Environmental Risk Characterization Work Plan Yankee Nuclear Power Station Rowe, Massachusetts

This document presents a work plan for performing an environmental risk assessment to support the environmental site closure underway at the Yankee Nuclear Power Station (YNPS). A work plan for the human health risk assessment was submitted as a separate document (Gradient, 2006). The YNPS is located in the town of Rowe, situated in northwestern Massachusetts along the Deerfield River adjacent to Sherman Dam (Figure 1-1). Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC) owns YNPS and surrounding lands, which comprise approximately 1,800 acres, of which approximately 12 acres is occupied by the nuclear plant itself.