ML042330073

Original Affidavit of Cynthia M. Besade, a Copy of Which Was Filed with the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone'S Motion for Reconsideration and Request for Leave to Amend Petition

ML042330073
Person / Time
Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	08/09/2004
From:	Besade C - No Known Affiliation
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
Byrdsong A T
References
+adjud/rulemjr200506, 50-336-LR, 50-423-LR, ASLBP 04-824-01-LR, RAS 8362
Download: ML042330073 (9)

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FROM :NNANC Y BURTON ESQ FAX NO. :203 938 3168 Aug. 09 2004 01:11PM P2 _

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OFFICE OF SECRETARY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RULEMAKINGS AND NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADJUDICATIONS STAFF BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of DOMINION NUCLEAR CONNECTICUT, INC. :Docket Nos. 60-336-LR, 50-423-LR (Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3) :ASLBP No. 04-824-01-LR AFFIDAVIT OF CYNTHIA M.BESADE I, Cynthia M. Besade, do hereby declare as follows:

1. I am above the age of eighteen (18) years-and I believe in the obligation of an oath.

2. From the age of three to age twenty (1963-1979), I resided with my family at 21 Fifth Avenue in Waterford, Connecticut, a location which is within two miles of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station.

3. My father, Joseph H. Besade, was employed at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station from 1973 until 1993 as a nuclear pipefitter.

4. In such capacity, my father was exposed at the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant workplace to ionizing radiation created as a byproduct of nuclear fission at the facility.

5. On or about May 2003, my father was diagnosed with cancer,

6. From May 2003 until August 2003, my father underwent treatment for his cancer.

7. Despite such treatment, my father's cancer spread rapidly and on August 16, 2003, my father succumbed to the disease.

8. My father's treating physician, who was affiliated with the New London I

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P3 Cancer Center and the Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, told me in August 2003 that she believed that what my father had related to her as follows was correct:

a. That my father's cancer was directly related to his workplace exposure at Millstone;

b. That my father was exposed to high levels of radioactivity in certain areas of the facility; and

c. That the protective clothing and lead blankets issued to workers, including my father, to prevent harm to their health from exposure to radiation were inadequate to the purpose.

9. I have been personally acquainted with many of my father's former co-workers at Millstone.

10. i am aware that seven (7) of.his nuclear pipefitter co-workers succumbed to cancer before he became the eighth.

11.When I was growing up inWaterford, I recall promoters of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station providing assurances to the community that the facility would be safe and that It would provide cheap, clean and non-polluting electricity.

Each of these representations has proved to be false.

12.1 have been personally acquainted with many families living in the Waterford, East Lyme and Niantic and surrounding communities.

13.1 have been personally acquainted with many individuals who have worked at Millstone and/or resided in the community surrounding Millstone who have died from cancer and cancer-related illnesses.

14. I have been personally acquainted with many individuals who have 2

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203 936 3168 Rug. 09 2004 01:i2PM @001/QQ1 P4 worked at Millstone and/or resided Inthe community surrounding Millstone who have been diagnosed with cancer, have undergone treatment for cancer and presently survive.

15. I am also indirectly acquainted with individuals who have worked at Millstone and/or resided in the community surrounding Millstone who have died from cancer and cancer-related Illnesses or who have undergone treatment for cancer and presently survive.

15. i attach hereto a list of the individuals referenced above in paragraphs 13, 14 and 16I. (Other than my father, the names of all others are not being revealed here although their identities are retained by me).

I hereby swear that the information provided herein Istrue to the best of my knowledge, Information and belief under penalty of perjury.

Cynthia M. Besade Dated: August 9, 2004 0,7 g

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FROM :NANCY BURTON ESQ FLAX NIO. :.203 938 3168 Fug. 09 2004 01:1i2P P5 Millstone Community Cancer Victims Personally Known

1. Joseph H. Besade Fifth Ave. Waterford Millstone worker/community Metastatic Lung Cancer Deceased/Aug. 16, 2003 Age 66

2. Male Daniels Ave. Waterford community Brain cancer Deceased/ 1980?

Age 60?

3. Male Third Ave. Waterford Millstone worker/community Brain cancer Deceased/year?

Age 35?

