Dear Attorney General Coakley,

From: Michael Mulligan <steamshovel2002@yahoo.com>
To: "ago@state.ma.us" <ago@state.ma.us>
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 10:55 AM
Subject: Safety Relief Valves at the Pilgrim Nuclear Station


Dear Attorney General Coakley,

I called your agency's tip line yesterday to explain my issues and they connected me to a place where I could leave a recorded message for some kind of complaint. This is a written follow up to that.

I worked as a licensed nuclear operator at a sister plant Vermont Yankee for many years and I was in the Navy stationed on a nuclear fast attack submarine. Got fired for raising safety issues at Vermont Yankee in 1992.

Ultimately, my aims are to transform the nuclear regulatory commission. I support the good guys in the plant control room...I think telling the truth is good for our nation and it makes the nuclear industry and a nuclear plant more safe and strong.
 
My name is all over the NRC's Adams document system...I am an expert on their document system.

It would be nice if the Massachusetts joined my petition in some way...gained me some leverage and status over the NRC ...help me gain the documents and information not so far disclosed. I would like Massachusetts and the Attorney General to demand an immediate shutdown of Pilgrim to repair/replace these valves...to demand from the NRC a thorough "special inspection" over these safety relief valves. I discovered the forth new leak from a plant insider. I think this is a generic issue at many plants.

This is a cover-up since the nemo blizzard restart. You have to have $100,000s worth of special nuclear education that gets you to look in the right direction and ask the right question...instead of the NRC and the Pilgrim plant to thoroughly self disclose to a community. It is just not right...it is honesty and integrity! Do you know the difference between state oversight between Massachusetts and Vermont?


Personally, I think the NRC is thumbing their nose at Massachusetts and the Attorney General's office over the recent court relicensing case. We are the top dog here in Massachusetts with a nuclear plant...we can allow Pilgrim to operate in any manner we wish. I am certain the NRC is looking over their shoulder to the nuclear industry with recent events...the states will never have any influence over the safety of a nuclear plant. It is similar to the Vermont Yankee and Vermont state court case. The agency and industry are edgy over this with a lot of money on the line...so they are allowing the Pilgrim Plant to operate outside the lines as a showcase to the industry...show that NRC will always dominate over plant operation even if they are unsafe.

The industry with natural gas fracting, low electric demand and cheap electric grid prices has never been as economically threatened as it is now with declining stock prices and budget cutbacks at the plants. The NRC is totally controlled by the rabid mad dog congressional extreme right wing Republicans. The Nuclear Regulatory commission is in terrible shape.

I grew up in the Pine Point section of Springfield Ma!

Mike Mulligan
Hinsdale, NH
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