Holtec’s lethal plans — video

Massachusetts Peace Action hosted a webinar recently on nuclear waste, focused on Holtec’s activities in Massachusetts and New Mexico. Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and Melissa Harding-Ferretti of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe addressed Holtec’s decision to vent evaporated tritium from the closed Pilgrim, MA nuclear power plant, where the company has the decommissioning contract. An attempt to dump liquid tritium into Cape Cod Bay has already been defeated. Rose Gardner from Alliance for Environmental Strategies, and Douglas Meiklejohn, a lawyer with Conservation Voters New Mexico talked about Holtec’s plan to build a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for radioactive waste in their state against the wishes of the local community. Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter provided an over-view and moderated the discussion.

Watch the webinar