Pilgrim nuclear power plant closed down (again)
A leak shuts down the plant on Cape Cod Bay
The nuclear power plant five miles north of Sandwich on Cape Cod Bay.
With the eyes of the world still focused on the nuclear accident in Fukishima, Japan, residents from Cape Cod to Plymouth are still raising questions about the safety of nuclear plants in the U.S., particularly Pilgrim Nuclear Station which is on Cape Cod Bay only a couple miles north of Sandwich.
Monday morning around 5:25 a.m. the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth was shut down again to investigate a minor leak on one of the plant’s four safety relief valves.
Carol Wightman, a spokesperson for Pilgrim parent company Entergy, said the incident is not related to the seven-day shutdown of the plant that ended a week ago.
Wightman said the leak did not represent a public safety threat because it was contained within the plant. She also declined to comment about how long the plant would remain offline.
Read the Patriot Journal story about the earlier shutdown here. Read the story about Monday's shutdown in the Boston Globe here.
Read the previous stories on the plant here.
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