News 2005 News 2004 News 2003 News 2002 Press Releases Events Calendar Did You Know? Archived Newsletter Pages 1 - 2 - 3 Sponsored by Sunraven Resources QUERY TO NRC: WHEN WILL YOU ORDER INTAKE BARRIERS AT MILLSTONE?	MOTHBALL MILLSTONE CCAM: Connecticut Coalition Against the Millstone Nuclear Power Reactor Contact us : info@mothballmillstone.org - 203-938-3952 Boycott ExxonMobil: Protest Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! Practice Energy Conservation! This summer, ConnPIRG and a coalition of the nation’s largest environmental groups launched the Exxpose Exxon campaign to expose ExxonMobil’s active lobbying to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, avoid paying all the damages it owes victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and funding of organizations working to deny the threat of global warming. In a letter to ExxonMobil’s CEO Lee Raymond, the coalition says, “For years, ExxonMobil has intentionally put its own profits above a clean environment and the health of America’s families. As a result, we are asking all Americans not to work for ExxonMobil, invest in the company or buy ExxonMobil’s gas and products. ”ExxonMobil is the only company remaining in Arctic Power, the industry group lobbying to open the Arctic Refuge to drilling. Between 1998 and 2004, ExxonMobil gave more than $15 million to groups that were working to deny the facts about global warming. NO NUKES IN SPACE: STOP THE PLUTONIUM SPACE LAUNCH! NASA plans to launch 25 pounds of highly-toxic plutonium from Florida in January, 2006 on a New Horizons space probe to the planet Pluto. In NASA's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the New Horizons Mission they say that the plutonium to be used will be a mixture of pu-238 and pu-239. The pu-238 is the hottest and most toxic ever created. The pu-239 has a half life of several hundred thousands of years. The Nagasaki bomb dropped by the U.S. at the end of World War II used pu-239. In the EIS, NASA acknowledges that a deadly launch accident could release the plutonium to be carried by prevailing winds for a 60-mile radius. In such a worst case scenario NASA states that clean-up costs would range from $241 million to $1.3 billion per square mile. In the 1997 Cassini EIS, NASA acknowledged they would have to remove all the people, the buildings, the vegetation, the animals, and the top 1⁄2 inch of soil in the contaminated area after such an accident. Central Florida would be a nuclear wasteland. One thing we have learned over the years is that spacetechnology can and does fail. The Global Network is leading the charge to stop this nuclear madness. Fibnd out how you can help: http://www.space4peace.org globalnet@mindspring.com http://space4peace.blogspot.com (Global Network blog) Women arrested during Entergy protest Thank you Sunny, Sally, Nina, Lynn, Maure, Terry and Elizabeth for your courage and example. We support you. Now make them prove that Vermont Yankee is not poisoning the schoolchildren at the public elementary school directly across the street from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant with its continuous releases of radiation to their vulnerable little bodies. November 8, 2005 By DANIEL BARLOW Southern Vermont Bureau BRATTLEBORO Samples Taken At Nuclear Plant - NRC Measuring Contamination By GARY LIBOW Courant Staff Writer November 8 2005 Millstone Security Threat: Will A Map Stop A Terrorist Attack? Feds Mapping Millstone For Security Reasons NRC To Gather Soil, Concrete Samples Move Follows Report Of Water Leak At Connecticut Yankee Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Leaked By GARY LIBOW Courant Staff Writer November 3, 2005 HADDAM -- Radioactive water from the decommissioned Connecticut Yankee nuclear plant's spent fuel pool once leaked into the surrounding soil, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported Wednesday. Continue Story >>> DEP Says NO NUKES!, Signs Up For Clean Renewable Energy By JUDY BENSON The Day 11/3/05 Continue Story>>> Connecticut Commissioner of Environmental Protection Gina McCarthy Thank you Rosa Parks: You led the way for all of us to stand up to achieve human dignity and true justice for all. "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everrything save man's way of thinking, thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes." - Albert Einstein ...The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Mohamed ElBaradei and the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which he heads “for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons.” ...This act is deeply shameful and will serve to accelerate the proliferation of atomic weapons. ...The IAEA is notorious as a booster for promoting development of nuclear power around the world, particularly in unstable nations. ...The bitter irony is that every nuclear power plant, once it has begun to generate deadly radioactive waste - for which there is no safe method for disposal - is an advanced nuclear weapon awaiting detonation by act of malice. The consequences of a successful malevolent strike on a nuclear power plant would be catastrophic to the planet and all its people. ...We condemn the Nobel Committee - which soared in our estimation last year when