Palisades CRDM Pressure Boundary Cracks

Originally published on 8/13/12...

Sept 7:
Basically they deferred to a operate until failure- leak philosophy based on a helter-skelter inspection and science to appease the NRC. The, as long as you got any old justification to feed to the stupid public you are good to go.

As advertised, they are basing this on risk related regulation with the knowledge they can choke down the worst accident...

It looks to me corrosion at PWRs are running out of control....they are only fixing the leaks one at a time.

I am certain Palisades and TMI have a lot of studies on corrosion... they withhold from public disclosure based on property and special secrets authorized by the NRC...
One thing you can clearly see is they don't have an industry wide centralized group overseeing corrosion in the PWR...a single set of codes backed by big science with how they deal corrosion and pressure boundary degradation...

They are all inventing through a decentralized structure each one off opportunity. Each choice of metal ends up a failed experiment. Might as be playing the doggies at the track.

Palisades:

Prior to 2001 cracks 347 Stainless Steel.

After the 2001 cracks replace with Alloy 600 Stainless Steel

After new crack replaced with
316 Stainless Steel by 2002 upper housing

 TMI

 Found on: alloy 600 diaphragm for the upper pressurizer heater

 replaced with: stainless steel, non-alloy 600 heater diaphragm

 (304 stainless steal)


...Sept 1, 2012:

I am talking about advance elite education placed in positions of unbelievable privilege, prestige and stature...only serving the high elite's incomes and elites in general profits. It makes institutional (colleges and universities) knowledge and science predominantly only serving the 1%ers...it forces the whole planet into being exclusively aligned as a slave into meeting the needs of our rich and powerful.    

I am just saying, through the history of the NRC and Entergy over CRDM leaks and shutdowns...they have demonstrated utterly no understanding of metallurgy crack development or crack growth rates. It leaks over and over again, leading to over and over again to destructively damaging equipment with unnecessarily shutdowns between outages.

If this metallurgy science worked, it would perfectly predict defects, crack and leaks...it would cause them to use materials and engineering designs to prevents defects. Palisades would never again be baffled by any kind of corrosion in any metals. The science they like, is how to extract the most in your pocket profits out of machine not caring about risk. Basically the elite class of our nation extracting the most money they can out of a system that serves our common good...sucking the life blood to death out of a vital public service we all need. 

The thrust of the material and metallurgy science and PhD metallurgist education is to figure our how to scam out lengthening the time between inspections and replacement without better science based materials and engineering designs.

It is as if they put no money into money into metallurgy to prevent rust, corrosio and science based materials...they place all their metallurgist, PhD education and material science, place their money betting its cheaper repairing leaks and getting the regulator to ignore the leaks, coming from I don't know where...

 Let me tell you where this voodoo pay for play PhD metallurgist absolute proof science we got a defect and cracks growing has gotten us. The mythical perfect god's eye view is we know everything about the defect,but they never can predict it coming. They use this advanced education and high science to increase the length between inspection and replacement.....it all about them thinking they have god's eyes view they understand every aspect of every condition in their extraordinarily complex obsolete machine to prevent the beyond Fukushima meltdown. All of the inspections and crack growth is based on a acceptance of the risk of a  beyond a Fukushima level accident. They get cracks and leaks over and over again...the myth they project to you is they have a prefect god's view understanding on what is going on in their engines and all around them to get into the next outage where they won't do anything about the known cracks.

 And we are all following blind people who speak big boy elite school words that they don't understand...

It is a "confidence game" based on tax reductions to millionaires and insigificant nothing government just like the Republican presidential elections...

And it can leak for months before they have to disclose it to the public...usually just before a shutdown...

95% of what the public sees of the nuclear industry is a confidence game coming from the educated elites...  

Extracting educated elite exorbitant  income out a machine and public system...with very little worth going to the people...extracting enormous elite incomes from a vulnerable system that drives a system to take more risk to provide a invaluable vital public service....

And it can leak for months before they have to disclose it to the public...usually just before a shutdown...
July 31

I still can over it, 9 cracks in the one bad leaking CRDM, while zero cracks on the eight additionally tested CRDM...

 Call me stupid, but this feels exactly like the same prolonged pay to play metallurgy razzmatazz as the service water coupling...

What happens when another housing leak shows up and it makes everyone full of shit...

Witchcraft:

The NRC evaluated the conservative timeline for the CRDM inspections to be approximately 24 months with six heatup cycles and about 18-20 months, then, for an undetected crack to propagate, while the licensee evaluated the timeline to be approximately 40-50 months based on their analysis method.

...The nuclear industry wrote its own rules and codes...is following the rules enough?

they reviewed all the regulatory requirements and industry standards and concluded that they met all the regulatory requirements

80% of the CRDM weren't tested...

Oh baby, do you believe them with 58% capacity factor from the last outage...they probably will be down for 6 months. One more defect in any of the 8 CRDNs tested, 9 cracks in CDRM # 24... and they would then eat 100 rems and months of a shutdown. I submit to you the NRC would then make all the CRDM not safe.

The licensee responded by stating that their examinations related to the eight CRDMs revealed no indications, they made a conservative decision to ship CRDM 24 off site for additional inspections, and that they reviewed all the regulatory requirements and industry standards and concluded that they met all the regulatory requirements.

If they find one more crack:

The licensee stated that they reviewed their radiological dose assessments for inspecting the center CRDM and concluded that they would have to cut out 4 CRDMs and remove support tubes for approximately 10-12 CRDMs to inspect the center rod and that their expected radiological dose for this task was 75-85 Rem.

These highly educated engineers tried to blow this one by the NRC:

...and that the flaw could be growing in a time period that was less than six refueling cycles because of the temperature changes experienced by the CRDMs when the plant heated up or cooled down.

