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...Question 4 fails, we will continue to have a factory of toxic waste festering in our backyard. A "Yes" vote on this binding referendum would close Massachusetts' notorious Pilgrim and Yankee Rowe plants, two of the most dangerous nuclear power plants in the country. Pilgrim is simply referred to by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the worst-run nuclear plant in the country; Rowe is the oldest in the country and called by the Union of Concerned Scientist one of the five most likely plants to have a serious nuclear accident...
...binding resolution passed last Monday by a vote of five to two, with two abstentions. Proposed by Councillor Walter J. Sullivan Jr., it argued that Massachusetts energy supplies are already at critically short levels, and that the closure of the Pilgrim and Yankee Rowe plants will seriously threaten the state's existing energy production capabilities...
...said NRC officals found that an accident would break Pilgrim's containment system only once in 10 million reactor years, because it includes dozens of safety features...
...report finds Boston Edison makes about $20 million per year on rate increases meant to pay for the reactor, even though Pilgrim is closed...
According to Alan Nogee, the report's author, it would cost $350,000 a day to keep Pilgrim closed and get power elsewhere, but it costs $900,000 each day to run the plant even while it is closed...