Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station
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Currently the only nuclear power plant operating in Massachusetts, Pilgrim Station is located a few miles down the coast from Plymouth Rock in the Manomet region of Plymouth. Like many similar plants, it was constructed by Bechtel, and is powered by a General Electric boiling water reactor and generator.
Built at a cost of $231 million in 1972 by Boston Edison, it was sold in 1999 to the Louisiana-based Entergy Corporation, part of a complex deal that is the result of deregulation of the electrical utility industry.
As with all of the more than 100 nuclear power plants in the country, Pilgrim keeps its spent nuclear fuel in an on-site storage pool, waiting for a federal decision to determine where to inter the waste for the thousands of years it remains radioactive. The Yucca Mountain site in Nevada is the only location being considered for this purpose.
Pilgrim's license to operate expires in 2012.
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