ML20248C004
| ML20248C004 | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 05/17/1998 |
| From: | Rothman J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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I thank you and Representative Michael Forbes for I
allowing the voice of the pecole who live en the eastern und of Long Island, NY to be given the opportunity to publicly comment on the opening of the Millstone Nuclear Reactor 3 in Millstone, Connecticut, which is located slightly more than 10 miles away from us.
I am unable to attend the meeting scheduleo for May 26th in Jamesport, so I have decided to write end express my f ee lings regarding this meat serious of decisions.
As you know, it was determined that duo to.the infeasibility to 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+
- illion peop1* who live on Long Island said, "NO!" to this n
plant and they were heard.
The Millstone Nuclear Power Station is as close or closer to us than the Shorehan Nuclear Power Plent.
Millstone 3 was shut down in 1996 due te eperattenal safety problems. Millstone 1 was closed.in 1995 when one of ita energency cooling systems was declared unable to operate safely.
Millstone 2 was closed in 1996 due to safvty cencerns for the public at largo, 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 j
knowledge that nuclear fecilities periodically emit j
radioactive materials into the air, water, and soil.
l To believe thwt we the people thint this is accept'able is inccrrect.
The radioactive plume that is presently spr ead in g from a so called monitored government reactor, the BNL, has r ec en tl y shown that sedimant in the peconic River is i
contaminated, as is the ground water, soil, and the animals
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that live in and around that nuclear facility.
It would be both naive and ignorant to dismiss the serious health hazards incurred frem the emissions of these nuclear facilities.
Cancer rates are soaring.
We on the East End'of Long Island are presently conducting investigations into the reasons for the unusually high incidence of unusual cancers in our children and our adults.
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a have identified a cluster of children dying from all Fork, we sorts of cancers.
Wouldn*t it be a twrrible thing to think
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that based on your decision to open yet another nuclear reacter, you could be endangering the lives of su many innocent peepic, all in the name of supplying ad=quate electricity to run air conditioners? Huw many of you have had first hand experience watching a child, a grandchild, er a friend die unnecessarily due to one of your decisions to allow a dangerous nucles-facility to be allowed to be put on i
line, only to be shut down due to safety issucc.
l Once'the damage is done, it's done!
It is comforting to know that Northwest Utilities j
Eystems has stated that they take safety issues most mariously. Lilco said the same thing.
The NHC states the same thing, and yet the BNL, which is a gove rnmen t facility, under your.lu risd ic tion, has contaminated many parts of our
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l deautiful island, killing our population slowly and cruelly.
It is a known fact in the field of science, heal &S. and genetics, ths.s radiation causes. cancer.
Thwre IS no threshold for the amount of radiation needed to produce mutations in our cells.
The majority of mutatiens in an organism are not considered safe changes for that organism's survival.
Ev en the smallest amounts of radiation causps
- damage to our bodies.
The issue of safely storing nuclear weste is yet another issue which you have not resolved.
How many of you on the commission would build your homes near a nucivar dump i.ite?
The evacuation issue in still a major 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 mere than 25% of the time.
Taking all these issues into account, it is unreemonable to think that these J
plants should be allowed to reopen.
1 I ask you to say, "NO!" to the restarting of any of the Millstone Nuclear Reactors.
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