96 Organizations Join Call to Suspend NRC Pilgrim License Transfer

Beyond Nuclear and 95 other groups sent a letter to NRC raising serious concerns about the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) rubber-stamp transferring the license for Pilgrim atomic reactor to Holtec International.

CapeCodToday has a listing of the signatory groups posted, here.

Also posted there are quotes from several representatives of several of the groups.

Here is the one from Beyond Nuclear:

"Holtec has been implicated in bribery, paid a hefty fine, and was even barred from contracting with a federal agency over it," said Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear. "Then Holtec's CEO Krishna Singh provided false information about it under oath to the State of New Jersey, to secure a tax break worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A company with so many skeletons in its closet cannot be trusted with decommissioning trust funds collectively worth billions, let alone the cleanup of radioactive contamination, and high-level radioactive waste management. NRC's rubber-stamp complicity, as at the Pilgrim nuclear reactor in Massachusetts, cannot stand," Kamps added.

Here is a direct link to the letter itself.