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1. Millstone Press Conference on HOT Spot 2. Rate increases in CT for decommissioning ——————————————- From: NancyBurtonEsq@aol.com CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE www.mothballmillstone.org MAJOR PRESS CONFERENCE TODA at NOON 1. KATIE THE GOAT EXPOSES NRC DECEPTION; GOAT PASTURE-RADIATION HOT SPOT POISED FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Date: November 14, 2005 Contact: Nancy Burton 203-938-3952/cell 203-545-9252 The Connecticut Coalition… Continue reading News – Millstone Press Conference and Rate Increases in CT for decommissioning

Tuesday, Wednesday, Nov. 15 & 16 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards PUBLIC MEETING on PROPOSED VERNON REACTOR UPRATE ************************************************* The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC ‘s) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards will hold a public meeting on Entergy Nuclear’s proposal to increase electrical output, along with profits and radioactive waste output, at New England’s oldest… Continue reading Tuesday, Wednesday, Nov. 15 & 16 – Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards – PUBLIC MEETING on PROPOSED VERNON REACTOR UPRATE

December 31, 2005 – Petition Update – The drive was ended by organizers as it did not have sufficient numbers to get on the ballot. We’re on a brief break. A new newsletter will come out in January. A. Petition Drive for the Massachusetts National Guard is in final days. B. Scott Ritter tours CT… Continue reading MA Guard campaign in last week; Ritter coming to WMass; NRC committee comes to VT

Traprock Homepage http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4425562.stm November 10, 2005 BBC UN warns on Iraq environment fate Inspectors found much of the waste rotting and abandoned. Derelict factories, military scrapyards and battle sites across Iraq pose a threat to the environment and to public health, the United Nations has said. The UN Environment Program has trained Iraqi specialists in… Continue reading DU contamination in Iraq

Support spreading for counter-recruitment protesters Hands off Dave! By Eric Ruder | November 11, 2005 | Page 2 Reprinted with permission of Socialist Worker DAVE AIRHART never thought that when he hung an antiwar banner on top of a climbing wall brought to his campus by military recruiters, it would land him in trouble with… Continue reading Support Spreading for counter-recruitment protesters

From Traprock Peace Center 103A Keets Road Deerfield, MA 01342 November 4, 2005 To Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee 223 Old Ferry Road Brattleboro, VT 05302Dear Sirs, I write to request a meeting to discuss concerns about the health effects of the proposed uprate at the Vernon reactor. In a phone conversation today was glad to… Continue reading To Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee

Urgent Appeals re Vernon Reactor November, 2005 1. Direct Action: Urgent Appeals re the Vernon Reactor 2. WXOJ airs EMERGENCY EVACUATION issue Monday, 6pm 3. Why we need real-time radiation monitors: in all area schools, healthcare facilities, & for the car-less, in a 50-mile radius. 4. What You can do 5. CALLS are urgently needed… Continue reading Urgent Appeals re: Vernon, VT Reactor

Attn: Kristin Wood Economic Development Specialist for Congressman John Olver Kristin.Wood@mail.house.gov Re: Constituent Concerns About Entergy Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Issues: Public Safety, Terrorism Susceptibility, Reliability, Inadequate Engineering Analysis Dear Congressman Olver, We need high-level leadership such as yours to represent the concerns and interests of our region with regard to threat to public… Continue reading Open Letter to Congressman John Olver

Iraq vet arrested at protest of military recruiters “We won’t let students be vulnerable” By Nicole Colson | November 4, 2005 | Page 12 – Socialist Worker Online “I CAME to Kent State because I figured that Kent is the total opposite of what the military is like.” But Kent State University student, former Marine… Continue reading Iraq vet arrested at protest of military recruiters – “We won’t let students be vulnerable”

Traprock homepage “But Iran’s nuclear program may have already taken a decisive step in the direction of nuclear weapons in recent weeks. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, the president has placed himself at the head of a new “Control Center for Nuclear Issues,” which is managed by his friends, the Revolutionary Guards. This enables… Continue reading DER SPIEGEL on: “The Threat from Tehran”