it named Kenyan environmental folk-heroine Wangari Maathai the first African woman to win a Peace Prize - for diminishing the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and for falling for the myth of the peaceful atom. ...We urge the Nobel Committee to reconsider its unfortunate choice. Was H.L. Mencken Correct? Crusading journalist H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) once wrote: ...."As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ....President George W. Bush, in selecting Harriet B. Miers to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, said he has known her for more than a decade and they “agree on everything and she will not change her mind.” ....We must therefore assume that this nominee to our nation's highest court - who is without judicial experience - is, like George W. Bush, a pawn of the nuclear industry, a skeptic of global warming, an advocate for environmental pillage, a scourge of children's health, an international scofflaw, in sum, an enemy of all things good and decent which used to signify America and its values. ....Take back the government! Make the government work for the people! Block this nomination! Call U.S. Senator Chris Dodd and tell him to vote "NO!" on the Miers nomination. 202-224-2823 Call U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and tell him to vote "NO!" on the Miers nomination. 202-224-4041 Did Millstone’s radiation releases play a role in the untimely death of playwright August Wilson? ...On October 2, 2005, America lost one of her pre-eminent playwrights to liver cancer. August Wilson captured the souls of African-Americans and planted them in our hearts and minds with wit and brilliance. We have lost a star from the firmament. ...May we hold Millstone accountable for this dreadful event? ...August Wilson sprang to national acclaim in 1982, when he was a resident at the National Playwright’s Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford. The O’Neill Center is routinely dosed by Millstone’s routine and illegal releases of radioactive and toxic effluents to the air and water. Millstone is a silent and insidious killer. The O’Neill Center is located two miles downwind of Millstone. ...Because Mr. Wilson died in Oregon, the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health is not required to investigate the cause of death nor investigate the possible link with Millstone. ...As a memorial to the honor of Mr. Wilson, we call upon our state legislators to enact a law requiring the Department of Public Health to track the health of all current and former residents who succumb to cancer and related illnesses outside the state. ...It would be a tragedy if Millstone radiation contributed to August Wilson’s untimely death and we did nothing about it. "He got his legs at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford." August Wilson fondly remembered." August Wilson Was A Man Comfortable In His Skin By BETHE DUFRESNE... General Assignment Reporter/Columnist Published on 10/21/2005 Not long before playwright August Wilson died of inoperable liver cancer, a friend asked if I was going to write his obituary. It was a logical question, I suppose, since I was one of the first to write about him, a result not of brilliant intuition but of circumstance. Wilson got his legs at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, the jewel of my beat when I covered the arts in the 1980s. Everything felt new then, for Wilson and for me, and I like to think we hit it off. We spent a great deal of time together, me following him to the Yale Repertory Theatre, on to New York and through countless honors. He was “one of ours,” and where Wilson was going, I wanted to go along. But theater has long ceased to be my beat, and I didn't relish writing about Wilson's death. It's said he met it bravely, with no big regrets, having just finished his 10-play cycle about African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century. On Tuesday a Broadway theater was re-named for Wilson, who died Oct. 2. Admirers have pledged to keep his work in play, especially so that young black Americans will know their history. Yet Wilson's audience was as much white as black. I learned a lot from August Wilson, some of it about him, some about America, some about the theater and some about myself. Wilson was the son of a black mother and a white father, a fact missing from my earliest stories. Clearly Wilson had written off his father, but he didn't say his father was white, and I didn't ask, not then. Describing people's looks has never been my strong suit, partly because I was raised to be ultra sensitive to others on that score. Someone else might have honed in on the “white” aspects of Wilson's features. But, to put it bluntly, he looked black enough to me. Thinking back, that was because Wilson was comfortable in his own skin. Wilson once said style was having a single idea and carrying it through to the end. That, coupled with the old adage, “Write what you know,” points to his success. The playwright grew up in Pittsburgh, where he heard stories, many of them about the Great Migration north after slavery, and found his own voice. I tried on several occasions to interest him in going south, where I have