 In other words, all these preventable shutdowns at Palisades mattered in making these cracks grow:

...would have to show that the CRDMs were unaffected by the temperature cycles that were experienced in between refueling cycles.

They find this on the leaking CRDM:

The independent facility also performed dye penetrant testing (PT) on the CRDM 24 structural welds. The PT revealed nine cracks in the area of weld no. 5, of which seven were previously identified by Palisades personnel by the UT performed on site.

...You get it, just before the leak nobody knows what the fuck is going on with the cracking metal. Just prior to start up they become all seeing gods who know everything. I think all this stuff post crack with the PhD metallurgist is all high paid razzmatazz.

..Palisades CRDM pressure boundary cracks

You know, how come nobody is talking about the worst accident with the CRDM cracks.

Obviously it either its a large unisolatable water leak or a control rod ejection accident....

So why no talk about the possible worst accident...

Right, it is a big deal the difference between the worth of a peripheral rod and the center rod...

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant: More Junk

I think we are poorer maintenance and degraded component wise today...with the burdens of winter taking a toll on this plant. Pilgrim transformer and high voltage power lines are in the same group as these guys.
What I noticed last month was how sloppy Calvet Cliffs is with their service water system. It now leaks like a sift and the metal is a thin as aluminum foil in spots. 

Nuclear regulators send inspectors to Calvert Cliffs

Reactors at nuclear power plant in southern Maryland shut down last week after an electrical malfunction.

By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun

4:50 p.m. EST, January 27, 2014

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday that it is conducting a special inspection at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland after an electrical malfunction caused the two reactors there to shut down.

The plant, which restarted both reactors over the weekend, suffered the shutdown after snow and ice during a storm Jan. 21 apparently affected a ventilation louver filter and caused a short circuit. After the electrical supply system shut down, so did several plant systems and components that rely on electricity, the nuclear regulatory agency said Monday.

Those components included motors for moving control rods and water circulating pumps for the Unit 2 reactor, the agency said. The main turbine control circuit for the Unit 1 reactor also malfunctioned after the electricity loss.

http://newhinsdalebridge.blogspot.com/#!/2013/12/calvert-cliffs-crap-service-water-piping.html

I am below saying Calvert Cliffs sweared their EPDM rubber pipe patches in a report said there was no failures ever with this material...then in another report this rubber patch material failed.
They aren't trust worthy!

Calvert Cliffs Crap Service Water Piping

Following is a listing of nuclear plants known, as cited by the vendor of the mechanical sleeve assembly (Altran), to have installed EPDM internal mechanical sleeves that are similar in design to the proposed mechanical sleeve assembly for Calvert Cliffs.

So these are the guys with crap saltwater piping system. What should you think about the Salem site with 200 units?

Facility System Pipe Size & - Quantity* Installation Date Environment

Seabrook Service Water 24", 65 Units 1995-2000 Saltwater

Millstone 1 Service Water 30", 30 Units 1995 Saltwater

Millstone 2 Service Water 24", 15 Units 1999 Saltwater

Millstone 3 Service Water 20-30", 20 Units 2000 Saltwater

Indian Point 3 Service Water 24", 60 Units 1999 Brackish Water

Salem U-I & 2 Service Water 24", 200 Units Mid 2000s Brackish Water

Have they thought about this accident?

The patch fails under the turbine building. It washing away dirt and undermines a significant portion of the building. The building collapses?

OK, so we have large segments of piping lined with deteriorated cement mortar. How about a earthquake shows up or some other undefined event that knocks off or shakes off a significant amount of the deteriorated mortar. Tons of this stuff clogs a host of heat exchangers and emergency diesel generators leading to a core meltdown. These guys must have been picking out cement pieces from heat exchangers, valves and orifices for years.

They says all the salt water system piping has a one quarter inch thick layer of cement mortor on the inside.

Proposed Alternative for Mitigation of Buried Saltwater Piping Degradation

"It should be noted that much of the buried Saltwater System piping to be inspected runs under the 3 feet thick steel reinforced concrete base mat of the Turbine Building. The base mat supports numerous equipment and components that are located directly above the path of the buried piping.

During previous internal inspections of the piping, areas of missing or deteriorated cement mortar liner have been identified and the mortar lining repaired.

I see, build a turbine building over a emergency cooling pipe line, then you got the excuse for the rest of the life of the plant to put in cheap quick fixes. Right, they could have put in a reinforced concrete tunnel or a concrete vault around the seawater pipe during construction where it would have been relatively easy to replace the pipe in the future.

"The construction cost, impact on outage duration, and operational challenges to replace a portion of the buried Saltwater System piping during an outage are substantial."

So Calvert Cliffs had been watching the wall thinning for a year or more until it leaked. They all got this problem!

"The plant, owned and operated by CENG, a joint venture between Exelon and Électricité de France, has two 2700 megawatt thermal (MWth) Combustion Engineering Generation II two-loop pressurized water reactors. Each generating plant (CCNPP 1&2) produces approximately 850 megawatt electrical (MWe) net or 900 MWe gross. "

EPDM rubber

They are asking ASME and for regulatory relief before they even find a leak.

Proposed Alternative for Mitigation of Buried Saltwater Piping Degradation

During future refueling outages Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, LLC (Calvert Cliffs) will be conducting required inspections of our buried Saltwater System piping on both Calvert Cliffs Unit I and Unit 2. The buried Saltwater System piping for both units are American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section XI, Inservice Inspection Class 3 systems. In case any of these future inspections identify defects requiring repair it is prudent that Calvert Cliffs submit a proposed alternative repair (RR-ISI-04-08) for Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval. The proposed alternative repair request is contained in Attachment (1). Since much of the Saltwater System piping runs beneath our turbine building floor, replacement of the buried Saltwater System piping would be a hardship or unusual difficulty without a compensating increase in the level of quality and safety, therefore the proposed alternative repair is submitted for approval in accordance with 10 CFR 50.55a(a)(3)(ii). This proposed alternative would be applicable to the repairs of future defects identified in buried portions of our Saltwater System piping throughout the Fourth Ten Year Inservice Inspection Interval.

Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer

Unit one 05000316 ** Unit two 05000317

November 14, 2013

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555
ATTENTION: Document Control Desk
SUBJECT: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
Unit No. 2; Docket No. 50-318

Proposed 10 CFR 50.55a Request for Unit 2 Repair of Saltwater Piping Leak

(RR-ISI-04-09)
1. ASME Code Component(s) Affected Calvert Cliffs Unit 2 Saltwater (SW) System pipe line 12"-LJI-201 1. This is a 12 inch schedule STD (12.75 inch OD by 0.375 inch nominal wall) American Society for Testing and Materials A-53 Gr B carbon steel pipe that is rubber lined to prevent interaction of the carbon steel with brackish Chesapeake Bay water. This 12 inch line ties into the 24 inch SW discharge header via a reducing tee. The 24 inch header routes the heat exchanger discharge from both trains of SW to a 30 inch underground pipe and then discharges into the Unit 2 circulating water discharge conduit going back to the Chesapeake Bay.

How come Seabrook doesn't had this service life of 50 years EPDM rubber stuff?

SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELIEF REQUEST RR-ISI-04-08 REGARDING MITIGATION OF BURIED SALTWATER PIPING DEGRADATION.

Operating Conditions

The NRC staff questioned the operating temperature and pressure of the subject pipe. In Reference 2, the licensee clarified that the saltwater system operating temperature varies in accordance with Chesapeake Bay temperature throughout the year. The licensee stated that based on the past operating experience on rare occasions the temperature of the saltwater recorded a low of 30 degrees Fahrenheit CF). The range for saltwater should be adjusted between 30 and 95 OF, versus the stated range in the relief request of 32 to 95 OF. The licensee stated that the temperature range of 30 to 95 OF and the design pressure of 50 pounds per quare inch gauge (psig) bound the system's parameters during normal, emergency and faulted conditions.

Durability

The licensee stated that the EPDM rubber has a service life of 50 years in submerged conditions similar to those experienced at Calvert Cliffs. The licensee noted that the operating history of the rubber used in safety-related service water systems of other nuclear power plants has been excellent and no deterioration of the rubber has been identified. The EPDM rubber is designed to withstand a non-steam environment temperature of up to 300 OF. The general...

You get it, widespread breakdown in the quality of the seawater system piping caused by aging. These are recent events. Calvert’s trick is to ignore the ASME and get easy relief from the NRC... stick temporary patches on the pipes.

Are they is falsifying federal documents and its gross engineering fraud...

These nuclear plants and the NRC are lying their asses over their delapated service water and seawater cooling systems.

I am pretty sure the "rubber lining" in the first leak is same EPDM rubber in the patch job. But I don't have absolute proof. That is the weak link...

The new leak.

"A manufacturing defect has resulted in a local failure of the rubber lining, such as a seam split, that has allowed SW to come in contact with the carbon steel."

Metal reinforced polymeric patches in the seawater system the crap 35 inch piping.

The EPDM rubber has also been designed for a 50 year life. The licensee stated that the EPDM rubber has a service life of 50 years in submerged conditions similar to those experienced at Calvert Cliffs. The licensee noted that the operating history of the rubber used in safety-related service water systems of other nuclear power plants has been excellent and no deterioration of the rubber has been identified.

Posted 22nd December 2013 by Mike Mulligan

Seabrook's Crap Service Water System

So why does the American Nuclear Society think Seabrook is so vulnerable...maybe because they know Seabrook isn't taking care of their plant?

Nuclear Matinee: Economic Benefits from Seabrook Station

Posted on January 24, 2014 by ansnuclearcafe| 1 Comment

A nuclear power station contributes a lot more in benefits to a community and region than just massive amounts of 24/7 electricity generation—although it should be noted that, in the case of Seabrook Station alone, 42 percent of New Hampshire’s entire electricity generation comes from this single power plant. Amazing. See this excellent post at NEI Nuclear Notes for more on Seabrook’s “bigger picture,” and this story for more on regional economic benefits in particular...

First posted on 1/9/ 2014

I am paranoid no doubt. It is just interesting the delay from the Shaheen staff…did the NRC coach them to wait until the LER came out before they submitted my letter? Isn’t that a strange set of enquires and responses…with the LER coming in within days on the link of the first post (1/7) below. Do i have great timing?

　Seabrook Nuclear Station's "Crap" Service Water Piping System 　 

Sarah,

This is the first LER that came out today (1/9):

http://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber='ML13365A003'

Sarah,

So the service water piping leak was discovered to be leaking 10 drops per minute on Aug 7.

You call these people professional with a statement like this with not aching for the actual condition of the pipe under the hole :
“Based on the leak rate of 10 dpm (drops per minute), both the preparer and reviewer of the POD were of the opinion that this leak was the same as previous pin hole leaks identified in service water piping.”On Aug 20 the leak increased to 90 dpm….that is a much more than 900% increase in leakage rate from less than 10 dps…
This below implies there are many secret leaks in the service water system. We have no idea of this trend and the rate of increase over time?
“through wall wormhole based on operating experience on the train B SW strainer bypass line.”
“both the preparer and reviewer of the POD were of the opinion that this leak was the same as previous pin hole leaks identified in service water piping.Right, a simple search in their document system would get you to this “ previous pin hole leak” had developed in a brand new pipe (2011) covered with a special epoxy material. Another leak or thin walling made the replace this pipe. Big alarm bells should have been going off in their heads that something strange was going in a brand new pipe with this kind of leak. This is basic power plant professionalism!
On Aug 28, the leak increased to 25 gpm (gallons per minute).
It takes about 50,000 drops of water to make one gallon of water.My calculation says from 90 dps to 25 gpm…that is a 1.4 million percent increase in leak rate.
These guys are playing technical word games with the NRC…and the NRC is allowing them to be deceptive. There is nothing in the world that destroys the culture of an organization than these kinds of word games. It is the way the educated professional class lies and steals money from the poor and middle class! They play high stakes word game instead of robbing banks with guns!

