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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Lawmakers seek safeguards on nuclear plant decommissioning - News - The Taunton Daily Gazette, Taunton, MA - Taunton, MA

Lawmakers seek safeguards on nuclear plant decommissioning - News - The Taunton Daily Gazette, Taunton, MA - Taunton, MA: BOSTON -- Lawmakers are seeking additional influence over the decommissioning of the recently shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, but a representative for the company conducting the work argued Wednesday that those attempts may be unconstitutional. Tom Joyce, a lobbyist for Holtec Decommissioning International, said that bills imposing higher clean-up standards (H 2904 / S 1949) or reforming how decommissioning is funded (S 1948, S 1992) would exceed the state's authority and infringe on

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