A long-awaited appeal hearing on the proposed discharge of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station starts Thursday in Boston.
The owner of Pilgrim, Holtec International, is appealing a decision last summer by the Department of Environmental Protection to block the release of reactor-system water into Cape Cod Bay. The department denied Holtec a modified permit, saying the plan was illegal under the state’s Ocean Sanctuaries Act.
The hearing is scheduled to last four days — June 12, 13, 17, and 18 — before a presiding officer in the department’s Office of Appeals and Dispute Resolution…