They don’t change until they pay a serious price or a accident of a similar type scares the pants off all of us. Heads need to roll!

Remember, Seabrook has had a whole host of bad operability determination calls over their service water system in recent years…way more than the good and conservative calls.

If they called this conservatively and legally…Seabrook would have been required to be shutdown within 29 hours of Aug 9. They probably would have had to cut out and repair all the other thin pipe wall areas and all the other leaks. They would have been in a two week to one month shutdown. Who knows what the would have found? That would have cost them between $20 million dollars to $40 million dollars. This big money is forcing these words game.

Fukushima Daiichi was solely about the plants staff and their corporate management inability to tell the difference between their own self generated fiction and the scientific truth.

The NRC says in their inspection report Seabrook didn’t support their “prompt operability determination” (POD)..what ever than meant. I pushed the NRC senior resident inspector concerning this…he said, “Mike, it is gross incompetent of the staff.” Seabrook says in the recent LER, it was overconfidence. You know, we can’t tell fact from fiction.

I think all these highly educated and skilled employee screw ups…their poor procedures, lack of report and the missing questioning attitude…exactly got them what they wanted. The delay contrary to procedures with shutting down for a month, which got them to temporary patch in early September…that got them with the patch into the next year.

Remember, they have no idea why that hole in the new pipe (2011) developed under that patch job!

NRC’s Circular Logic With Pilgrim.

The NRC says Pilgrim's medical examiner did not follow guidelines for examinations, which allowed operators with temporary physical disabilities to work, putting the plant's safety at risk.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station may have violated rules regarding medical examinations and reporting requirements after finding several plant operators may have been unable to perform their jobs in emergency situations due to disabilities, pain, and high blood pressure, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Two things new this week...the tritium leak and security issue.

Pilgrimnuclear plant faulted on security issues

By Christine Legere

January 24, 2014

PLYMOUTH — Federal nuclear regulators found five security-related violations at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station during a routine inspection last month.

Two of those had been spotted by inspectors as long ago as 2012 but the shortcomings had yet to be addressed.

On Thursday, Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan characterized the number of infractions found in this latest inspection as high.

It isn't uncommon for plants to receive multiple "green" or "low security significance" inspection findings, "but five is above the normal average," Sheehan said.

For two of the violations, the NRC issued written notices to Entergy Nuclear Operations, the plant's owner and operator, for failing "to correct long-standing equipment deficiencies important to station security defense ... within a reasonable amount of time," according to the NRC letter.

The deficiencies dated back to November 2012.

The company was issued "noncited violation" notices for two of the others, which require Entergy to correct the problems or face enforcement action.

While federal regulators won't specifically discuss findings related to security, the two were described as related to "human performance."

One was issued because inspectors determined "there should have been tighter security-related controls on work activities," Sheehan said.

Another of the noncited violations was related to decision-making.

"Our approach is the company should always err on the side of conservatism," Sheehan said.

NRC officials said those two shortcomings had been addressed by Entergy by the time inspectors left the site.

The final infraction found at the plant did not rise to the level of either of the two enforcement actions, Sheehan said.

Entergy has 30 days to respond to the NRC's letter.

"If we're not satisfied with the company's response or they fail to make meaningful changes, we could do more enforcement, including civil penalties," Sheehan said.

"Secure and safe operations are of the utmost importance at Pilgrim," Entergy said in a written statement. "At no time was the safety and security of the community or employees ever at risk."

The issues were promptly addressed and others have become part of the plant's corrective action plan "to preclude future occurrences," the statement said.

Just two months ago, Pilgrim owners received three notices for violating federal regulations by letting their employees work more hours than rules allow, operating when both of the plant's meteorological towers were down and failing to meet a federal security requirement, according to a report based on a routine check of the plant by inspectors in October.

Thoso violations were also classified as "low safety significance," although federal officials stressed that all three findings were rated that way because nothing bad happened as a result.

Pulling a NH State "Dilapidated Hinsdale Bridge" on The Murder of Dustin Curtiss?

January 22. 2014 12:10AM

Manchester to hire 5 more officers

By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader

MANCHESTER — The police department will be hiring five additional officers in the coming weeks, a fraction of the number the city's police chief says are needed to deal with rising crime.

Mayor Ted Gatsas announced the plan at Tuesday's meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, following a presentation in which Police Chief David Mara outlined his request for additional officers.
Mara said, based on a recent workload assessment, that he believed the force needed 26 more officers in the patrol division and four more in the street crime unit, which consists of plainclothes officers who deal with quality of life issues.
At a projected cost of $84,000 per officer, for salary and benefits, funding the chief's maximum request would cost approximately $2.4 million.

The presentation marked the first time that Mara made his staffing request explicit since new numbers confirmed that crime has surged over the past year, increasing 24 percent in 2013 over the previous year, led by a 46 percent jump in robberies.
Gatsas and most of the aldermen at Tuesday's meeting were more concerned about how to pay for a smaller number of additional officers immediately than in dealing with Mara's maximum request, which likely could only be addressed through the budget process for the next fiscal year

You think, the state thinks they won't be spending money wisely prosecuting this Hinsdale murder case of a war hero in a low population area? Cherry pick the easy and winable cases...

