ML20248A654
| ML20248A654 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 05/17/1998 |
| From: | Forst J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
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| NUDOCS 9806010004 | |
| Download: ML20248A654 (2) | |
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'98 MM 22 All:14 Members of the Commission of the NRC U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission OFF. -
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.I thank you and Representative Michael Forbes for allowing the voice of the people who live on the eastern end of Long Island, NY to be given the opportunity to publicly comment on the opening of the Millstone Nuclear Reactor 3 in l
Millstone, Connecticut, which is located slightly more than 10 miles away from us.
I am unable to attend the meeting scheduled for May 26th in Jamesport, so I have decided to wri.te and express my feelings regarding this most serious of decisions.
As you
'know, it was determined that due to the infeasibility to j
safely evacuate Long Island residents in the event of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, the plant was shut down and decommissioned.
The voice of the 3+
million people who live on Long Island said, "No!" to this plant and they were heard.
The Millstone Nuclear Power Station is as close or closer to us than the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant.
l Millstone 3 was shut down in 1996 due to operational safety problems. Millstone 1 was closed.in 1995 when one of its emergency cooling systems was declared unable to operate safely.
Millstone 2 was closed in 1996 due to safety concerns for the public at large.
Based on past history involving the nuclear industry, facilities have not operated safely by both the utility companies who own them, nor by your agency who is ultimately responsible for monitoring these facilities.
It is common knowledge that nuclear facilities periodically emit radioactive materials into the air, water, and soil.
I To believe that we the people think this is acceptable is incorrect..The radioactive plume that is presently spreading from a so called monitored government reactor, the BNL, has recently shown that sediment in the Peconic River is contaminated, as is the ground water, soil, and the animals that live in and around that nuclear facility.
It would be i
both naive and ignorant to dismiss the serious health hazards I
l incurred from the emissions of these nuclear facilities.
Cancer rates are soaring.
We on the East End of Long l
Island are p'resently conducting investigations into the l
reasons for the unusually high incidence of unusual cancers in our children and our adults.
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.T Fork, we have identified a cluster of children dying from all sorts of' cancers.
Wouldn't it be a terrible thing to think L
that based on your decision _to open yet another nuclear reactor, you could be endangering the lives of so many innocent people, all in the name of supplying adequate electricity to run air conditioners.
How many of you have
'had first hand experience watching a child, a grandchild, or a friend die unnecessarily due to one of your decisions to allow a dangerous nuclear facility to be allowed to be put on line, only to.be shut down due to safety issues.
Once the damage is-done, it's done!
I It is' comforting to know that Northwest Utilities Systems has stated that they take safety issues most l
seriously.
Lilco said the same thing. -The NRC states the same thing, and yet the BNL, which is a government facility, under your Jurisdiction, has contaminated many parts of our beautiful island, killing our population slowly and cruelly.
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,'It is a known fact in the field of science, health, and j
4-genetics, that radiation causes cancer.
There if no threshold for the amount of radiation needed to produce mutations in our cells.
The majority of mutations in an organism are not considered safe changes for that organism's survival.
Even the smallest amounts of radiation causes damage to our bodies.
The. issue of safely storing nuclear waste'is.yet another issue which you have not resolved.
How many of you on the l-commission would build your homeg near a nuclear dump site?
The evacuation issue is still a mhjor issue for the people who live on Long Island, especially those of us who live on the eastern end of the Island.
It was proven that there is no safe evacuation for us.
We are down wind from the Millstone Plants more than 25% of the time.
Taking all these insbes into account, it is unreasonable to think that these plants should be allowed to reopen.
' I ask you to say, "N0!" to the restarting of any of the Millstone Nuclear Reactors.
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