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Thursday, June 13, 2019

NRC says fuel removed from Pilgrim Reactor - News - southcoasttoday.com - New Bedford, MA

NRC says fuel removed from Pilgrim Reactor - News - southcoasttoday.com - New Bedford, MA: BOSTON — The shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has removed all fuel from its reactor and is now shifting into a different level of oversight from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, regulators said Tuesday.The Plymouth plant had been generating about 680 megawatts of electricity since coming online in 1972, and officially shut down May 31. The NRC said that Pilgrim's owner, Entergy Corp., informed it on Monday that the plant has "certified cessation of power

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