family roots. He listened to me go on about my great-grandfather, a son of slaveholders who became a crusader for black voting rights. But that was my story. Wilson was determined to stay on track. Back when I knew him, he didn't go to the movies, and he didn't drive. Nor did he feel compelled to spend/waste any precious time educating himself about the western world's cultural icons. I remember a lunch meeting in New Haven, at a restaurant Wilson said was friendly to blacks because no one minded if he wrote at the table, hung around and kept his cap on. He was a “race man,” and paid keen attention to those things. Wilson told me he hated Beethoven, and hated even more being thought uneducated because of it. We spent the rest of the day scouring the city for a Ma Rainey (“Mother of the Blues”) album. I still have it. I so loved Wilson's work that I desperately wanted to see it on the big screen. “Fences” got some nibbles, because it was about baseball. I preferred “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” or, later, “Joe Turner's Come and Gone.” Wilson wanted to make movies, but not enough to drop his insistence on a black director, and not enough to derail his mission and learn the rules of the movie game. Despite his penchant for the supernatural, I don't think Wilson foresaw his early death, at age 60. But time was running out. It always is. This is the opinion of Bethe Dufresne. © The Day Publishing Co., 2005 For home delivery, please call 1-866-846-9099 Dr. Jay M. Gould 1915-2005 We pause to mourn the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. Jay M. Gould. SAVE THE CHILDREN OF NEW ORLEANS: FROM THE FLOOD AND FROM THE NUKES ---- ----------- QUERY TO NRC: WHEN WILL YOU ORDER INTAKE BARRIERS AT MILLSTONE? STOP THE WAR! "Dominion" Stands for "Dirty" Brayton Point Power Plant Millstone is the dirtiest nuclear power plant in the U.S.A. Its releases of radioactive and toxic materials to the air and water have set records in the nuclear industry. Millstone’s prior owner, Northeast Utilities, pleaded guilty to committing environmental felonies at Millstone. Millstone constantly contaminates the air and water with poisons. Millstone’s current owner, Dominion, has now been singled out as the worst power plant polluter in the Northeast in terms of greenhouse gas releases. Dominion’s Brayton Point coal-fired plant in Somerset MA near the Rhode Island border belched 5.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air in 2004. That amounts to 5 per cent of the total amount of carbon dioxide released in the region, which includes News England, New York and New Jersey, according to a coalition of environmental groups as reported by the Associated Press on July 26, 2005. Carbon dioxide releases into the atmosphere are principally responsible for the catastrophic effects of global warming. In 2003, Dominion agreed to a $1.2 billion enforcement settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violations of the Clean Air Act at its coal-fired Mount Storm Power Plant in West Virginia. Dominion’s ruthless failure to install mandatory pollution-control equipment resulted in the release of massive amounts of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter, according to the EPA. Join our demand to replace dirty nuclear and fossil fuel power plants with clean, safe, green, earth-friendly renewables! SAVE THE CHILDREN OF NEW ORLEANS: FROM THE FLOOD AND FROM THE NUKES As Hurricane Katrina heaps tragedy upon hundreds of thousands of people in New Orleans and the surrounding region - many of them poor and many of them tiny, helpless children - and with the tragedy worsening by the hour - the inability of the Federal Department of Emergency Management to respond to a true crisis has been cruelly exposed. What if there had been a nuclear meltdown instead of a hurricane? How would FEMA have coped with that emergency? Incredibly, the Waterford Nuclear Power Station 20 miles west of New Orleans came close to a catastrophe when the operators shut the plan down as a precaution against high hurricane winds. A Class I emergency was declared when that nuclear plant lost its offsite power due to the hurricane. Offsite power - from the “grid” - is what supplies the electricity to operate the key safety systems of the nuclear power plant to prevent a meltdown. Standby diesel generators were all that stood between nuclear safety and nuclear cataclysm. Compounding the nuclear crisis was the failure of emergency sirens to operate at the Grand Gulf (near Port Gibson, Mississippi) and River Bend (near Baton Rouge, Louisiana) Nuclear Power Plants. The catastrophic failure of dams and levees from a hurricane was a foreseeable event. The catastrophic failure of a nuclear power plant is a foreseeable event. In neither event are we prepared to face the consequences. Time to face the facts: time to shut the unsafe nuclear power plants. Time to put people before profits. Thanks to all who visited our exhibit and signed our petitions to close Millstone at "Celebrate East Lyme Day" on July 16! Zachary Goes to Hartford Zachary and his parents visit Hartford to meet with public officials on June 7, 2005 to tell Zachary's story and ask for their help to "Close Millstone or Close the Beaches." Zachary signs the guest book at Governor M. Jodi Rell's Office. Zachary's Signature in Governor Rell's guest book. 3. Zachary visits the Office of Attorney General Richard S. Blumenthal. Zachary visits the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. Zachary and his parents visit the Connecticut Legislature. Which View Do You Want Your Children To Have? The Millstone of today or "Millwind" of the future?   