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After Pilgrim closes, a nuclear graveyard – Boston Globe

  By David Agnew | 10/15/2015 - 9:54 PM |02/05/2017 Economics, Opinion, Pilgrim
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DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 2011 By The Editorial Board   OCTOBER 14, 2015 CRITICS OF the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth — and there… View post →

Pilgrim nuclear plant a scary prospect for South Shore

  By David Agnew | 10/13/2015 - 9:40 AM |10/13/2015 News >, Opinion, Pilgrim
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By Thomas Farragher GLOBE COLUMNIST OCTOBER 09, 2015 Your spouse calls you into the kitchen. The table is cluttered with… View post →

Tagged Mary Lampert, Thomas Farragher

Letters to Editors and ‘My Views’

  By David Agnew | 10/06/2015 - 7:17 AM |04/20/2017 Featured, Opinion
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Living five miles from Pilgrim – but who’s counting? April 12, 2017; Diana Barker Price A chance to do something… View post →

Letter by Jeff Berger: Plymouth taxpayer’s perspective

  By David Agnew | 09/30/2015 - 10:03 PM |02/05/2017 Economics, Featured, NRC Neglect, Opinion, Pilgrim
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Posted Sep 30, 2015 m.plymouth.wickedlocal.com/article/20150930/NEWS/150939946/13312/OPINION I am chairman emeritus of Plymouth’s appointed Nuclear Matters Committee; the comments that follow are… View post →

Tagged Jeff Berger

Time For A Permanent Shutdown – CapeNews Editorial

  By David Agnew | 09/13/2015 - 7:30 PM |09/13/2015 News >, Opinion, Pilgrim
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Cape News Editorial – Bourne Opinion – Sept. 4, 2015 The good news is that regulators from the Nuclear Regulatory… View post →

Pilgrim’s lack of progress

  By David Agnew | 09/13/2015 - 2:54 PM |09/15/2015 News >, Opinion, Pilgrim
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EDITORIAL Sep. 10, 2015, Cape Cod Times Expand evacuation zone now This past week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared what… View post →

Should the state advocate for closure of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station? – South – The Boston Globe

  By David Agnew | 04/03/2015 - 7:07 AM |04/03/2015 Opinion, Pilgrim
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Boston Globe March 29, 2015 Original (with comments) at BostonGlobe.com YES Anna Linakis Baker Marshfield, co-founder of the Pilgrim Coalition, a… View post →

Transfer to dry cask storage begins with unaddressed issues

  By David Agnew | 02/07/2015 - 5:05 PM |02/07/2015 News >, Opinion, Pilgrim, Waste & Storage
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Transfer to dry cask storage begins while concerns about unaddressed issues continue OPINION by: HEATHER LIGHTNER | February 5, 2015… View post →

Tagged Heather Lightner

Real costs of nuclear power

  By David Agnew | 12/23/2014 - 9:39 AM |12/23/2014 Decommissioning, Economics, Fukushima, Opinion
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“We are beginning to see the true costs of nuclear power generation.” Japan Times, Dec. 22, 2014 Public opinion in… View post →

Tagged TEPCO

Yucca Mountain redux

  By David Agnew | 12/07/2014 - 12:39 PM |12/07/2014 Opinion, Waste & Storage
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Victor Gilinsky 5 NOVEMBER 2014 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists A physicist, Victor Gilinsky is an independent consultant and formerly advised… View post →

Downwind (a poem)

  By David Agnew | 08/21/2014 - 11:02 PM |08/23/2014 Civil Resistance >, Opinion
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DOWNWIND by Rosanne Shapiro I.    We came prepared        with signs        and poetry        and a letter to deliver        peacefully, without resistance     They came prepared        with blue uniforms        and… View post →

Tagged poetry, Rosanne Shapiro

Pilgrim Nuclear and the public’s rights to the shoreline

  By David Agnew | 08/18/2014 - 11:29 PM |08/18/2014 Environment >, Legal, Opinion, Pilgrim
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By Meg Sheehan Posted Aug. 15, 2014 @ 2:00 pm Wicked Local Duxbury Is Entergy Corporation legally occupying the public… View post →

Tagged Boston Edison, Cape Cod Bay, cooling water intake structure, hearing, Meg Sheehan, pollution, tidal, tidelands

Hiroshima and Pilgrim: rational fear

  By David Agnew | 08/10/2014 - 7:02 PM |02/05/2017 Opinion
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By BRENT HAROLD August 05, 2014 It’s debatable whether the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, horror though it was,… View post →

Jalopy nuclear reactors can’t compete with green

  By David Agnew | 08/03/2014 - 11:24 PM |08/03/2014 Health, Opinion
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Letter to the Editor printed in the Cape Cod Times August 3, 2014: John Tudor’s July 19 letter supporting nukes… View post →

Tagged Wasserman

Nukes and tourism, by Brent Harold

  By David Agnew | 06/28/2014 - 6:33 AM |07/25/2014 Featured, Opinion
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(Brent Harold Journal, Cape Cod Times Blog, 27 June 2014) Have nuclear power plants have begun to have an effect… View post →

Tagged Brent Harold, France, Tourism

Diane Turco on the threat from Pilgrim Nuclear – VIDEO

  By David Agnew | 05/27/2014 - 7:29 AM |06/03/2014 Emergency Preparedness, Health, Legal, Opinion, Video
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May 12, 2014 There is no escape from the Cape. Why not remove the threat rather than the people? Close… View post →

Tagged Close Pilgrim, Diane Turco, Entergy, Laura Kelley, NRC, video

Nuclear Power’s Carbon Footprint

  By David Agnew | 05/03/2014 - 9:21 AM |07/25/2014 Environment >, Featured, Health, Opinion, Renewable Energy, Waste & Storage
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by Eric Epstein, April 26, 2014 Remember the environmentalist who proclaimed the dawn of a new day as he drove… View post →

Tagged cleanup, economics, global warming, green energy, greenhouse gases, NEI, Paducah, uranium

Pilgrim’s Cancers – ‘Tobacco Science’ versus fact

  By David Agnew | 04/24/2014 - 3:39 PM |07/25/2014 Featured, Health, Opinion
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By Mary Lampert Apr. 23, 2014 Industries that can harm the public have “tobacco scientists” and lobbyists to promote their… View post →

Tagged cancer, Close Pilgrim, DPH, Entergy, leukemia, Massachusetts Cancer Registry

Ending Pilgrim’s use of Cape Cod Bay

  By David Agnew | 03/28/2014 - 9:57 PM |05/14/2015 Environment >, Featured, Legal, Opinion, Pilgrim
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By Meg Sheehan Posted Feb. 15, 2014 For more than 40 years, the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has… View post →

Tagged Cape Cod Bay, DEP, Entergy, EPA, Meg Sheehan, thermal pollution

Nuclear liability: The market-based, post-Fukushima case for ending Price-Anderson

  By David Agnew | 02/10/2014 - 10:36 PM |02/08/2017 Economics, Opinion, Reactor News >
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Mark Cooper 5 OCTOBER 2011 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The need to revisit and revise regulations regarding financial responsibility… View post →

Tagged accident, economics, externalize, insurance, Price Anderson
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