ML20248D174
| ML20248D174 | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 05/17/1998 |
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| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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To The Members of The NRC Commissient I thank you and Representative Michael Forbes for allowing the voiec of the people who live en the eastern and of Long Island, NY to be given the opportunity to publicly comment en the opening of the Milletone Nuclear Reactor 3 in Millstone, Connecticut, which is 1ccated 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 write end express my feelings regarding this most serious of dwqisions.
As you know, it was. determined that due to.the infeasibility to safely evacuate Long Island residents in the event of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham Nuclear Fower 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 Mill. stone Nuclear Power Station is as close or closer to us than the Shoreham Nuclear Power Pl an t.
Millstone 3 was shut down in 1996 due to operational safety problems. Millstone i 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 cencerns for the public 'at large.
Based on past history invelving the nucinar industry, f acilities have not operated saf ely by both the utility companies who own them, nor by yeur agency who is ultimately responsible for monitoring these facilities.
It is common knowledge that nuclear f acilitioe periodically emit radioactive materials into the air, water, and soil.
To believe that we the people think this is acceptable is interrect.
The radioactive plume that is presently s pr e ad ing from a so called monitored governnent reactor, the BNL, has recently shown that sediment in the Peconic River is
' contaminated, as is the ground water, soil, anu the animals that live in and around that nuclear facility.
It would be
,both naive and ignoran t to dismiss the serious health hazards incurred from the emissions of these nuclear f acili ties.
Cancer rates are soaring.
We on the East End'of Long Island are presently ccnducting investigations into the l
reasons for the unusually high incidence of unusual caneces I
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Fork. we have identified a cluster of children dying f r om all sorts of cancers.
Wouldn't it be c turriblW thing to think that based on your decis. ion to open yet another nuclear reacter, you could ba endangering the lives of so many innocent people, all in the n.sme of supplying ad.*quate electricity to run air eneditioners? Huw many of you have had first hand experivnce wa tching a child, a grandchild, ne 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 immunu.
Once~ the damage is done, it's done!
It is comforting to knoW that Northwest Utilitics Systems has stated that they take safety issues nest seriously.
Lilee said the sAme thing.
The NRC '.;t.itos the same thing, and ywt the BNL, which in a government facility, under ycur.j u risd ic t ion, has contaminated many paits of our beautiful island, killing our population slowly and cruelly.
It is a known fact in the field of mejence, health, and genetics, that radiation causus centwr.
Thwre 1S no threshole ftr the amcunt of radia tion needed to produco mutations in nur cells.
The majority of mutations in an crganism. ire not censidered cafe changww for that organism's survival.
Even the smallest amounts of radiatien causes damage to our bodies.
The issue of safely storing nucisar weste is yet another issue which you havw not resolved.
How many of you on the commission would build your homes near a nuclear dump site?
The evacuation issue is still a major issue for the people who livu on Lohg Island, especially those of us who live on the eastern end of the Island.
It was proven that there is 30 safe evacuation for us.
Wu are down wind from the Millstone Plants mere than 237. of the t i t e*.
Taking all these issues into account. it is unreenon able to think that thaso plants sheuld be allcwed to reopan.
I ask you to say, "NO!" to the restarting of any of the Pillstone Nuclear Reacters Sincerely.
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