The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cited the company for allegedly improperly disposing of steel coated with PCB-contaminated paint. The alleged violation occurred at the company´s decommissioned nuclear power plant in Rowe, Mass.

Yankee Atomic Electric allegedly failed to properly sample some 50,420 pounds of steel to ensure that PCB-contaminated paint was removed before a scrap recycler collected the material. The company recovered 33,360 pounds of the material.