4. Male i Fifth Ave. Waterford community Age 65 diagnosed w/Lung cancer/ survivor ....... 2003 Fall Diagnosed wI Brain Cancer /survivor

5. Male/Doctor practice was located on Main St. Niantic community/I 970' &80's Blood cancertunknown type status unknown! 1996?1997?

Age 70?

6. Male Flanders Road/Rt. 161 Niantic community Throat cancer Deceased/ June 22, 2003 Age 72

7. Male Roxbury Road Niantic communitylparent of #8.

Metastatic Liver cancer Deceased/ 1979?

Age 60?

8. Male Roxbury Road Niantic 20 yr. Millstone worker/community Brain tumor diagnosed 1986129 years of age then, Survivor/disabled Current age 48 (Note: this begins the NU Unit Imaintenance dept. (personnel who handled contaminated waste) where three people developed brain cancer within the same timeframe. NU abruptly closed this department and dismissed the employees in Jan. 1994) NU had them to sign off to not file suft against them (NU offered and paid $ for sign off) to #8, 9, + 10

9. Male unknown address Millstone worker/community Brain cancer Deceased / 1998?

Age between 30 and 40 a

FROM :NRNCY BURTON ESQ FAX NO. :203 938 3169 Fug. 09 2004 01:12PM P6

10. Female Shennecossett Road Groton Millstone worker/community Brain cancer/diagnosed 1985 Deceased/1997

11. Female Miss Vans Court Waterford Community Leukemia Deceased/1995 Age 56

12. Male Tenth Ave. Waterford Community Blood cancer/Type? Deceased/1976?

Age 18

13. Mate Willets Ave. Waterford Community Brain cancer Deceased/1982 Age 30?

14. Male Oswegatchie Hills Road Niantic Millstone worker/community cancer? unknown type Deceased/2000 Age 70?

15. Male Niantic River Road Waterford community Brain Cancer Deceased/1981 Age 45? Taught Science at Waterford High

16. Male Niles Hill Road Waterford Millstone carpenter worker/community Lymphoma Survivor Age 30 something @ diagnosis 1997?

17. Male Monroe Street Waterford community Lymphoma Deceased/1986? 1987?

Age 50 something

18. Female Monroe Street Waterford community Lymphoma Deceased/1986? 1987?

Age unknown #18's mother-in-law

19. Female/child Mullen Hill Road Waterford community/father was Millstone worker Bone cancer Leg amputated/1971 or so? Survivor Age 11 ? (attended Southwest School) 20.. Male/teen unknown address/Sunset Dr. Waterford Tumors in Spinal column Deceased /1985 Age 19 (attended Southwest School)

21. Male Tiffany Ave. Waterford community pancreatic/liver cancer? Not real 5

FROM :NRNCY BURTON ESQ FAX NO. :203 938 3168 Aug. 09 2004 01:12PM P7 sure though Deceased /1987 Age 48?150?

22. Female Lloyd Road Waterford community Liver cancer Deceased /1980 Age 25?

23. Male Shore Road Waterford community kiygr QVnoer? DeceNRd (11 91 Age 50 something? {Parent to #25)

24. Male Shore Road Waterford Millstone carpenter workor/community Brain cancer (son of #24) Deceased ( Jan. 1987 Age 31

25. Female (mother of # 24) Roselund Hill Uncasville community(summered on Jordan Cove)w/24&25 Brain cancer Deceased/1 986 Age 70?

26. Male child Fifth Ave Waterford community leukemia Status unknown Age of diagnosis 2 or 3 years 27, Female child FiEh Avo Waterftf~community spinal tumors (attended Southwest School) Deceased 1975?

28. Female Shore Road Waterford community Breast Cancer/Double mastectomy Survivor Age: 25?

29. Female 15 Lamphere Road Waterford community Leukemia Deceased / 1979? 1980?

Age 18?

