ML051330103
| ML051330103 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 03/28/2005 |
| From: | Burton N Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone |
| To: | Emch R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| Download: ML051330103 (5) | |
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Richard Emch - Fwd: Strontium-90 Page1i From:
<NancyBurtonEsq @ aol.com>
To:
<rle~nrc.gov>
Date:
Mon, Mar 28, 2005 3:09 PM
Subject:
Fwd: Strontium-90 CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE
_www.mothballmillstone.org- (http://www.mothballmillstone.org/)
March 28, 2005
Dear Mr. Emch,
Please include this communication as among the comments of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone with regard to the draft EIS for Millstone license renewal.
Sincerely, Nancy Burton Please reply to:
Nancy Burton 147 Cross Highway Redding Ridge CT 06876 Tel. 203-938-3952 CC:
<ajkl @nrc.gov>
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To:
<warren.wollschlager © po.state.ct.us>
Date:
Mon, Mar 28, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject:
Strontium-90 CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE
-www.mothballmillstone.org- (http://www.mothballmillstone.org/)
March 28, 2005
Dear Mr. Wollschlager,
Shortly, we will address a further communication to Dr. Galvin regarding elevated concentrations of strontium-90 in goat milk sampled five miles downwind of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station. (Please refer to the attached article which appeared in yesterday's New London Day.)
We believe that this information requires Dr. Galvin's most urgent attention.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Nancy Burton Please reply to:
Nancy Burton 147 Cross Highway Redding Ridge CT 06876 Tel. 203-938-3952 CC:
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Featured in Region Millstone Foes Submit Report Showing Goat's Milk Tainted By PATRICIA DADDONA Day Staff Writer, Waterford Published on 3/27/2005 Waterford -Ernest J. Sternglass, an authority on the effects of low-level radiation, has submitted an opinion to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission through a local anti-Millstone coalition that analysis of goat's milk four years ago shows the nuclear power station should be shut down, not relicensed.
The NRC is in the midst of a multi-year examination of whether to relicense Millstone Power Station Units 2 and 3 through 2035 and 2045, respectively. The process is expected to be complete by the summer of 2006. The comment period on the environmental impacts closed recently.
The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone submitted Sternglass' opinion that concentrations of Strontium 90, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission, were "extremely large" in goat's milk from a farm 5.5. miles away on Sept. 19, 2001.
The NRC is reviewing Sternglass' findings, but its assessment of environmental impacts so far has found no significant radiological effects, said NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan.
Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, owner of Millstone, monitors radioactivity in goat's milk from farms in the area twice a month and routinely monitors air and fluid emissions from the reactors, said Dominion spokesman Pete Hyde.
Hyde said the company reviewed its radiological monitoring systems before, during and after the Sept. 19, 2001 sample was found, and determined it did not come from the reactors, he said.
DRichard Erich - GoatMilkNLDay32705.doc Page 21 Richard Emch - GoaIMiIkN LDay327O5.doc Page 2 1 Both the NRC and Dominion maintain, as Hyde put it, that "a large sector of the scientific community strongly believes that weapons testing is the source of Strontium 90, as opposed to nuclear reactors that generate electricity," Hyde added.
Sternglass argues that Strontium 90 has a half-life of 28 years, and its health risks, in combination with other radiological emissions, have been "underestimated" by the nuclear power industry.
Judith Johnsrud of the Nuclear Information Resource Service said Sternglass' findings deserve serious consideration because the accuracy of his research has often been confirmed after the fact.
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