In a split vote Tuesday, county lawmakers approved an $80,000 study on the impacts that Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Plant has on water temperature of the Long Island Sound. The study comes in the wake of concerns over rising water temperatures in the Long Island Sound that researchers say are linked to significant population reductions[…]
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We mourn the passing on February 12, 2015 of Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, the brilliant physicist, humanist and pioneer in the health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation and the hidden dangers of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. He was 91. Dr. Sternglass was responsible for important scientific breakthroughs, including innovations leading to the first[…]
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At the CCAM public meeting, back on September 24, 2014, Legislator Jay Schneiderman proposed a question to Jeffrey Semancik (DEEP’s Director of Radiation), which Jeffrey Semancik at the time neither confirmed nor denied but it clearly made him uncomfortable. See video clip below. We know the answer to Jay Schneiderman’s question. The answer is YES.[…]
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Connecticut’s Attorney General, George Jepsen, has joined a court petition by Vermont and New York on October 24, 2014 to challenge the NRC’s latest rules that would allow onsite storage of thousands of tons of high-level nuclear waste onsite at the Millstone nuclear power plant for 60 years after Units 2 and 3 close. In[…]
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Midway through its refueling outage – when Millstone Unit 3 is releasing its dirtiest pre-planned radioactive waste products to the air – Dominion reports the unplanned outage of a critical radiation monitor and the pre-planned outage of two other critical radiation monitors. This latest notification is the latest in recurring radiation monitor breakdowns at Millstone.[…]
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Notice of Violation to Dominion for a serious violation of federal regulations for operating Millstone during a six-month period (August 11, 2013 to February 3, 2014) with a continuing failure of a safety-related feedwater pump. Read more Posted October 21, 2014
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ALLOWS DOMINION TO KEEP ITS RADIATION MONITORING OUTAGES SECRET! Things just got a whole lot riskier for folks living in the shadow of Millstone – residents of southeastern Connecticut and Long Island’s East End in particular – with no advance notice, no opportunity for public comment and no stand-in for the public communicating its outrage.[…]
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Dominion is gearing Millstone up for its worst releases of radioactive waste to the air you breathe and to the shoreline’s life-sustaining waters during the month of October. During October, Millstone Unit 3 will shut down for a scheduled refueling. The uninitiated might welcome this news because logic should dictate that it must be safer[…]
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For Release October 1, 2014Contact: Nancy Burton Tel. 203-313-1510 NancyBurtonCT@aol.com The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone petitioned the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) today to reconsider its decision allowing Millstone to withdraw 80-degree water from the Long Island Sound. On July 23, 2014, DEEP notified Millstone’s owner, Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., that it[…]
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We thank Jeffrey Semancik, Connecticut’s DEEP Radiation Director who previously operated Millstone Unit 3 and held other senior positions at Millstone, for joining our presentation to the public in East Lyme on September 24. It was titled “Has Millstone Been a Good Neighbor?” We asked the audience members to decide for themselves if Millstone has[…]
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