The Millstone of today: Terrorist target, contaminates public beaches and waterways with radiological and toxic waste, irradiates the air we breathe, creates intensely radioactive waste for which there is no safe disposal, and is responsible for a cancer epidemic, early childhood mortality, birth defects, death and despair in our community, a millstone aroound the health and economic wellbeing of the region. The Millwind of tomorrow: Site of clean, safe, green, renewable energy, a clean, safe environment, a healthy place to live and prosper and grow as a community, a world with a future for our children. Imagine: if only 20 per cent of the available global wind resources were tapped, wind power could supply all the energy needs of the entire world. Tin Whisker: One Good Reason to Close Millstone Nine More Good Reasons To Close Millstone
	CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE Welcome to the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone virtual headquarters. We represent the people of Connecticut in their opposition to the reckless use of nuclear power. On this website you can get current news and scientific information that will help you to contribute to this important cause. Contact us : info@mothballmillstone.org 203-938-3952 Mr. Fraser: Why Are You Hiding Millstone's Dirty Secrets? June 9 RALLY for Clean Beaches and to Close Millstone ! See More Photos Warning! Swimming Here Is Hazardous to Your Health! Download this poster for printing - 1mb jpeg file September 1, 2005 Dear Chairman Diaz and Commissioners: Please answer this urgent query today at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meeting on security at nuclear power plants. (See Below.) Sincerely, Nancy Burton CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE www.mothballmillstone.org September 1, 2005 Nils J. Diaz, Chairman Commissioner Jeffrey S. Merrifield Commissioner Gregory B. J. Jaczko Commissioner Peter B. Lyons U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington DC 2055 Re: Millstone Nuclear Power Station Security Dear Chairman Diaz and Commissioners: Unfortunately, the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone is unable to attend your public conference today in Rockville, Maryland, on the subject of security at the nation’s nuclear power plants. We request that you address the following issue at the conference: As perhaps thousands of people are left to drown needlessly and the once-thriving City of New Orleans abandoned in ruin in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush, President of the United States, declared yesterday that “it could not have been anticipated” that levees holding back floodwaters would give way. In truth, the question was always not “if” but “when.” Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, after a technical review, identified the Millstone Nuclear Power Station as the only nuclear power station in the United States which is so vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack that its intake structures must be protected with a waterborne barrier. It obligated $1 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to cover the cost. You, gentlemen, have blocked and obstructed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security directive. Today, the Millstone intake structures are utterly defenseless against a waterborne attack targeting the intake structures. Such an attack, if successful, would disable the intake pumps and lead to an uncontrollable and catastrophic nuclear meltdown. A nuclear engineer formerly affiliated with Millstone, Paul M. Blanch, concurs with this conclusion. Millions of people would be left dead, injured and homeless in the wake of such a foreseeable event. Billions of dollars in property damage would result. The once-thriving Northeast Corridor of the United States would be a permanent uninhabitable disaster zone. The homeland security of the United States of America would be in doubt. Here is our query to you to answer today: WHEN is the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission going to order Millstone’s owner and operator to install the safety barrier such as is in place at all U.S. naval installations around the world, including the U.S. Submarine Base in Groton? For your ease of reference, we attach (below) a photograph of the U.S. Submarine base barrier installation as published recently in The New York Times. We await your reply. Sincerely, Nancy Burton Please respond to: 147 Cross Highway Redding Ridge CT 06876 Tel. 203-938-3952 cc: U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman U.S. Senator Chris Dodd U.S. Congressman Christopher Shays U.S. Congressman Rob Simmons U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro U.S. Congressman John Larson U.S. Congressman Nancy John son Hon. M. Jodi Rell Proceed to Home Page Part 2