Feds asked to reexamine nuclear waste storage at Pilgrim

BOSTON — Senate President  Therese Murray has joined the debate over whether the Pilgrim power plant in her district is safely storing nuclear waste.
   Murray, D-Plymouth, and Attorney General Martha Coakley sent a joint letter Monday to the heads of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U.S. Department of Energy, urging them to take swift action to change the plant’s practice of storing spent fuel rods in on-site pools – the same problematic method used at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.