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Bo Jacobs

"Radioactive water continues to be a flashpoint in cleanup of Pilgrim nuclear site.

But the reactor building still stands, and within it sits a problem: nearly a million gallons of radioactive wastewater."

wbur.org/news/2024/10/24/pilgr

WBURRadioactive water continues to be a flashpoint in cleanup of Pilgrim nuclear site | WBUR NewsBy Barbara Moran

@bojacobs

Here we see the ‘pay later’ side of deeply subsidized consumer energy pricing.

The issue is not unique to nukes, as Earth’s ice sheets, sea levels, atmospheric gas concentrations, air/sea temperatures and weather patterns have long been signalling…