30. Male/ Vauxhall Steet ext Wateford community Lung cancer/deceased/2 000 Age 65?

31. Female/ unknown location Wtfd./NL community Breast cancer/ relative of above #33 Deceased/ 2001 Age unknown ? 60

32. Female/ Niantic community Breast cancer/ Deceased/ 2000? Or 1999?

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FROM :NANCY BURTON ESQ FAX NO. :203 938 3168 Fug. 09 2004 01:13PM PS Age 70?

33. Male/ Great Neck Road, Waterford community/ nursery farmer Cancer origin unkown? Deceased July 2004 Age 71

34. Male/ George Street Waterford/ then Spithead Road where he died this spring 2004/ Seaside Regional DMR/Director of Camp Harkness Age 54

35. Female/ Spithead Road Waterford community Age 65? Breast cancer /

survivor 36.

37. Male/ husband of # 35 Age 65? (Both relocated to Florida, both were recently diagnosed) Lymphoma

37. Female/ The Strand, Waterford community Breast cancer/ 1970's or early 80's survivor (another relocated to Florida)

38. Female/ a street off Oswegatchle Road, Waterford community Age 40? Breast Cancer/ Deceased 1985 or so?

39. Female/ Niantic River Road Waterford community/ worked in downtown Niantic Age 50? Breast Cancer Deceased/1 998?

40. Female/teen 17 at onset Rope Ferry Road, Waterford community/student Bone cancer/ leg amputated 1979? Survivor

41. Male/ Logger Hill/Rope Ferry Road Waterford/ then Niantic community Age 60? Lung Cancer / Deceased 2000

42. Male/ Quaker Hill Waterford Lung Cancer/ Age 58? Deceased 1990?

43.. Male/ Clark Lane Waterford community Age 45...diagnosed w/leukemia age 30 something survivor 44.. Male/Clark Lane Waterford community Age unkown maybe 50 something ..... Father to # 45. Deceased /

latel 980's/early 90's Cancer type unknown 45.. Female/ Dainels Avenue Waterford community (same family as listed in

1. 40.)

Breast Cancer/ Deceased 2003 7

FAX NO. :203 938 3168 Rug. 09 2004 01:13PM P9 FROM :NAC BURTON ESQ 46.. Female/ Niantic River Road Waterford community Cancer type can't remember ..... Deceased 1980's Mother in law to the #

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47. Female/ Niantic River Road (NOT THE SAME HOUSE BUT THE SAME FAMILY)

Breast Cancer real aggressive type inflammatory 1990 survivor Age 35?

48. Female/ Gallup Lane Waterford community Breast cancer 1975 Deceased same yr.

Age 35?

49.. Female/ Oswegatchie Waterford community Breast cancer 1974 1975? Deceased same yr.

Age 35?

50. Female Gay Hill Road Uncasville community pancreatic cancer Deceased/ 1982?

Age 60?

51. Female (mother of# 24) Roselund Hill Uncasville community Brain cancer Deceased/1986 Age 70?

Indirectly Acquainted

52. Female Seabreeze Drive, Waterford Breast Cancer, Deceased 2003 Age 83

53. Male, Seabreeze Drive, Waterford Colon Cancer, Deceased 2001

54. Male, Seabreeze Drive, Waterford Liver cancer Deceased 2003

55. Female, Seabreeze Drive, Waterford Breast Cancer 2000 survivor

56. Female Crescent Beach, East Lyme Age 10 at exposure, now 26 Thyroid Cancer survivor

57. Female Niantic Thyroid Cancer 2000 (?)

58. Female Niantic Breast Cancer 2000(?)

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FROM :NNANCY BURTON ESQ FAX NO. : 203 938 3168 Aug. 09 2004 01:13PM P10

58. Female Groton Long Point Breast cancer 1999 survivor

59. Female Shore Road, Waterford Cancer of unknown origin survivor

60. Female Waterford Ovarian cancer, high school sophomore, survivor

61. Female Mystic Breast cancer, 50s, survivor

62. Female Mystic Age 3 Cancer of unknown type

63. Male Niantic Brain cancer 2000 (?)

64. Female Niantic Brain cancer 1996(?)

65. Male Waterford School age, childhood leukemia 2003

66. Niantic - Cluster of cancer cases on Bluff during 1990s

67. Female Black Point, Niantic Cancer of unknown type 2003(?)

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