S. HRG. 100-598

RESTART OF THE PILGRIM I
NUCLEAR POWERPLANT

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

EXAMINING THE PROPOSED RESTART OF THE PLYMOUTH, MA, NUCLE-
AR POWERPLANT, AND THE POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

83-478

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1988

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts, Chairman

THOMAS M. ROLLINS, Staff Director and Chief Counsel KEVIN S. MCGUINESS, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel

CONTENTS

STATEMENTS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1988, PLYMOUTH, MA

Agnes, Peter, Assistant Secretary of Public Safety; Sharon Pollard, Secretary of State of Energy; and Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Health Commissioner Prepared statements of:

Mr. Agnes........

Dr. Prothrow-Stith...

Alexander, Lawrence, State Representative; Peter Forman, State Representative; David Malaguti, chairman of the Plymouth Board of Selectmen; and Rachel Shimshak, Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group

Prepared statements of:

Mr. Alexander.

Mr. Forman...

Ms. Shimshak.

Bosen, Theodore, Anti-Nuclear Board member, prepared statement
Boston Edison Co., prepared statement....

Cobb, Dr. Sidney, prepared statement (with attachments).
Golden, William, State Senator, Norfolk, Plymouth District; Grace Healy,
chairperson of Plymouth Committee on Nuclear Matters; Mary Ott, co-
chairperson of Citizens Urging Responsible Energy; Neil Johnson, chairper-
son of the Duxbury Citizens Committee on Nuclear Matters; Ann Waitkus-
Arnold, chairperson of the Disabled Persons Advisory Group on Nuclear
Evacuation for the State Office on Handicap Affairs, and William Abbott,
president of the Plymouth County Nuclear Information Committee, Inc ........
Prepared statements of:

Mr. Golden

Mr. Abbott....

Ms. Waitkus-Arnold

Mr. Johnson..

Ms. Ott (with attachments)..

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Dr. Healy (with attachments).

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Kerry, Hon. John F., prepared statement (with an attachment)

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Kirby, Hon. Edward P., State Senator, Second Plymouth District, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, prepared statement.....

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Krimm, Richard, Assistant Associate Director of FEMA; Dr. Thomas Murley,
Director of the NCR's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations; William Rus-
sell, NCR's Regional Administrator, Region I; and Jack Doland, FEMA
Region I.......

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Prepared statements of:

Mr. Krimm (with an attachment)
Mr. Murley......

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Kugelmann, Eileen, director, Mass Safe Energy Alliance (SEA): Cape Cod,