{"id":3322,"date":"2026-01-02T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafethorium.whoi.edu\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:39:43","slug":"rethinking-ocean-disposal-of-pilgrim-wastewater-guest-commentary-falmouth-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/rethinking-ocean-disposal-of-pilgrim-wastewater-guest-commentary-falmouth-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Ocean Disposal Of Pilgrim Wastewater (guest commentary, Falmouth Enterprise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capenews.net\/falmouth\/opinion\/guest-commentary-rethinking-ocean-disposal-of-pilgrim-wastewater\/article_9bf94cd1-9967-471f-ab9a-8b1e2098d5ce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen or read<\/a> this new commentary by Ken Buessler regarding the potential disposal of wastewater from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant on Cape Cod Bay, MA.<\/p>\n<p>Published January 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A December 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capenews.net\/falmouth\/opinion\/big-questions-about-holtecs-assurances---editorial\/article_39e4e13e-6b4c-47ee-8439-2a3748d022c0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial<\/a> in the Enterprise about the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station made the case that there are still big questions about Holtec\u2019s assertion that the release of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay is the best choice in the process of decommissioning the plant. The article highlighted Holtec\u2019s poor track record with safety violations and ended by asking for more data about what is in the wastewater and what is now entering the air via the intentional evaporation of this wastewater. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capenews.net\/falmouth\/opinion\/guest-commentary-rethinking-ocean-disposal-of-pilgrim-wastewater\/article_9bf94cd1-9967-471f-ab9a-8b1e2098d5ce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK TO READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen or read this new commentary by Ken Buessler regarding the potential disposal of wastewater from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant on Cape Cod Bay, MA. Published January 2, 2026. A December 5 editorial in the Enterprise about the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station made the case that there are still big questions about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12,44],"tags":[47,28,45],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fresh-brew","category-news","category-opinion","tag-nuclear-wastewater","tag-opinion","tag-pilgrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}