SEPTEMBER 23, 2013 Contact: Nancy Burton Tel. 203-938-3952 NancyBurtonCT@aol.com Dominion’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford sucks in 1.3 million gallons of water per minute from the Long Island Sound to cool its nuclear reactors. That’s 6.8 trillion gallons per year. The water is discharged to the Sound laced with traces of toxic and radioactive[…]
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Dominion’s proper operation of Millstone’s tall, red-and-white radiation stack – a landmark for boaters and aviators alike – is its pledge to the community that it is protecting families from high doses of radiation. (Millstone’s nuclear reactors are designed to continuously release lower doses of radiation to the air and water and they do.) If[…]
Read MoreFor Immediate Release Contacts: Dan Hirsch Committee to Bridge the Gap 831 336 8003 Diane D’Arrigo Nuclear Information and Resource Service 301 270 6477 x 15 April 15, 2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing in the Federal Register today controversial new Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for responding to radioactive releases. EPA says[…]
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 11, 2013 Contact: Nancy Burton, NancyBurtonCT@aol.com Gina McCarthy’s release of only four emails concerning the Fukushima nuclear disaster in response to a Freedom of Information request – two on March 11, 2011, when it began and two a day later, both heavily redacted – raise grounds for her investigation, not nomination,[…]
Read MoreFukushima is already harming our children Harvey Wasserman March 10, 2013 Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever. Two years after Fukushima exploded, three still-smoldering reactors remind us that[…]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 1, 2013 Contact: Nancy Burton, NancyBurtonCT@aol.com Gina McCarthy is being talked about as a possible successor to Lisa Jackson, who announced her intention to resign as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator on December 27, 2012. (See The Wall Street Journal, “The Next Lisa Jackson,” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324669104578206011318198152.html.) Jackson will exit the post in January.[…]
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