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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Happy 91st Birthday Today to Dr. Ernest Sternglass! All Best Birthday Wishes to a Brilliant Pioneering Scientist in the Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation It was Dr. Sternglass who alerted us and the world when Dominion reported finding a concentration of 55 picoCuries per liter of strontium-90 in the milk of Katie the Goat when[…]
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September 21, 2014 New York City People who love our planet turned out in the hundreds of thousands at marches around the world on September 21, 2014 to sound the alarm for action to address climate change. We joined hundreds of others in the No-Nukes contingent of the New York City march – estimated at[…]
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One of Millstone 3’s critical feedwater pumps flunked quarterly surveillance tests twice in a row recently, on July 15 and September 10, the NRC reported in a press release issued today. “During both tests, the pump started and then unexpectedly stopped,” according to the NRC. “It then restarted without operator intervention and reached rated speed[…]
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Don’t miss the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent to the People’s Climate March on September 21 in New York City. Email info@mothballmillstone.org to reserve a seat on a bus traveling from Connecticut. • March Information • Why We March • Briefing Paper • Nuclear Power Fact Sheet • EPA Talking Points Source:www.nirs.com
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Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has doled out many millions of dollars to bolster security in the New London coastal area of southeastern Connecticut. Recent enhancements: A $375,000 police boat for Stonington A $700,000 firefighting boat for Mystic A $520,000 patrol boat for Waterford Surveillance cameras and[…]
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New London County – where Millstone is located – continues to have higher cancer and birth defect rates than elsewhere in the state of Connecticut, according to recent statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute. Cancer incidence in the age group infant-to-age-14 between the years 2006 and[…]
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Three Months Later They Admit: We Got Dosed During the May 25 Emergency Double Nuclear Shutdown When Millstone Units 2 and 3 went into simultaneous emergency shutdown on May 25, 2014, Dominion told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that its onsite radiation monitors: “are indicating normal levels.” At the same time, when Dominion had declared[…]
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The public is invited to a presentation on September 24, 2014 from 6 to 8 PM at the East Lyme Community Center, Chendal Room, 41 Society Road, Niantic. The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone is sponsoring the event. All are welcome! Topics will include Millstone’s hotter water discharge to the Long Island Sound, Dominion’s routine and[…]
Read MoreIn the NRC’s quarterly inspection report for the months of May, June and July released on August 12, the NRC cited Dominion for three violations of its federal licensing conditions. The NRC imposed no penalties. The cited violations: (1) Dominion’s radiation protection personnel overseeing contract workers told them respiratory protection was not needed for work[…]
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