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CONNECTICUT
COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE
Do we really want $9 billion in nuclear reactor loan guarantees
slipped into an emergency military appropriations bill? NUKEFREE.org
24 Years Later The Consequences of Chernobyl By KARL GROSSMAN
YOU are now paying for the NEXT 3 Mile Island
Harvey Wasserman March 27, 2010Indian Farmers Battle Against Nuclear Plant
Reuters 3/12/2010: US-Born Terror Suspect Worked at Nuclear Power Plants in New Jersey
The Associated Press: American-born terror suspect worked at nuclear power plants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland
NUCLEAR LOAN GUARANTEES AREN’T JUST GUARANTEES:
THEY ARE ACTUAL TAXPAYER LOANS NEWS FROM NIRS
From Ralph Nader - Ecology Party of Florida 2008 Presidential candidate:
"A generation of Americans has grown up without a single nuclear power plant being brought on line since before the near meltdown of the Three Mile Island structure in 1979. They have not been exposed to the enormous costs, risks and national security dangers associated with their operations and the large amount of radioactive wastes still without a safe, permanent storage place for tens of thousands of years." Read More >>>
Millstone 3 Update
January 4, 2010: Millstone Emergency Shutdown Enters Third Week
January 1, 2010: Millstone 3: Still Shut Down After 13 Days?
Happy New Year Connecticut from Dominion
The Nuclear Experiment Continues
The Millstone 3 nuclear reactor entered an emergency shutdown on December 19, 2009 and remains shut down on the first day of the new decade, according to the most recent information posted on the NRC website.
The NRC reported Millstone Unit 3 suffered an automatic reactor trip “due to an electrical fault on the main generator output circuit breaker.”
Opening of the atmospheric steam relief valves and the main condenser steam dump valves enabled unusual releases of radiological materials to escape to the air and surrounding residential community.
According to the NRC, the electrical fault caused the loss of one of two offsite power sources, requiring Dominion to put Millstone Unit 3 in cold shutdown.
On April 17, 2005, Millstone Unit 3 suffering an emergency shutdown because of “tin whiskers” growing on the circuit boards. The photo accompanying this posting captures steam - and invisible radiation - escaping from Unit 3 as it did for hours that day. The NRC permitted Dominion to restart Millstone Unit 3 without replacing defective board circuitry with identifiable tin whiskers.
As of December 21, 2009, the NRC reported that Dominion was still evaluating the cause of the recent electrical fault.
“Dominion continues to perform repairs on a Millstone 3 main generator output circuit-breaker that experienced the fault on December 19th,” NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan wrote in a December 31, 2009 email to the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone.
“This is a very large circuit-breaker and as such takes time to repair and test.”
December 28, 2009:
Millstone 3 Emergency Shut-Down Enters 10th day
AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP CAUSED BY A TURBINE/GENERATOR ELECTRICAL FAULT 12/19/2009
Joe Lieberman: The Senate's Most Notorious and Committed Socialist
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"Independent" Senator Joe Lieberman is holding out against a public option in the health care reform bill. He says he must reject it because of its overtones of Socialism.
Yet the record reveals that Lieberman is the Senate's most committed Socialist - when it comes to loving and financing nukes of all kinds.
Right now he is doing the nuclear industry's bidding by trying to force through Congress an energy bill with unlimited taxpayer-backed loans for new nuclear power plants.
Such a bill is necessary for new nuclear power plants because Wall Street is shunning new nuclear investment like the plague, 60 years into the nuclear age, because of its high risks, high costs and because there is no place to store the radioactive waste.
Lieberman "conned" Connecticut as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee by supporting Dominion when it refused to implement a floating barrier to deter terrorists away from Millstone's intakes, as directed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Lieberman is Connecticut's Homegrown Hypocrite. He and his nuclear folly ambitions must be stopped.Call Lieberman now. Demand a stop to Nuclear Socialism!
860-549-8463
800-225-5605
202-224-4041
The "peaceful" atom leading to war with Iran
Background: The discovery of a second uranium enrichment facility in Qum, Iran prompted the government of Saudi Arabia to open its air space for potential Israeli air attacks on a growing number of nuclear infrastructure targets in Iran.
Ironically, "atoms for peace" have often led to wars. In 1980, Iran attacked Iraq's partially-built Osirak reactor, but French engineers repaired the light damage quickly. The very next year, Israel bombed Osirak before it could be loaded with fuel. These attacks set the precedent for future conventional military pre-emptive strikes against commercial or research atomic facilities, as a non-proliferation tactic. In 1984, Iraq initiated several years of attacks against Iran's partially-built Bushehr reactor complex, inflicting severe damage on the facility. The following year, Bennett Ramberg published Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy: An Unrecognized Military Peril. In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, the U.S. bombed Iraqi research reactors at Tuwaitha, possibly causing radiological releases. In 2007, Israel bombed an atomic reactor being secretly constructed by North Koreans in Syria. Last year, Ramberg warned about the radiological consequences should the Dimona reactor, at the heart of the Israeli nuclear weapons manufacturing complex, be bombed.
Our view: Uranium is a currency whose coin has flipsides of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Potential nuclear targets for Israeli air attacks in Iran now include the perpetually "nearly finished" Bushehr nuclear power plant and at least the Natanz and the Qum uranium enrichment facilities. Such an attack on Iran carries the increasing risk of a rapidly widening regional war, potentially globally. The Bushehr site is now known to be protected by Russian ground-to-air missile batteries.
What you can do: Call your Congressional representatives and tell them that the proliferation of "civilian" nuclear technology principally through nuclear power plants and uranium enrichment destabilizes world peace through both pre-emptive wars and the growing risk of nuclear war.www.beyondnuclear.org October 1, 2009
Keep It Shut! (Posted 7/21/2009)
Millstone 2 sprang a dangerous radioactive leak inside the containment that has kept the 882-megawatt nuclear reactor shut since July 3, 2009.
Connecticut's nuke-loving Department of Public Utility Control declared Millstone 2 "no longer used and useful" 10 years ago but pressure from the Governor's office and the Attorney General's office has kept this lemon of a nuclear reactor operating under very unsafe conditions.
Allowing Millstone Unit 2, with its aging, cracking parts, to restart would represent an act of supreme recklessness.
Put safety first Dominion and shut Millstone 2 for good.
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Dominion Pinpoints Unit 2 Reactor Leak
By Patricia Daddona Published in The Day on 7/15/2009Letter to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Opposes "Clean Energy Bank" Funding for New Atomic Reactors www.BeyondNuclear.org
Study Shows Trillions of Dollars in Excess Costs If U.S. Builds 100 Nuclear Reactors www.BeyondNuclear.org
Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass: "Ridding the World of Nuclear Weapons" (Letter to the Editor, The New York Times 6.1.2009
Gina
McCarthy’s Nomination Is Stalled -
For the Wrong Reason
Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D. writes an open letter to:Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy 2/7/2009
CHILD LEUKEMIA DEATH RATES INCREASE NEAR U.S. NUCLEAR PLANTS
New York ~ 11/11/08 ~ Leukemia death rates in U.S. children near nuclear reactors rose sharply (vs. the national trend) in the past two decades, according to a recent study DECEMBER 23, 2008
VICTORY!
The Connecticut Supreme Court today (May 20, 2009) swept away 10 years of poor decisionmaking and finally ruled that every citizen in Connecticut has standing to bring suit to protect the environment - just like the statute says.
This is GREAT NEWS for the community surrounded by Millstone. It is GREAT NEWS for the fish. And it is GREAT NEWS for all who believe that conscientious citizen participation can make a difference.
The powerful decision clears the way for an inquest in the Superior Court into the conduct of the high-level personnel of the Department of Environmental Protection who for years have allowed Millstone to operate outside the law.
Read the decision here:
http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/supapp/Cases/AROcr/CR291/291CR55.pdf
Urgent Plea of the Niantic River Winter Flounder To Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers:
SAVE US FROM EXTINCTION!
URGENT: STOP THE UNLIMITED NEW NUKES LEGISLATION
(posting courtesy www.nirs.org 5/14/09)
STOP BILLIONS FOR NEW NUKES!
( courtesy NukeFree.org ) April 28, 2009Three Mile Island at 30: Reactors and Infant Health
Al Gore: Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy and climate crisis
The Obama Transition Watch reprint courtesy of www.BeyondNuclear.org

