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  The trouble with tritium. What does it have to do with the Pilgrim Power Station? Sarah carlon Cape Cod Times Published Oct 2, 2022 Community members, organizers and the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel packed into Plymouth Town Hall on Monday to hear the latest about the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station's decommissioning. The routine meeting turned tense, however, when scientist Dr. James Conca, invited by Holtec, the company in charge of decommissioning the plant, gave a presentation on the environmental impacts of tritium, a common by-product found in nuclear waste  —  including one million gallons of wastewater still present at the Pilgrim power plant.  The water was previously used to cool the reactor and spent fuel rods that were stored in the water.   "After 50 years of field and laboratory experiments, and environmental and biological monitoring, the scientific community has never observed any humans or organisms to...

  Holtec dumping of radioactive water at NJ plant spurs questions about Pilgrim's future Sarah Carlon Cape Cod Times   Published Sept 23, 2022 PLYMOUTH — As the next public meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission draws closer, recent water discharges from a now-closed New Jersey nuclear power plant have some Cape organizers wondering if the future of Plymouth's shuttered power station is happening in real-time just three states away. The  Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station , located in Forked River, New Jersey, shut down in 2018 and is undergoing decommissioning by Holtec Decommissioning International, the same company in charge of decommissioning the now-closed Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. Neil Sheehan, a public affairs officer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, confirmed the Oyster Creek station released 24,000 gallons of low-level radioactive water from the plant into the surrounding water on Sept. 7, which f...