Mothball Millstone! Connecticut Coalition Against the Millstone Nuclear Power Reactor

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.....As part of the May 26 rally at Liberty Park in Niantic, the Coalition will donate signs for town officials to post prior to the official opening of the beaches on Memorial Day weekend warning of the hazards of swimming at public beaches in East Lyme.
     Following the rally, participants will march to the “Hole-in-the-Wall Beach” in Niantic, where they will conduct a symbolic closing of the beach to draw attention to the presence of life-threatening radiological and chemical effluents that wash ashore from the Millstone Nuclear Power Station’s discharge pipes every day.
     The rally will honor Zachary M. Hartley, age 7, whose mother swam at Hole-in-the-Wall Beach in 1997 during her pregnancy. Zachary was born with a rare jawbone cancer. His jawbone was removed during life-saving surgery when he was an infant and he is scheduled for major surgery again in June.
     The concert at the Garde Arts Center on July 2 will feature musical performances by the award-winning singer-songwriters Emma’s Revolution and Stefko, a New York City-based acoustic folk-rock singer-songwriter.
.....Emma’s Revolution is comprised of Pat Humphries and Sandy O, whose music has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and Pacifica’s “Democracy Now!” and whose songs “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” and “Keep on Moving Forward” are sung at vigils and demonstrations around the world.
.....Emma’s Revolution performed before thousands at the May 1, 2005 Global Disarmament Rally in New York City, the day before the 5-year review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty began at the United Nations. They will travel to the Nevada Test Site this August for commemoration vigils during this 60th anniversary year of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
.....Emma’s Revolution has been called the “epitome of great, contemporary political music” by Sing Out! Magazine. The duo’s debut CD, “One X 1,000,000 = Change,” includes “If I Give Your Name,” Grand Prize Winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. The duo’s website address is www.emmasrevolution.com.
.....Stefko, based out of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, plays a mix of folk-rock, indie, and alt-country in both English and Ukrainian. He has been performing, composing and writing lyrics for over ten years.
.....While attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, Stekfo often appeared either solo and/or as part of the duo Sicksided & Burned, at coffee houses and various college venues. After graduating in 2003, he recorded an EP as part of Sicksided & Burned titled “Jessica the Vulture,” a solo acoustic single backends and a Ukrainian language EP titled “Sumni Pisni” (Sad Songs) at Wheatsheaf Studios in New Jersey. All of the recordings were of original material.
.....A second-generation Ukrainian-American, Stefko organized a benefit concert in support of freedom in Ukraine as the Orange Revolution swept over the former Soviet republic last December. The concert was held in New York City’s East Village to honor the hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians who stood at the vanguard of the Orange Revolution and to support the activities of election observers in the third round of voting which resulted in the election of Viktor Yushchenko as president. Stefko performed at a rally in Washington DC on April 6 to welcome President Yushchenko on his first official visit to the United States the day he addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
.....In addition to the musical performances, the evening concert will include speakers and other performers. Tickets are $20 for adults, children under 12 free. Adults accompanied by a child under 12 may purchase a half-price ticket at the Box Office the evening of the concert.
     “The goal of the ‘Clean Beaches – Close Millstone’ campaign is to promote and increase public awareness of how Millstone operations contaminate the Connecticut shoreline with invisible and insidious pollution, including long-lived radionuclides,” said Burton. “These are substances which, once ingested, trigger cancer and other diseases.”
     “The beaches are a great natural resource which belong to the people,” said Mitzi Bowman, a member of the Coalition. “We should not have to be afraid to enjoy summer recreation at the beach with our families.”
     Public beaches near Millstone are within the 8,000-foot-radius “mixing zone” where the facility is allowed to dump radiological, chemical and thermal waste, according to Burton.
     In reports filed with federal and state authorities, Millstone’s operators have admitted contaminating fish in Niantic Bay with cesium-137, a cancer-causing radionuclide with a half-life of 30 years that decays into an array of harmful substances.
     The nuclear plant is also responsible for buildup of cobalt-60 and other radionuclides in shoreline sediments, according to reports filed with federal and state agencies.
     The Coalition seeks a permanent shutdown of the two operating nuclear reactors at Millstone because in addition to the pollution that they cause, the simple fact is that the electricity they produce is not needed.
     “When Millstone Unit 3 declared a Class II emergency on April 17 and was shut down for two weeks while Unit 2 was also shut down for refueling, the electric grid serving Connecticut and New England did not notice the missing 2,000 megawatts, Burton said.
     “We call for the immediate shutdown of Millstone Units 2 and 3 because they are a hazard to our health and the health of our unborn children” Burton said. Millstone Unit 1 was permanently closed in 1996.
....."Contamination of our beaches is only one part of the harm caused by the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to radioactive waste management,” said Peter Bowman, co-director of Don’t Waste Connecticut, a member of the Coalition. “Safe beaches and clean water are the people's right, not to be usurped by Dominion for use as a dumping ground for their toxic and radioactive poisons.”
     “The dangerous experiment with nuclear power in all its forms has had its time,” Calandrelli said. “It’s time to evolve into a cleaner energy future.”
additional info: Connecticut Sierra Club

www.emmasrevolution.com for Emma’s Revolution’s touring schedule.

Millstone Emergency Declared

U.S. Senator Dodd Asks NRC and Dominion to Give "Due Consideration" to Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone Request for Full Public Review Prior to Unit 3 Restart

David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists Describes what happened at the Emergency Shutdown

Millstone Unit 3 Emergency – April 17, 2005
....The Millstone Unit 3 nuclear reactor declared a Class Two – on a scale of one to four – emergency and suffered an unplanned shutdown which released unusual levels of radiation into the air on Sunday, April 17.

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	Intake areas at Millstone are unprotected. There is a budget for barriers but they have not been installed.
	These are the type of barriers commonly used at military and other high security areas. Why has Millstone failed to take this precaution?
	This is a view of the NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, with Jersey barriers installed immediately after September 11, 2001.

SHUTDOWN!

Millstone Units 2 and 3:
Keep them shut – we don’t need them!

......Millstone Unit 3 suffered a Class II Emergency (second worst of four levels) when it automatically shut down on April 17 of unknown “anomalies” involving valve failures in the steam generation system.
...Millstone Unit 2 entered a refueling outage on April 8, 2005. During a refueling outage, the nuclear reactor is shut down and it does not produce electricity.
...In 1996, Millstone’s third reactor, Unit 1, was shut down forever.
...Every day since April 17th, Connecticut’s grid has supplied Connecticut consumers with electricity without threat of blackout or brownout and without conservation or load reduction.
...Conclusion: KEEP MILLSTONE UNITS 2 and 3 SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD! WE DON’T NEED THEM, WE DON’T WANT THEM!

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The New York Times reported on May 15, 2005 that Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is leading the charge for huge new government subsidies for a new generation of terrorist targets - unsafe, radioactive nukes. Stop playing footsie with the nuclear industry, Joe!

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