In Memoriam
In loving memory of Joseph H. Besade
December 1, 1936 - August 16, 2003
We miss your smile, your outrage, your righteousness, your ever-present videocamera, your indignation about all the "corruption and collusion," your boundless energy, your wit and humor. You were our model public citizen and your spirit continues to inspire each and every day.
Eternal love and peace,
Your Friends at the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone
Is Nuclear Whistleblower Being Scapegoated?
Why Were No Criminal Charges Brought Over Millstone's "Lost" Spent Fuel Rods? - Davis-Besse ‘deception’ trial to begin
Posted on August 8, 2008 by gregornot on WorldPress.com





STOP $544 billion for nuclear energy!
Lightning Strike Shuts Millstone Unit 2
Three Mile Island 29 Years Later: Nuclear Safety Problems Still Unresolved
CLASS I EMERGENCY DECLARED AT MILLSTONE
Hartford Courant: "Challenge Dominion"!
Millstone
Downwinders: Inhale Deeply - Until March 31
Snow and rain caused a malfunction in the Millstone meteorological tower
and associated instrumentation for measuring gaseous radioactive releases
to the environment for at least seven days in January, according to
a report Dominion filed with the NRC on January 30, 2008.
While
New London Slept . . . [1]
All hell was breaking loose at Millstone
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Domenici
slips nuclear loan provision into farm legislationNo new nuclear power
plants have been built in the U.S. in decades, primarily because nuclear
power is simply too risky to receive financing from the private market.
But we're in danger of seeing a rebirth of nuclear power, with dozens
of new plants across the country, if the nuclear industry gets its way
and gets taxpayers to foot the bill with $50 billion worth of loan guarantees.
Friends of the Earth has been fighting to remove these loan guarantees
from the energy bill, but this week a member of our policy team found
that Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), the nuclear industry's biggest congressional
ally, has slipped this loan guarantee language into an amendment to the
farm bill. Send a message to Congress about these guarantees at Friends
of the Earth Action's nonukeloans.com.


If the nuclear experiment had worked, the nuclear industry wouldn't need government subsidy.
But the technology is so dangerous and the potential consequences of an accident so catastrophic that no private company will insure them or invest in them without government - that means YOU, the taxpayer - guarantees.
The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone has contacted each member of the state's Congressional delegation to educate them and their staffs on this issue.
We have let them know we are counting on them to block the "new nukes subsidy."
You can help by contacting them yourself.
Here is the number that will connect you to your own Representative: (202) 224-3121.
Let them know you are watching their votes on this issue.
Contact us : info@mothballmillstone.org 203-938-3952
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