Hometown prosecutor gets paid, and now awarded, for doing ‘the right thing’

For nearly a decade, Jeffery Strelzin has been the state’s legal point man on some of its most unsettling crimes. As the chief of the Department of Justice’s homicide unit, Strelzin, a senior assistant attorney general, is the first person police officials contact when investigating suspicious deaths. He has prosecuted several high-profile cases, including that of convicted cop killer Michael Addison and of Christopher Gribble and Steven Spader, the young pair found guilty of brutally murdering a Mont Vernon mother in her home in 2009.

It’s a demanding job, made increasingly so in recent years as budgets have contracted. But Strelzin, who is the state’s longest-serving homicide chief, seems to find more pride than stress in the work.

 January 19. 2014 10:10PM

Violent crime in Manchester up in 2013

By MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader

MANCHESTER — Violent crimes reported to police increased by 24 percent in Manchester in 2013 over the previous year, led by a 46 percent jump in robberies.
The 736 reported violent crimes — comprised of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — topped the previous two years, each of which saw 593 such reported crimes, according to Manchester Police Department figures released to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Police Chief David Mara said much of the city's crime is traced to the need for money to buy illegal drugs...
Just saying, bet you an enormous amount of the crime in NH is generated by the heroin and other opiates crisis. So the major crimes unit and the state prosecutors departments are terribly underfunded. Then we got a runaway addiction problem leading to major crimes overwhelming our courts, prosecutors and major crimes, beside the historic issues with the state policing. This is all driven by a penny pitching state ideology of limited state government....like I said; our 1921 route 119 dilapidated bridge is a symbol of the ideology of limited state government and out addiction to our generalized hatred of government. What does these institutions look when they become overwhelmed...

We are just putting this on the backs of our children and grandchildren who are mostly in deep financial trouble as it is. We are building up a generation of lost souls...this is going to be so costly in the future
 

I just think a number of our children see no hope in the future...so why even have a good standard of behavior.

Heroin's hook in NH

By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader

No one sets out to die a heroin junkie.

The highly addictive narcotic is a drug of last resort for addicts who can never be sure of its potency or purity, but either graduated to it after abusing other street drugs or turned to it as a cheap alternative to prescription painkillers they no longer can afford, according to law enforcers.

Its use is on the rise statewide, as seen when heroin for the first time became the top killer of all drug overdoses in 2012. It was responsible for 38 of the 164 drug deaths that year.

The number of people who died from heroin in 2013 already shows a 50 percent increase and could go higher once all pending cases are closed. So far, heroin is responsible for 57 drug deaths in 2013, a year when authorities expect the total deaths will reach 200.

"It's a huge problem," said Dr. Thomas Andrew, the state's chief medical examiner.

Andrew said the number of total unintended drug deaths rose 400 percent from the 53 recorded when he started as medical examiner in 1997.

Serious issue

Speaking from a personal point of view as a physician, Andrew described the situation as a "public health crisis," but isn't sure the "social will" exists to really attack it.

"Are we going to decide as citizens that it is worth going after this problem in an aggressive way, or are we willing to write off these people as not worth the effort?" he asked.

"Are these really acceptable losses to us? ... In the end, every one of these cases is someone's son or daughter or sister or brother.

Originally posted on 1/12/2014 

AG says hands fullas cases pile up

By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader

Jan 11, 2014

Attorney General Joseph Foster says his office needs five to 10 additional attorneys over the next several years. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER COURTESY)

Early last week, state prosecutor James T. Boffetti was heading off to Brentwood where he has been filling in as Rockingham County Attorney since James Reams was stripped of his prosecutorial duties pending a criminal probe.

Then it was back to Concord to resume his normal duties as head of the state's Consumer Protection and Anti-Trust division. Waiting for him was the escalating and potentially life-threatening Fred Fuller Oil & Propane Co. debacle that left hundreds of residents with empty or near empty home heating oil tanks during an arctic blast of sub-zero weather

At about the same time, a 2009 video of three Seabrook police officers slamming a drunken driving defendant into a wall and pepper spraying him while in custody went viral on YouTube, prompting the New Hampshire Attorney General's criminal bureau to reassign investigators from existing criminal cases to launch a public integrity probe of the officers involved.

More staff needed
In a department whose most high-profile unit — homicide — just came off one of its busiest years in recent memory, these and other cases have further strained the office's 58 staff attorneys - a number that barely budged since the early 1980s. It's a point Attorney General Joseph A. Foster has publicly pounced on since taking office last May as reason why he will ask for another five to 10 attorneys over the next several state budget cycles.

"I think we are unusually busy. They (staff) have gone through cycles like that before," Foster explained.
"We work hard and buckle down and get the work done - perhaps at a slower pace than we would like, but they will get the work done, and they will do it right," he added.

Prosecutors cope by reshuffling priorities — a practice they call triage — with the emphasis given to cases involving public safety and meeting deadlines in pending court cases, Foster and Deputy Attorney General Ann Rice explained.

Former Attorney General Michael A. Delaney said this is one of the office's strengths."There are a lot of major, pending investigations right now and I think that office has always done an incredible job of handling some of the most important investigations in the state with limited resources," said Delaney, who served as attorney general for four years before he chose not seek reappointment last spring.

Given the first two weeks in a homicide case are the most critical, they get top priority. No matter what else is going on at the time, two prosecutors immediately are assigned to work with local and state police agencies on each homicide, Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery A. Strelzin said Friday.

"This is definitely one of the busiest years we've had in my time in the office," Strelzin said of the 25 homicides in 2013. Strelzin has been in the office 13 years and heads the homicide bureau. The state averages 19 homicides a year.

Until the case is finally over, the work doesn't go away. A case typically takes one to two years to prosecute so you have a constant backlog of cases. However busy your prior year was, coming into your next year you know you will probably have 20 new (homicides)," he explained.

