ML20249A516
| ML20249A516 | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 05/17/1998 |
| From: | Gloninger C, Gloninger J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
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I thank you and Representative Michael Forbes for allowing the voice of the people who live on 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 I
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 reg ardin g this most serious of decisions.
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 Power Plant, the plant was shut down 'and decommissioned.
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million people who live on Long Island said, "NO!" to this plant and they were heard.
The Millstone Nuclear Power Station is as c1cse or closer to us'than the Shoreham Nuclear power Plant.
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 cencerns for the public at large.
Based on past history involving the nuclear industry, f acilities have not operated saf ely by both the utilit'y companies who own them, nor by yeur agency who is ultimately re s so.ns i bl e for monitoring these f acilities.
It is common knowledge that nuclear f acilities periodically omit radioactive materials into the air, water, and soil.
To believe that we the people think this is accept'able is interrect.
The~ radioactive plume that is presently spreading from a wo called monitored government reactor, the BNL, has recent1y shown that sediment in the Peconic River is contaminated as is the ground water, soil, and the animals s
that live in and around that nuclear facility.
It would be both naive and ignorant to dismiss the serious health hacards incurred from 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 cencers in our children and our adults.
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Wouldn*t it be a. terrible thing to think 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!
It is comforting to know that Northwest Utilities Systems has stated that they take safety issues mest seriously.
Lilco said the same thing.
The NRC states the same thing, and yet the &NL. which is a government facility, under your jurisdiction, has containinated many parts of our beautiful island, killing our population slowly and cruelly.
It is a known fact in the field of science, health, and genetics, that radiation causes cancer.
There IS no threshold for the anount 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 weste is yet anothe-issue which you have 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 live on Lens.slend, 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 237. of the time.
Taking all these issues into account. it is unreenonable to think that thase plants sheuld be allowed to reopen.
I ask you to say, "NO!" to the restarting of any of the i
Millstone Nuclear Reactors.
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