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COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE
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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Settlement Offered to Some Residents Near Pa. Nuke Fuel Plant 2/01/2008 Read more>>>
LOSS OF SPENT FUEL POOL COOLING Incident at Millstone 02/01/2008. Read more>>>
Where Have All the Children Gone:
An Inquest into the Activities of The New London Day
The playground at the Southwest Elementary School in Waterford, Connecticut, is in the shadow of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station radiation-release stack.
Since 1978, due to the pioneering research of Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass and others, it has been known that developing fetuses, young children and the elderly are especially vulnerable to the effects of exposure to low-level ionizing radiation, which Millstone continuously releases to the air and water. Continue>>>
Senators call for safety inspection, waste studies at VY
By BOB AUDETTE, Reformer Staff Saturday, January 12Energy and Commerce Committee to Probe Breakdowns in NRC Oversight
SCANDAL ERUPTS RE: NRC’S LACK OF CONSISTENT STANDARDS
IN RELICENSING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;
Millstone Relicensing Debacle Cited
Dominion Investing $500 million in closed cooling system - at Brayton PT
Connecticut's Congressional Delegation: You Let The People Down in 2007
Rocks in His Head?
Dan Steward, First Selectman of Waterford, greets the New Year from the front page of The Hartford Courant standing amid the rocks at Pleasure Beach advocating constructing nerw nuclear power plants at MIllstone. Go to: http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hc-nuclear0101.artjan01,0,322176.story?coll=hc_tab01_layout
Does Mr. Steward have rocks in his head?
With tritium leaks exceeding federal drinking water standards, poisons washing ashore to the public beach from the nuclear power plant, its blatant security lapses and firing of whistleblowers, and facing a residential neighborhood plagued with a cluster of fatal brain cancers, Mr. Steward's blind advocacy for new nuclear power is antithetical to the public interest and well-being.
We invite Mr. Steward to sensitize himself to the everyday health and safety perils of Millstone and join us this new year to work to phase out antiquated and costly nuclear power in Waterford and develop sane solutions to our energy needs.
Time to rock the reactors, Mr. Steward.
Leukemia link to nuclear power 12/26/2007
Sickened, and Fighting Another Cold War
By ANTHONY DePALMA and DAVID STABA NYT 12/23/2007
Ad Feminam
In a courtroom, when an unscrupulous advocate lacks facts to prove a case, he may resort to an ad hominem attack against the opponent as a last, pathetic resort.
And so have the “news” writers of southeastern Connecticut’s biggest daily, The New London Day, gone on a reckless, ad feminam binge.
Read the obituaries that you publish at a high fee, Mr. The Day. Read the flyers put up in the communities you purport to serve with their desperate appeals for help for young victims of brain cancer and thyroid cancer. Infants, young children and young adults are suffering and dying in your midst from supposedly rare medical conditions.
When does the word “rare” lose its original meaning and take on a new meaning such as “not uncommon” or even “common”?
When a newspaper compromises objectivity and recklessly censors the facts about the known dangers of environmental exposure to radiation from nuclear power plants to our most vulnerable populations - the young, the unborn and pregnant and lactating women - it has lost any claim to speak for the well-being of the community.
Educate yourself, Mr. The Day.
Read the official report issued by Congress in 2006 through the National Research Council of the National Academies (“Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII - Phase 2"), http://darwin.nap.edu/books/030909156X/html.
Read “Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Environmental Health Standards to Protect Those Most at Risk,” issued on October 19, 2006 by the Institute for Environmental and Energy Research, http://www.ieer.org/campaign/report.pdf,
Stop censoring the truth and shooting messengers. Aspire to honor and integrity. Stop betraying the community you have the privilege of serving.
Rock Stars Play Backup to Edwards' Populist Message
By John P. Gregg Valley News Staff Writer
CENSORED AGAIN!
New London CT's The Day newspaper is censoring the news about Millstone once again!
On December 17, 2007, Nancy Burton, Director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, filed a complaint in the Connecticut Superior Court charging The Day and its reporter, Patricia Daddona, with publishing a libelous article about Millstone on December 15, 2007 on the front page. Attorney General Richard S. Blumenthal is also a named defendant.
The Day was served with an electronic copy of the complaint early on December 17, 2007, affording it ample opportunity to publish an article acknowledging it is a defendant in a libel lawsuit involving Millstone for its December 18, 2007 isssue.
Instead, The Day put a blackout on the news to keep its 100,000 loyal readers in southeastern Connecticut in the dark.
You can read the complaint here:Banish the Censorship:
Nancy Burton v. Patricia Daddona et al.Millstone 2 reactor cut to 58 percent
12/17 (Reuters)
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Millstone Leaking Radiation: Exceeding Federal Standards
Cheney Pursuing Nuclear Ambitions of His Own
By Jason Leopold - t r u t h o u t - Report 11/5/2007Oral Argument November 27, 2007 at 11 A.M.
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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.
The horrific traffic accident that occurred in East Lyme in broad daylight on November 2 was called the "worst case scenario" by Waterford Police Chief Murray Pendleton because I-95 was blocked in both directions for nearly 8 hours and Route 1 and secondary roads were virtually gridlocked for hours.
What if an accident or a terrorist strike occurred at Millstone? Would I-95 and Route 1 really accommodate a full-scale evacuation of the 139,205 people who live within 10 miles of Millstone?
Attorney General Richard S. Blumenthal:
Won't you follow NY Attorney General Andrew Cucomo's lead and hold a community forum in New London County. The community would like to hear about your plans to bring Millstone into compliance with the law or shut it down.
CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY:The U.S. House of Representatives is considering sneaking through a $50 BILLION taxpayer loan guarantee so that outlaw profiteers like Dominion can persuade Wall Street to back a new generation of dangerous nuclear power plants.
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.