The NYS rules for Indian Point are different. Our DEC has been reluctant to get involved. We hope to change that…
“The rejection from the Massachusetts environment department comes months after Holtec drew the ire of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its plan to discharge Pilgrim’s wastewater, which would largely come from the plant’s 40-foot-deep pool used to cool off spent fuel rods. The EPA in December told the company that any discharge would violate the terms of its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, which as written bars any releases from the plant’s spent fuel pool.”