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...Boston Edison power company has mismanaged the Pilgrim nuclear plant and used it to bilk the public, an activist research group argues in a recent report...
...addition, MassPIRG disputes Boston Edison's claim that the plant, once running at full capacity, would save ratepayers money...
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...
...safety, Nogee said the plant is cooled by corrosive salt water, has suffered 16 years of "management abuse" and has a containment design which the NRC has found would fail in 90 percent of all serious accidents...
ENVIRONMENT: An aging nuclear plant comes under fire...