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Coalition Joins Beyond Nuclear Petition Seeking Immediate Emergency Shutdown of Millstone Unit 2 Over Reports of Potential Vulnerability Of Its French-Built Pressurizer

Jan 25 2017

“Consequences of a defective pressurizer could be catastrophic” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2017 Contact: Nancy Burton/NancyBurtonCT@aol.com The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone has joined Beyond Nuclear in petitioning the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to impose an immediate shutdown of Millstone Unit 2 in Waterford over disclosures of a potentially defective pressurizer, a safety-critical component. The[…]

Jan 24 2017

CT legislature presents “information session” on Millstone Bailout January 24, 2017 at 1 PM in Hartford. We will be there! Join us! live stream Energy and Technology Committee AGENDA Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:00:00 PM in Room 1D of the LOB Informational Forum A Stakeholders Status Report on Connecticut Energy Where Are We? Where Are[…]

Jan 06 2017

The Indian Point nuclear plant will shut down by April 2021 under an agreement New York State reached this week with Entergy, the utility company that owns the facility in Westchester County, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. Under the terms of the agreement, one of the two nuclear reactors at[…]

Jan 06 2017

If you were a mother and formerly Connecticut’s Commissioner of Environmental Protection, would you want your lasting legacy in the closing days of the Obama Administration (in which you served as Administrator of the Environmental Agency) to be that you allowed levels of radioactivity in drinking water to be thousands of times more than allowed[…]

Jan 04 2017

posted: January 4, 2017 Energy and Technology Committee Environment Committee Legislative Office Building Capitol Avenue Hartford CT 06106 Re: Millstone Bailout Dear Honorable Members of the Energy and Technology Committee and the Environment Committee: I write on behalf of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, as its director, concerning current efforts by the owner and operator[…]

Dec 16 2016

For Release December 13, 2016 Contact: Nancy Burton NancyBurtonCT@aol.com The Connecticut Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision on the Millstone nuclear power station Clean Water Act permit, clearing the path for activists to nullify the permit on environmental grounds at an upcoming hearing. The Waterford CT nuclear power plant’s Units 2 and 3[…]

Dec 12 2016

Nov 18 2016

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is on track to approve radiation levels hundreds and thousands of times higher than currently allowed in our drinking water. The new standards will circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect nuclear polluters such as Dominion from Millstone radiation releases, not the public from radiation. McCarthy is on track to[…]

Nov 09 2016

Posted: November 9, 2016 Control room operators at Millstone Units 2 and 3 – the ultimate guardians of the nuclear reactors’ safety – routinely and consistently failed to review applicable standing orders between March and July of this year, according to an NRC inspection report released on November 4. The control room operators’ failure exposed[…]

Oct 23 2016

Posted 10/23/2016 The trouble-plagued Millstone Unit 2 – which went online in 1975, nearly 40 years ago – has asked the NRC to waive a mandatory inspection of its reactor vessel, due to take place once every ten years through the life of the reactor, by extending the upcoming inspection interval from 10 years to[…]

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Coalition Joins Beyond Nuclear Petition Seeking Immediate Emergency Shutdown of Millstone Unit 2 Over Reports of Potential Vulnerability Of Its French-Built Pressurizer

CT legislature presents “information session” on Millstone Bailout today at 1:00

Indian Point Nuke to Shut Down! Let’s Make Millstone Next!

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy: TELL HER TO BE A WATER PROTECTOR!

Tell the CT Legislature to say NO to a Millstone bailout!

HAIL CONNECTICUT’S SUPREME WATER PROTECTORS!

Reversed! CT Supreme Court Reverses Superior Court; Clears Path For Activists To Nullify Millstone Water Discharge Permit

Tell EPA to Reject Proposed Drinking Water Quality Standards

NRC Inspection: 17 Millstone Reactor Control Room Operators at Both Units 2 and 3 Flaunted Reviews of Standing Orders For Four Months This Year

The Great Experiment Continues: Dominion Wants to Postpone Mandatory Inspection of Unit 2 Reactor Vessel For 20 Years – NRC Says OK