Blog Post
Celebrating 30 years of C-10!
- By Natalie Hildt Treat
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- 29 Sep, 2021
The weather gods cooperated, and C-10 supporters and friends gathered for a wonderful celebration at the Salisbury Beach State Reservation on Saturday, September 25. It was a wonderful afternoon connecting with the people who have made C-10's work possible for so many years... and looking towards the future!
We were thrilled to hear remarks from Sandra Gavutis, C-10's founding executive director, who recounted a brief history of our group's early days.
Many, many people in the communities surrounding Seabrook Station were gravely concerned about the construction of a nuclear reactor in their midst. They questioned how evacuation would ever be possible in the event of a radiological emergency, and they were concerned about the health implications of living so close to a reactor that is licensed to release small amounts of radioactive materials as a part of normal operation.
Ultimately, the C-10 Research and Education Foundation was incorporated, with real-time radiological monitoring the core of our mission. C-10 has been partly funded by the Massachusetts state legislature since 1992, with assessments on Seabrook Station that are used for a variety of public health and emergency planning programs, including the Citizens Radiological Monitoring Network.
An active citizenry, the leadership of elected officials, and the press telling to stories that matter—these are all part of the equation in C-10's work for public safety and environmental health. We were pleased to see so many founding members of C-10, and honored to receive legislative citations from State Rep. James Kelcourse and Senator Diana DiZoglio.
There's more important work to be done. The aging concerns at Seabrook—degrading concrete chief among them—the increasing threats to our coastal region of severe weather and storm surge, all reasons that C-10's watchful eye, advocacy and education are more important than ever.
Thanks to all who came out to be with us. If you couldn't make it, you were with us in spirit!
We were thrilled to hear remarks from Sandra Gavutis, C-10's founding executive director, who recounted a brief history of our group's early days.
Many, many people in the communities surrounding Seabrook Station were gravely concerned about the construction of a nuclear reactor in their midst. They questioned how evacuation would ever be possible in the event of a radiological emergency, and they were concerned about the health implications of living so close to a reactor that is licensed to release small amounts of radioactive materials as a part of normal operation.
Ultimately, the C-10 Research and Education Foundation was incorporated, with real-time radiological monitoring the core of our mission. C-10 has been partly funded by the Massachusetts state legislature since 1992, with assessments on Seabrook Station that are used for a variety of public health and emergency planning programs, including the Citizens Radiological Monitoring Network.
An active citizenry, the leadership of elected officials, and the press telling to stories that matter—these are all part of the equation in C-10's work for public safety and environmental health. We were pleased to see so many founding members of C-10, and honored to receive legislative citations from State Rep. James Kelcourse and Senator Diana DiZoglio.
There's more important work to be done. The aging concerns at Seabrook—degrading concrete chief among them—the increasing threats to our coastal region of severe weather and storm surge, all reasons that C-10's watchful eye, advocacy and education are more important than ever.
Thanks to all who came out to be with us. If you couldn't make it, you were with us in spirit!
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Tritium is a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission, found in abundance in nuclear wastewater. The Cape Cod community wants to be safe from it, corporate industry and regulators want to dump into the air and water and forget it ever existed.
C-10 does not agree with the NRC's assertion that "everything is fine, nothing to see here" when it comes to Seabrook Station repeatedly failing inspections.
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