Comments and Questions About On-going Safety and Legal Issues at Maine Yankee

Concerns About Maine Yankee Safety and the Current Traffic in Nuclear Waste:

• Reactor re-start creates a public safety emergency.
• Existing emergency planning is obsolete.
• Biological monitoring database necessary for interpreting accidents, decommissioning, etc. is non-existent.
• The steam generator sludge deposits, plugged tubes, corrosion damage and weld-induced deformations are the tip of an iceberg of safety issues (e.g. reactor vessel embrittlement, spent fuel storage, health effects of plant releases, decommissioning scenarios, etc.) at Maine Yankee.
• The failure to fund disposal of Maine Yankee nuclear wastes is a very lucrative criminal activity.

Questions About Maine Yankee Safety and the Current Traffic in Nuclear Waste:

As Attorney General of the State of Maine don't you have a Constitutional obligation to:

• act to prevent the restart of a dilapidated reactor which poses a clear and present danger to the public safety?
• litigate with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to prevent the illegal accumulation of additional radioactive waste disposal costs by the future citizens of Maine?
• support the establishment of a special prosecutor to investigate the traffic in nuclear waste?
• seek the prosecution of those who would profit from the illegal operation of the degraded and dangerous equipment at Maine Yankee?

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