Added paperwork
In addition, the office must respond to an increasing number of habeas petitions filed by convicted defendants seeking new trials and works on 150 active state and federal appeals a year, he said. They include the capital murder and death penalty appeal of Michael K. Addison which prosecutors have been working on since a Manchester police officer was killed in 2006 and likely will continue another 15 years, Strelzin said.

In addition, the criminal division handles several high-profile cases that have consumed enormous state, local and federal resources. They include that of missing Conway teen Abigail Hernandez, which remains an active and ongoing probe since her disappearance in October. The office also is working with the Hillsborough County Attorney's office in a criminal investigation of how a Manchester man became paralyzed with a broken neck suffered sometime after he entered Elliot Hospital emergency room to his being taken into custody by Manchester police and Hillsborough County Department of Corrections in October.

Prosecutors said it was not possible to give a precise number of total cases the office handles.

The onslaught of new cases since late fall has contributed to the delay in completing the investigation of the officer-involved fatal shooting of a suspected drug dealer in Weare last August, Foster said. Foster previously said he hoped to have the preliminary finding complete by the end of November.

But a Nov. 24 double fatal shooting of two men in Manchester and the Dec. 7 deaths of a Vermont couple on Interstate 89 in Lebanon by a man authorities alleged deliberately caused the collision in a failed suicide attempt diverted staff from the Weare case, he said.

"That's one of the problems. Every time one of these major issues come up, we all get pulled off to work on a new fire," Rice said.

Constant reshuffling

Not only have state prosecutors handling the case been diverted to other homicides, but the state police investigators working the case also were assigned to the newly-breaking homicides, prosecutors said.

Rice said the Weare officer-involved shooting investigation has taken "longer than most of the office-involved shootings that we have been involved in certainly. Without commenting on the substance of the case, I can say it's a complex issue."

Foster would not comment on when he expects the report to be ready.

Former Attorney General Delaney noted New Hampshire is one of the few states in the country that requires each of its law enforcement officers to undergo the same basic core certification training at the state Police Standards and Training Academy before they hit the streets.

"It's excellent training. And that is just the starting point. All of the agencies have their officers involved in regular training above that," Delaney said.

NH State Police Major Crimes Unit

Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 Basically, I said I noted your unit has seen a large increase in cases in recent years...has your budgets kept with your case load. Well, left that on his voice recording machine. Do you think he will give me a call back?
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 Judged: I don't think so unless his unit is really hard up for money. If he is a political guy...he might be afraid of pissing off his bosses... His site is only updated to 2011...don't have the money to update his government site? Lets see, it is Oct 2013?
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 28, 2013 http://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/nhsp/isb/m...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 Right, the NH anti government political zealots would get pissed if a vital government agency declaired they don’t have enough resources. The state police over the years have been known to be severely underfunded...
Infowars dot Com Westfield, MA	Oct 28, 2013 Judged: No mikey, no State needs more 'State police', they all need to return to proper Constitutional county law and sheriffs/deputies as the ONLY law enforcement! It is improper to refer to a cop as 'officer' unless you're actually speaking to an elected sheriff. When the municiple or appointed State 'public safety' quasi-cops go bad, they can't be Unelected. It is a fact that the only truly lawful law enforcers are those elected as sheriffs or at least deputised agents working under one. Still many sheriffs violate people's Constitutional rights daily, even good old Sheriff Arpaio what a Real police officer looks like- https://www.google.com/#q=sheriff+richard+mac... AP Photo: Checkpoint Cops Point Guns at Americans’ Heads Fallujah-style security comes to Sacramento http://www.infowars.com/ap-photo-checkpoint-c... (^this is what pigs look like) Cops With Tasers Have Now Executed Over 500 Americans http://rt.com/usa/500-taser-law-enforcement-5... -- talk about a State having a 'Major Crimes Unit' ppffftttttt The govt. Ships In most of the damn drugs into the U.S. By the Ton and has gotten caught doing that And arming drug lords in Mexico etc.('Fast & Furious') and effectively causing the crime in America which has resulted in the NWO police state control freaks to claim the 'need' for MORE draconian laws and enforcement with More rights being infringed. See how it works sheeple? It's called 'Problem-Reaction-Solution' http://www.youtube.com/results...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 Our neighborhood domestic anti government terrorist...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 All right, do we have a spike in crime in NH? We do. What is the depth of it and the cause. Maybe the police and staties are hobbled and demoralized by local and state budget cuts. We know the courts are and the jails are too much of a financial burden on the towns and state. We know crimes usually increase during economic distress. Do the crooks know they got a green light to do as they please because they know the courts and police are hobbled by budget cutbacks and so called tax stabilization? Are we heading to see much more lawlessness as the police and courts have been crippled by budget issues...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 So I left a message at the major crime unit lieutenant’s voice mail. Is he going to call me saying we got a huge budget problem...we are letting murders and criminals get away with major crimes because we are overwhelmed? Because we can’t do proper investigation...if I disclosed this it would give the prosecutors a tactical advantage in our cases.
