Gloucester Daily Times, Mass.
New Hampshire State Sen. Debra Altschiller who represents District 24 and spoke to supporter of C-10.
SEABROOK — C-10 safety organization members and supporters will travel to the Isles of Shoals on July 14 to celebrate the new nuclear radiation monitoring site recently installed on Star Island.
Among the officials attending will be New Hampshire State Sen. Debra Altschiller who represents District 24 and who will be speaking during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The senator’s district is entirely within the 10-mile emergency planning zone (EPZ) for Seabrook Station at 626 Lafayette Road Former N.H. state Rep. Peter Somssich of Rockingham 27 will also be in attendance. Sommisch was a leader in the NH Citizens’ Monitoring Initiative in 2016 which kicked off the expansion of C-10’s radiological monitoring in the Granite State.
The new site’s data will join the data from 19 other monitoring sites that C-10 has installed, serviced, and employed over the past 30 years in the Seabrook emergency planning zone. The emergency planning zone with a radius of 10 miles from the plant comprises 17 northeastern Massachusetts and coastal New Hampshire communities, and radiation monitoring sites enable C-10 to monitor beta and gamma rays emitted by the Seabrook plant 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the year.
Tthe plant sits about 17 miles northwest — as the seagull flies — from parts of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. All of Cape Ann in Massachusetts is in the station’s 50-mile Ingestion Exposure Pathway.
C-10’s data is shared with the Massachusetts Department of Health.
More information about the installation celebration and about C-10 is available on C-10’s website, c-10.org, or by calling C-10’s headquarters in Amesbury, Massachusetts.