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Friday
Feb062015

Entergy's Pilgrim suffered "a major loss of emergency assessment capability" during severe winter storm "Juno"

As this weather map shows, Pilgrim bore the brunt of winter storm "Juno."Pilgrim's bad week is turning into a bad month. As revealed by a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) "Event Notification Report" on Feb. 6th, Entergy Nuclear's Pilgrim atomic reactor on Cape Cod Bay south of Boston, MA suffered "a major loss of emergency assessment capability," during the severe winter storm nicknamed "Juno" on Jan. 27th. The report did not explain why it took ten days to report the incident. More.