re-licensing
   Security
   Radioactive Waste
   Structural Issues
   Health
   Environment
   Emissions
   Monitoring
   Emergency     Planning
   Oversight
   Economics
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Pilgrim Watch is a grassroots organization that serves the public interest in issues regarding the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, MA.

Pilgrim Nuclear Station's license to operate will expire in 2012.

We oppose re-licensing, which would allow Pilgrim to operate until 2032, unless the following standards are met:

	Heightened security to protect against attack from the air, water, and land.
	Safer storage of spent radioactive fuel rods until all spent rods are moved off-site.
	Reduction of allowable radioactive emissions into our air and water.
	Monitors – computer linked to state and local authorities – at all points where radiation is released from Pilgrim and at appropriate off-site locations.
	Replace the water cooling system with one not harmful to marine life.
	Updated emergency planning.
	Meet technical specifications required for new reactors built today, and requirements for aging management program.
	Indeed, all of this can and should be done now!
	Upon Pilgrim’s closing, we support job placement efforts for workers not employed in decommissioning.
	We support development in Plymouth of businesses that do not pose a threat to the health, safety and property values of our community.