NRC Industy Lying Politicans

The nuclear industry is attacking the federal regulators in so many ways and politicians like this are nothing but liars.

OPENING STATEMENT

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FY20 BUDGET

ENERGY & WATER APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 - 2:30PM

The Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development will please come to order.

Today’s hearing will review the administration’s fiscal year 2020 budget request for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

This is the last of the Subcommittee's four budget hearings this year. In April, we heard from the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and Bureau of Reclamation about their funding requests. 

Senator Feinstein and I will each have an opening statement.

I will then recognize each Senator for up to five minutes for an opening statement, alternating between the majority and minority, in the order in which they arrived. 

We will then turn to Chairman Kristine Svinicki to present testimony on behalf of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

At the conclusion of Chairman Svinicki’s testimony, I will then recognize Senators for five minutes of questions each, alternating between the majority and minority in the order in which they arrived. 

We run a real risk of losing our best source of carbon-free power just at a time when most Americans are increasingly worried about climate change. Nuclear power must be part of our energy future if we want clean, cheap, and reliable energy that can create good jobs and keep America competitive in a global economy.

Today 98 nuclear reactors provide about 20 percent of electricity in the United States, and 60 percent of all carbon-free electricity in the United States.

But nuclear plants are closing because they cost too much to build and cannot compete with natural gas. 

Two reactors have announced they will retire later this year, and ten more have announced retirements by 2025.

Let’s do a little math here. If we closed those 12 reactors, that would mean a 17 percent decline in carbon-free nuclear power by 2025, which is 10 percent of carbon-free electricity.

The deal here is these are ancient and obsolete plants. They are increasingly being non completive and the future is bleak.

Today, solar power – despite impressive reductions in cost – provides 4 percent and wind provides 20 percent of carbon-free electricity despite billions of dollars in subsidies. 

Nuclear power is much more reliable than solar or wind power. It is available when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.

The bottom line is, we can’t replace nuclear power with just wind and solar. We would have to use natural gas to replace nuclear power, which would increase emissions in our country.

Unfortunately, we do not need to speculate about what happens when a major industrialized country eliminates nuclear power. We have seen what happened in Japan

Well the Japan nuclear industry melt down down three nuclear plants...that is the reason for the high cost of electricity. They had about fifty nuclear plants. Only some 6 nuclear plants are fit to safe and operarting today.

and Germany for different reasons. Major industrialized economies similar to ours lost their emission-free, low-cost, reliable electricity. Prices went up, pollution went up, and manufacturing became less competitive in the global marketplace. And that is where we are headed in the next 10 years if we do not do something. Stakes are high.

In Japan, the cost of generating electricity increased 56 percent after the Fukushima accident in 2011 when Japan went from obtaining 30 percent of its power from nuclear to less than 2 percent.

Before 2011, Germany obtained one quarter of its electricity from nuclear. Now that number is down to 12 percent.  Now Germany has among the highest household electricity rates in the European Union after replacing nuclear power with wind and solar as part of an expensive cap-and-trade policy.

Germany also had to build new coal plants to meet demand, which increased emissions.

In late March, I proposed that the United States should launch a New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy, a five-year project with Ten Grand Challenges that will use American research and technology to put our country and the world firmly on a path toward cleaner, cheaper energy.

These Grand Challenges call for breakthroughs in advanced nuclear reactors, natural gas, carbon capture, better batteries, greener buildings, electric vehicles, cheaper solar, and fusion.

I put advanced reactors first on the list for a reason. To make sure nuclear power has a future in this country, we need to develop advanced reactors that have the potential to be smaller, cost less, produce less waste, and be safer than today’s reactors.

We need to stop talking about advanced reactors and actually build something. Within the next five years, we need to build one or more advanced reactors to demonstrate the capabilities they may bring.

As we review the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s fiscal year 2020 budget request we need to make sure the Commission has the staff and resources it needs to respond to the changing industry.

First, I would like to thank our witnesses for being here today, and also Senator Feinstein, with whom I have the pleasure to work again this year to draft the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. 

NRC Commissioner Burns Resigns Early?

The Russians Have Come Back

Back six months ago, I was getting a lot of traffic from the Russians going back for many years. I wonder what where they are up? I am more popular in Russia than I am in the USA :)

Hinsdale, NH

Two years ago, a Brazilian gang arrived in Massachusetts: Here are some of the robberies, kidnappings authorities say the gang committed

Defective Power Operated Relief Valve At The Vogle Build

Here comes the role out of all the defective new equipment.

Defective power operated relief valve

By letter dated August 10, 2018 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML18222A599), revised October 11, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18284A447), and supplemented February 15, 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19046A172), the Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) amend Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 3 and 4, Combined License (COL) Numbers NPF-91 and NPF-92, respectively.  License Amendment Request (LAR) 18-021 seeks departures from the generic AP1000 Design Control Document (DCD) Tier 1 in the VEGP COL plant-specific DCD (PS-DCD) with corresponding changes to the associated COL Appendix C, and the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) to relocate the power operated relief valve (PORV) branch lines upstream of the main steam safety valves (MSSVs) in the main steam (MS) lines.  In addition to the relocation of the PORV branch lines, the LAR seeks to change the PORV block valves from gate valves to globe valves in the UFSAR.  Specifically, this amendment results in changes to COL Appendix C (plant-specific Tier 1) Figure 2.2.1-1 and Figure 2.2.4-1 (Sheets 1 and 2), and UFSAR Figure 10.3.2-1 (Sheets 1 and 2), UFSAR Figure 3E-1 (Sheets 1 and 2), UFSAR Table 3.9-16, UFSAR Table 6.2.3-1, and UFSAR Table 10.3.3-1.  These changes are sought by SNC to reduce the noise contribution to the main control room (MCR) and improve human factors when the PORVs are in operation.
 

