When was seabrook power plant built

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Support Local News. In this April 30, AP file photo, a portion of the more than anti-nuclear power demonstrators march toward the front gate of the Seabrook nuclear power station construction site in Seabrook, N.

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Traditionally, winter renters moved out in the summer when the rents increased substantially, but the highly paid plant workers could afford a couple of months of high rents and remained in their units year round, or least while they had jobs. Layoffs, strikes, and other construction delays meant that hundreds of workers were coming and going, creating a lack of stability, which a permanent work force would have given the area.

Just two weeks later, however, work began again. A shutdown in April , with 5, workers laid off, highlighted another impact of the construction of the plant on Hampton. Within days, workers and their families left the area in search of other jobs, and the school enrollment dropped by 70 pupils. Real estate agents said winter rentals were off by 50 percent compared to the previous winter, when plant construction had been underway with 8, workers.

While Hampton residents often decried traffic problems created by the commuting plant workers, the Town probably has had a net tax gain because of the improvements in many Beach properties. As early as , SAPL had expressed concerns about the problems of evacuation, which would result if the then-proposed plant had an accident. At a unique meeting with the Atomic Energy Commission in , SAPL was told the commission did not approve plants in high-population-density areas. Federal agencies and PSNH apparently did not wish to address the issue of summer beach populations.

Company lawyer Thomas G. Dignan, Jr. Donald E. Stever, representing the state attorney general, told the AEC that the summer population located between 1 and 7 miles from the plant site "is greater than any previously licensed reactor," a factor "sufficient to raise the question of the appropriateness of the site. Since these storms usually come in the afternoon, sunbathers quickly run for their vehicles and head for home, soon clogging the roads in a hopeless traffic jam. What would happen, critics asked, if there were an accident and panic-stricken vacationers and local residents alike all attempted at once to leave the Beach and the rest of the seacoast area.

Some people argue that the evacuation problem should have been addressed before the plant was built. The court ruled that the regulatory agency could address the evacuation issue when it wanted to do so and that it would not have to be concerned with financial pressures if the plant was completed. The construction was allowed to proceed, although in PSNH decided to cancel Unit II a recommendation of the PUC and many of the minority owners , which was about 25 percent completed.

By June , when the low-power operating license was granted, and with most other issues resolved, only the evacuation question remained to be settled. As early as , Hampton Civil Defense Director Jay Tanzer was frustrated" by state and federal agencies in his efforts to develop an evacuation plan; finally he resigned. Hampton selectmen assailed a draft evacuation plan submitted in , since it hardly mentioned Hampton Beach. Eventually the evacuation planning issue was focused on the area 10 miles in radius from the plant site.

Citizens Within the Mile Radius was organized to oppose the issue; many of the members were from the six Massachusetts towns within the radius. Six of the New Hampshire towns within the mile radius, including Hampton, refused to participate in the evacuation planning, so the company submitted a plan for them that was accepted by federal agencies.

Hampton voters have acted on Seabrook issues at several town meetings. In , for example, voters in Hampton and four other seacoast towns asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to halt construction until the evacuation issue was resolved.