ML060120360
| ML060120360 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 03/16/2005 |
| From: | Burton N Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone |
| To: | NRC/ADM/DAS/RDB |
| Santos C 301-415-7270 | |
| References | |
| RE 120 | |
| Download: ML060120360 (52) | |
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discharge point to the Niantic Bay shoreline, a popular summer destination for families with young children.
- 5. On or before 1997, Millstone dispensed with its measurement of strontium-90 in quarterly cornposited air particulate filters, relying instead on infrequent sampling of goat milk in the community to determine whether its strontium-90 emissions reached harmful levels after-the-fact.
- 6. In September 1 999, Northeast Utilities, predecessor to Dominion, pleaded guilty to committing environmental felonies including falsifying environmental monitoring records and releasing hydrazine, a carcinogen, illegally into the Long Island sound."
- 7. A Connecticut Superior Court judge enjoined the restart of Millstone Unit 2 in 1999 because he was persuaded that the health and stability of the indigenous Niantic winter flounder stocks were endangered by operations of the Millstone intake structures through entrainment and impingement. Fish Unlimited v. Northeast Utilities.
- 8. In 2000, two commercial fishermen sued Northeast Utilities for tortiously causing the collapse of the formerly commercially viable Niantic winter ilounder fishing stocks: their suit remains pending.
- 9. In 2000, Northeast Utilities acknowledged that - even under daily supervision by onsite inspectors of the NRC - it had lost two highly radioactive spent fuel rods from the Unit 1 spent fuel pool.
- 10.
In 2000, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control
("DPUC") oversaw a "public auction" by Northeast Utilities to sell the Millstone Nuclear Power Station; the public was excluded from the "public auction"; virtually all key "public auction" documents were redacted and ordered sealed by the DPUC; over public protest, and despite the Coalition's disclosure that Dominion had the worst safety record in the nuclear industry including the deaths of seven nuclear workers at its nuclear facilities in Virginia, the DPUC approved the sale of Millstone to Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., ("DNC") at the time a paper entity with no assets with only a post off ice box in Niantic, Connecticut; when the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone obtained a Superior Court hearing date for a judge to consider its challenge to the rigged sale and the prospective transfer of expired environmental permits to DNC, lawyers for Northeast Utilities and DNC met exparte with Superior Court Chief 22 -
See "Owner of Connecticut Nuclear Plant Accepts a Record Fine" (New York Times September 28,1999))
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