Press Release-I-19-002, NRC to Hold Public Meeting for Comments on Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning Activities Report

Press Release-I-19-002: NRC to Hold Public Meeting for Comments on Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning Activities Report

ML19008A062
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	01/08/2019
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No: I-19-002 January 8, 2019

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Diane Screnci, 610-337-5330 Neil Sheehan, 610-337-5331 NRC to Hold Public Meeting for Comments on Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning Activities Report The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a public meeting on Jan. 15 in Plymouth, Mass., to discuss a decommissioning roadmap report for the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. Attendees will be able to provide comments at the meeting.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., at Hotel 1620, located at 180 Water St., in Plymouth.

Entergy, which owns the single-reactor Plymouth facility, submitted its Pilgrim Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report to the NRC on Nov. 16. Among other details, it describes the companys plans to put the plant into SAFSTOR, or long-term storage, prior to beginning dismantlement work.

Holtec, which plans to acquire Pilgrim and decommission it in an expedited manner, has submitted its own PSDAR for the plant. Since an application to transfer the plants NRC license from Entergy to Holtec remains under review, the report is currently being handled as a supplement to the application.

Public comments on the Pilgrim PSDAR will be taken until March 21. A Federal Register notice provides information on how to submit comments in writing.

Pilgrim is scheduled to permanently cease operations by June 1, 2019.