Dominion was forced to shut down Millstone Unit 2 over the July 26 weekend because of the failure of feedwater pump circulation, according to information the company provided to the NRC. Unit 2 remained shut on Monday, July 28, 2014. The failure of the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump circulation forced a controlled shutdown from full[…]
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It was great seeing you at the 14th annual East Lyme Day celebration. Thanks to all who stopped by and signed our petitions. If you did not yet get a change to sign the petitions you may do so by clicking here. If you would like additional information about our organization or the harmful effects[…]
Read MoreMAY 27, 2014 The two nuclear reactors at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station shut down over the Memorial Day weekend as an emergency was declared when the site lost electricity from the grid. Learn more
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 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.[…]
Read More“Scientist, and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard” NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html?hpw “He found his political voice when he encountered the indifference of government authorities to the high levels of strontium 90 in the atmosphere from atomic tests. Quite simply, he said in an interview with The Chicago Tribune in 1993, ‘The Atomic Energy Commission turned me into an[…]
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