Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 10.15.15

SHUTTING THE PILGRIM NUKE is our primary focus of our roundtable talk with four tremendous activists.  Pilgrim’s owner, ENTERGY, has announced it will close the ancient nuke by June 1, 2019.  But the reactor is out of compliance on a large number of safety and engineering issues and will put the region at risk if it goes forward.  
SHEILA PARKS, Boston-area founder of On Behalf of Planet Earth; ARLENE WILLIAMS of Cape Downwinder; TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service and PAUL GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear join us to cover the issue.

Among other concerns are violations of fire safety requirement now nearly a quarter-century out of compliance; spent fuel overflowing the site’s ability to handle it; a dertioriating work force and much more.

The latest shut-down announcement would take the US reactor fleet to 98, the lowest total in many years.  But can we survive Pilgrim & its ancient siblings operating even another fuel cycle?

Stay tuned….