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03/31/2026

03/13/2026

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/healeys-shift-toward-nuclear-energy-raises-affordability-feasibility-questions/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DL%2003-11-2026&utm_source=2&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Healey%20s%20shift%20toward%20nuclear%20energy%20raises%20affordability%2C%20feasibility%20questions&utm_campaign=DL%2003-11-2026

The argument for nuclear is, in some ways, simple. It doesn’t generate greenhouse gas emissions and reliably produces power. But it’s no slam dunk either. Building new nuclear facilities is notoriously expensive and time-consuming.

02/26/2026

https://mailchi.mp/138665728ca8/support-amendment-31

The House vote for Bill 5151 is tomorrow, we need your help now!

02/24/2026

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69285-4

‘Populations residing near nuclear power plants may experience low-level chronic exposure to ionizing radiation through environmental release pathways. In here the authors find higher cancer mortality rates in U.S. counties closer to operational nuclear power plants, with the strongest relative ri...

02/04/2026

** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE **

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Awarded Funding to Study Health Effects
of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

February 4, 2026
Media contact: Anna Linakis, Executive Director, Greater Boston PSR
Email: [email protected] / Phone: (617) 239-1977

Brookline, Mass. – February 3, 2026 – Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) is pleased to announce that it is to receive $700,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) to coordinate a project investigating the health and radiologic impacts of the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Plymouth MA) on neighboring communities.

GBPSR is grateful to Senators Markey and Warren in advocating for and helping secure federal funds to carry out this urgently needed comprehensive health study.

GBPSR will administer the project and convene an expert panel to inform its direction and review its results. Dr. Petros Koutrakis, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will oversee the health study. GBPSR will be working with a consortium of public health entities, which include, in addition to Harvard SPH, Dr. Philip Landrigan’s Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College and the Massachusetts Medical Society. Local community groups, including Save the Bay, Cape Downwinders and Pilgrim Watch, offered their endorsement for this project and will be key to its implementation.

In the United States, little is known about community exposures and related health impacts from nuclear power station decommissioning. This project will establish ambient monitoring sites at outdoor sites in southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod in the airshed of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to assess levels of particle radiation; assess exposures to particle radiation in community members living near each monitoring site; and assemble an expert panel of scientists, public health professionals and others with expertise in radiation and health to evaluate the current radiation issues regarding decommissioning nuclear power plants and to evaluate the data collected in this study and disseminate the findings to the local community and to elected officials.

This project is important to the health of citizens of Massachusetts as there are few studies of the health impacts of nuclear power plants in general and no studies of the health effects of decommissioning nuclear power plants specifically. This would be the first study of particle radiation emitted during decommissioning of a nuclear plant in the United States.

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Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is a physician-led non-profit advocacy organization with approximately 1,600 members. Our chapter includes experts in public health, cancer epidemiology, occupational medicine, environmental health, emergency medicine, and disaster preparedness.

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01/14/2026

https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001NUYg7IAH&mapLinkHref=

A Sierra Club conversation with the Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs

12/23/2025

https://www.plymouthindependent.org/harvard-study-finds-proximity-to-nuclear-plants-increases-cancer-risk/

A new Harvard University study has found that cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants, including the now shut down Pilgrim station in Manomet. “We found that living near nuclear power plants increases the risk for cancer,” said Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental...

12/19/2025

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/cancer-risk-may-increase-with-proximity-to-nuclear-power-plants/

In Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining by distance, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.

12/04/2025

Please sign on to this letter to reject the repeal of the state law that gives us a vote regarding new nuclear power.

Sign our Letter Campaign to Rep. Cusack:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-h4744-remove-section-80?source=direct_link&

12/04/2025

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-rep-cusacks-bill-rolling-back-mass-environmental-efforts?source=direct_link&

Please write to oppose Rep. Cusack’s legislation undercutting Massachusetts landmark Climate Laws! This bill circumvented a vote of the joint Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee in the Legislature, and is now moving toward the Ways and Means Committee. This letter will be sent to al...

11/22/2025

https://conta.cc/3M05Thi

Email from Cape Downwinders Stand up-NO to airborne radioactive discharge from Holtec-Pilgrim   Contacts: Diane Turco Cape Downwinders Phone:508.776.3132 Email: [email protected] Mary Lampert Pilgrim

11/17/2025

Please write to oppose Rep. Cusack’s legislation undercutting Massachusetts landmark Climate Laws! This bill circumvented a vote of the joint Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee in the Legislature, and is now moving toward the Ways and Means Committee. This letter will be sent to al...