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Reply » Oct 28, 2013 Judged: FBI's New England chief worried about budget Posted: 10/28/2013 05:00:26 PM EDT | Updated: about 4 hours ago PORTLAND, Maine (AP)- The FBI's Boston chief has a lot to worry about between terrorism, conventional crime and intelligence gathering. But these days, one of his biggest concerns is his budget. Vincent Lisi, special agent in charge for Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, told reporters in Portland on Monday that one of his biggest challenges is dealing with the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration. He said the cuts amount to $700 million of the national FBI budget this year. He said vacant positions aren't being filled and training has been slashed. He said it could be a few years before any new field agents are hired. Instead of doing "more with less," the FBI is performing threat assessments and prioritizing its most important duties as it becomes accustomed to doing "less with less," Lisi said. "It's doing less with less," he said. "You can't keep doing more with less. Otherwise, you'll end up being a mile wide and an inch deep."
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 29, 2013 Mike Mulligan wrote: So I left a message at the major crime unit lieutenant’s voice mail. Is he going to call me saying we got a huge budget problem...we are letting murders and criminals get away with major crimes because we are overwhelmed? Because we can’t do proper investigation...if I disclosed this it would give the prosecutors a tactical advantage in our cases. "if I disclosed this it would give the prosecutors a tactical disadvantage in our cases." The route 119 bridge disease in the major crimes unit of the NH state police?
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 29, 2013 Judged: “This is extremely important to public safety,” he said.“New Hampshire State Police have been dealing with an increase in calls and operating at reduced staffing levels.” July 22, 2013 NH to add 10 troopers State budget includes $723K for new officers By John Toolejtoole@eagletribune.com More state troopers are coming soon to New Hampshire highways. Early next year, drivers on Interstate 93 should notice an increased presence, as will those on highways in remote parts of the state. State police are actively recruiting for the 10 new positions Gov. Maggie Hassan and the Legislature authorized under the recently passed budget. The state budgeted $723,384 for salary and benefits for the new troopers. The new budget provides for 343 troopers. There were 333 slots before, with 12 current vacancies due to retirements or other departures. The agency also must manage with troopers on leave for military service “This is extremely important to public safety,” he said.“New Hampshire State Police have been dealing with an increase in calls and operating at reduced staffing levels.”
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 29, 2013 Fills 10 of 31 trooper vacancies at the New Hampshire State Police. In addition, the budget hires civilians to conduct Division of Motor Vehicle commercial licensing exams, allowing Safety to put five more troopers on the road.
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 30, 2013 So why didn’t it go to a NH medical examiner... Autopsy results released in Hinsdale shooting Dr. Kimberly Springer of the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner completed the autopsy on Curtiss’ body Oct. 15, two days after he was shot at least three times in a family dispute that turned violent, investigators said. The results were not released until today.
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 30, 2013 Chief Medical Examiner Department of Justice Office of Attorney General Chief Medical Examiner Frequently Asked Questions The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) is responsible for determining the cause and manner of sudden, unexpected or unnatural deaths falling under its jurisdiction (RSA 611-B:11).
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 30, 2013 http://search.nh.gov/doj-search.htm...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 30, 2013 Oh, he died or was taken to a hospital in Ma.
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 30, 2013 http://doj.nh.gov/media-center/press-releases... gunshot wounds of the torso and upper extremities
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 31, 2013 So a spokesman for the major crimes unit just got done talking to me by phone. He says murders are tracking about normal. He seems to say their case load was static...but he wasn't that sure. They got enough money from the legislators to burn...just kidding. He said they have sufficient monies. But he had a proviso...he doesn’t see much budget issue from his view. Excuse me now, I got to change my wet pants. I don't mean this in the negative...he was highly skilled at communicating and talking like you would expect in a important and large organization.
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 31, 2013 He wants me to take to the commissioner or the director...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 31, 2013 I like to talk to a, say a seasoned major crimes unit investigator...who would discuss his agency’s budget vulnerabilities. More the first level boss or management of the investigators... Somebody in the main artery of the information stream....a big picture person. I wouldn’t want detained shit...just generalities. You know, how you guys doing...

