[…]Duxbury Town Manager Rene Read said the Nuclear Advisory Committee has the support from the Board of Selectmen.
“Members of the Nuclear Advisory Committee will be going to the State House to report to the full committee that the Board of Selectmen, here in Duxbury, support what it is they’re trying to do. We will also submit a letter on the board’s behalf, to them, so they can present it to the committee. We want the representatives and the legislatures to know that we are in support of their actions,” said Read.
The four new bills would increase funding for radiological air monitoring, better surveillance and expansion of the radiological emergency planning zone from 10 miles to either 20 or 50 miles.
Co-chair of the Duxbury Nuclear Advisory Committee Mary Lampert said the United States Government has made these recommendations after the nuclear accident in Japan in 2011.
“The reason 50 miles was suggested was after Fukushima, our government recommended up to 50 miles to evacuate. So it strikes us as odd that with Pilgrim, the exact same design as the reactors as Fukushima, we are not told to evacuate or shelter or take potassium iodide unless we are within 10 miles. It makes no sense,” said Lampert.
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