 

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Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 31, 2013 They got a pretty wicked and shinny on-scene heavy vehicle....
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 31, 2013 1 It is a state police colonel who I'd be talking with nexxt...
Mike Mulligan Brattleboro, VT	Oct 31, 2013 State employees to vote on contract offering the first raises in 5 years By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Staff Writer CONCORD – Ending a long, sometimes bitter negotiation, a proposed, three-year contract for 7,800 state employees now goes to the rank-and-file for a final vote.
Mike Muligan Brattleboro, VT	Nov 3, 2013 Mike Mulligan wrote: All right, do we have a spike in crime in NH? We do. What is the depth of it and the cause. Maybe the police and staties are hobbled and demoralized by local and state budget cuts. We know the courts are and the jails are too much of a financial burden on the towns and state. We know crimes usually increase during economic distress. Do the crooks know they got a green light to do as they please because they know the courts and police are hobbled by budget cutbacks and so called tax stabilization? Are we heading to see much more lawlessness as the police and courts have been crippled by budget issues... Isn't it cool?
Mike Muligan Brattleboro, VT	Nov 3, 2013 It is a experiment: we got lot a really poor working and economic inviroment and they are yanking away all the social servies because of budget problems... January 01. 2014 7:59PM NH investigators dealt with 25 homicide cases in 2013 ShareThis By DAN TUOHY New Hampshire Union Leader  Manchester police investigate a murder-suicide at the YWCA on Concord Street in August. Authorities said Muni Savyon shot his son, Joshua Savyon, 9, during a supervised visit, then turned the gun on himself. (Mark Bolton/Union Leader File) CONCORD — The New Hampshire attorney general's homicide bureau investigated 25 new cases in 2013, two of which have yet to yield arrests. The state had 19 homicides in 2012 and 25 homicides in 2011, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery A. Strelzin, the chief of the homicide unit. About 36 percent of the cases were related to domestic violence. That is lower than the historical average, over more than 40 years, of around 50 percent. Other points from 2013 files, according to Strelzin, include: • There were three fatal officer-involved incidents. There were two such incidents in 2012, and five officer-involved fatals in 2011. • The state saw four double murders in 2013, which is more than what is usually recorded. • The state is seeing more cases involving defendants making competency claims and insanity defenses. Keene: David Wheelock, 48, of Keene, was shot multiple times and died Dec. 21 in his Keene residence. No arrests made. The state continues to investigate the homicide and ask for anyone with information about the shooting to call police. Manchester: Two men die after a shooting at 331 Lake Ave. in Manchester on Nov. 24. Police said Edgar "Eddie" Hoffens, 22, of Manchester, died at the scene. Charles Cable, 20, of Manchester, died later at the Elliot Hospital. No charges brought to date. Hinsdale: Dustin Curtiss, 26, of Hinsdale, was shot multiple times in the torso and upper extremities Oct. 13 during an apparent family dispute that turned violent. No one was arrested in connection with the incident, which remains under investigation. Hampton: Robert Roderick, 56, died Oct. 3 after an assault in Hampton. Authorities charged Peter Bartoloni, 70, with second-degree murder for allegedly beating his roommate with a sledgehammer. Manchester: Wendy M. Lawrence, 45, of Canterbury, was fatally wounded in an officer-involved shooting in Manchester on Sept. 30. A state trooper pulled her over while driving south on Interstate 89 and confirmed she was a habitual offender with a suspended license. Lawrence drove off, speeding toward Concord, and onto I-93 and into Manchester, where troopers attempted to stop her at an intersection. A trooper fired at the vehicle, hitting Lawrence. She was taken to Elliot Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Attorney General Joseph Foster determined it was a justified use of force. Weare: Alex Cora DeJesus, 35, died from gunshot wounds in an officer-involved shooting in Weare as officers attempted to apprehend him in connection with a drug deal investigation Aug. 14. Manchester: Muni Savyon, 54, of Manchester, shot his 9-year-old son Joshua with a handgun several times during a visitation at the YWCA at 72 Concord St., Manchester on Aug. 11. He then shot and killed himself. Nashua: Two adults are found dead at their home at 17 Middle Dunstable Road in Nashua. Reginal Danboise, 67, killed himself by hanging after stabbing his wife, Mary L. Danboise, 63, to death. Charlestown: Kelly Robarge, 42, of 124 Happy Acres Road, Charlestown, is reported missing and then found dead. James R. Robarge, 43, of Charlestown, is charged with reckless second-degree murder in the death of his wife on June 27. Nashua: William Grant, 83, and his wife, Eleanor Grant, 78, are found dead in their Nashua home on June 17. An autopsy reveals death by stabbing. No arrests are made in the case, but investigators conclude evidence suggested Shawn Burne, 37, who died of an overdose Aug. 22, killed the couple during a robbery. Somersworth: Noah York, a 2-year-old boy from Somersworth, is pronounced dead at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover on June 14. An autopsy reveals death by smothering. Authorities charged Jared Pope, 30, of Somersworth, with manslaughter. Laconia: Zachary March, 27, of 24 McGrath St., in Laconia, is found dead June 10. Authorities charge Kasey Riley, 19, of Laconia, with second-degree murder by strangling. Manchester: Michael Larocque Jr., 24, of Manchester, dies from a gunshot wound at an apartment on Lake Avenue in Manchester. The resident in the apartment said he armed himself after hearing unknown people outside his apartment at 2:43 a.m. Shortly thereafter, the man's apartment door was kicked open and two unknown men rushed inside and charged him. The resident fired his gun several times during the break-in, killing one of the intruders, the man identified as Larocque. The Attorney General's office concludes it is a justified use of force. Belmont: Priscilla Carter, 59, of 20 Sunset Drive in Belmont, and her son, Timothy Carter, 39, of the same address, are found dead from multiple chop wounds and blunt-force injuries on May 24. On July 9, Shawne Carter, 31, of Belmont, is charged in the death of his mother and brother. Manchester: Mark Donnelly, 31, a father of two from Manchester, was killed in a drive-by shooting in the area of Pine and Prospect streets in Manchester on May 18. He died from a single gunshot wound to the chest. The shooting occurred after an argument with a man, witnesses said. No arrests have been made and the case remains under investigation. Manchester: Michelle Hogarty, 46, found dead in her home at 316 Mammoth Road in Manchester on May 1. Her husband, John Hogarty, 55, is charged with first-degree murder in her stabbing death. Walpole: Larry Albert Bohannon, 51, with a last known address of Grafton, died from gunshots to the head and chest March 29 after police officers pursued him in connection with a Vermont armed robbery. The attorney general determined it was a justified use of force. Exeter: Amanda "Amy" Warf, 36, of Hampton, is found dead in an abandoned building in Exeter on March 7. Aaron Desjardins, 36, of 67 Railroad Ave., Epping, is charged with first-degree murder in his ex-wife's death. Sarah Desjardins, 34, of 67 Railroad Ave., Epping, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and hindering apprehension in connection with the case. Littleton: Catherine "Kitty" Houghton, 70, is found murdered in Littleton on Jan. 28. Rodney Hill, 37, of West Danville, Vt., was charged in her murder. Nashua: Judith Rolfe, 66, died Jan. 19 from multiple blunt impact injuries to the head. Duane Rolfe, 65, her brother, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. The Attorney General's office is also prosecuting two counts of second-degree murder against Robert Dellinger, 53, of Sunapee, in the deaths of Amanda Murphy, 24, and Jason Timmons, 29, of 35 Fern St., Wilder, Vt., on Dec. 7. He is accused of knowingly driving his truck across the median on Interstate 89 in Lebanon in an attempt to kill himself and crashing into the couple. Murphy was also eight-months pregnant. The New Hampshire Attorney General's office continued to investigate and prosecute older homicides. On July 14, 2013, there was an arrest in the homicide of Daniel Langlois, 25, a Manchester man who was shot Dec. 27, 2012. Jesus "Scoobie" Fernandez, 27, of Manchester, was charged with second-degree murder. And, in June 2013, the state brought charges against Thomas Milton, 30, and William Edic, 31, in the death of Anthony Renzzulla, 44, who was attacked in state prison in Concord in 2010. Renzzulla died from his injuries on Nov. 26, 2011. New Hampshire Union Leader Staff Reporter Kathryn Marchocki contributed to this report.