2.0 REGULATORY EVALUATION
 SNC summarized the proposed changes to plant-specific Tier 1 (and COL Appendix C) and the UFSAR related to relocating the PORV branch lines upstream of the MSSV branch connections, and changing the PORV block valves from gate valves to globe valves, as follows:

• COL Appendix C (plant-specific Tier 1) Figure 2.2.1-1 and Figure 2.2.4-1 (Sheets 1 and 2) are revised to move the PORV branch line upstream of the MSSVs. • UFSAR Table 3.9-16, Table 10.3.3-1, Figure 10.3.2-1 (Sheets 1 and 2), and Figure 3E-1 (Sheets 1 and 2) are revised to change the MS line PORV block valves (SGS-PL-V027A/B) from gate valves to globe valves, to relocate the branch lines to the PORV and PORV block valve to upstream of the MSSVs, to resize the line from 6 to 12 inches, and to remove the reducer from downstream of the PORV block valve. • UFSAR Table 6.2.3-1 is revised to change the pipe length from each containment penetration to valves SGS-PL-V027A and SGS-PL-V027B to 26 feet. • Technical Specifications (TS) Bases B 3.7.102 is revised to remove the size of the branch line in which the PORV is installed.
 The staff considered the following regulatory requirements in reviewing the LAR that included the proposed changes:

                                               
 1 While SNC describes the requested exemption as being from Section III.B of 10 CFR Part 52, Appendix D, the entirety of the exemption pertains to proposed departures from Tier 1 information in the PS-DCD.  In the remainder of this evaluation, the NRC will refer to the exemption as an exemption from Tier 1 information to match the language of Section VIII.A.4 of 10 CFR Part 52, Appendix D, which specifically governs the granting of exemptions from Tier 1 information. 2 The staff notes that changes to TS Bases are not required to be reviewed and approved by the staff but are mentioned here for completeness.
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Appendix D, Section VIII.A.4, to 10 CFR Part 52 states that exemptions from Tier 1 information are governed by the requirements in 10 CFR 52.63(b)(1) and 10 CFR 52.98(f).  It also states that the Commission will deny such a request if it finds that the design change will result in a significant decrease in the level of safety otherwise provided by the design.
 Appendix D, Section VIII.B.5.a, allows an applicant or licensee who references this appendix to depart from Tier 2 information, without prior NRC approval, unless the proposed departure involves a change to or departure from Tier 1 information, Tier 2* information, or the TS, or requires a license amendment under paragraphs B.5.b or B.5.c of the section.
 10 CFR 50.55a, “Codes and standards,” incorporates by reference the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPV Code), and ASME Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants, Division 1, OM Code:  Section IST (ASME OM Code), including specific editions, addenda, and codes cases, for the design, inservice inspection, and inservice testing of nuclear power plant components.  As guidance, the NRC endorses ASME Standard QME-1-2007, “Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment Used in Nuclear Power Plants,” in Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.100 (Revision 3), “Seismic Qualification of Electrical and Active Mechanical Equipment and Functional Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment for Nuclear Power Plants.” 
 10 CFR 52.63(b)(1) allows the licensee who references a design certification rule to request NRC approval for an exemption from one or more elements of the certification information.  The Commission may only grant such a request if it determines that the exemption will comply with the requirements of 10 CFR 52.7, which, in turn, points to the requirements listed in 10 CFR 50.12 for specific exemptions.  In addition to the factors listed in 10 CFR 52.7, the Commission shall consider whether the special circumstances outweigh any decrease in safety that may result from the reduction in standardization caused by the exemption.  Therefore, any exemption from the Tier 1 information certified by Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 52 must meet the requirements of 10 CFR 50.12, 52.7, and 52.63(b)(1). 
 10 CFR 52.98(f) requires NRC approval for any modification to, addition to, or deletion from the terms and conditions of a COL.  These activities involve a change to COL Appendix C inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria (ITAAC) information, with corresponding changes to the associated PS-DCD Tier 1 information.  Therefore, NRC approval is required prior to making the plant specific proposed changes in this LAR.
 The specific NRC technical requirements applicable to LAR 18-021 are the general design criteria (GDC) in Appendix A, “General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” to 10 CFR Part 50.  These technical requirements include the following GDC:
 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 1, “Quality standards and records,” requires that structures, systems, and components (SSCs) important to safety shall be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety functions to be performed.  A quality assurance program shall be established and implemented to provide adequate assurance that these SSCs will satisfactorily perform their safety functions.  Appropriate records of the design, fabrication, erection, and testing of SSCs important to safety shall be maintained by or under the control of the nuclear power unit licensee throughout the life of the unit.  
 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 2, “Design Bases for Protection Against Natural Phenomena,” requires that SSCs important to safety shall be designed to withstand the effects
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of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunami, and seiches without loss of capability to perform their safety functions.
 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 4, “Environmental and dynamic effects design bases,” requires that nuclear power plant SSCs important to safety be designed to accommodate the effects of, and be compatible with, environmental conditions associated with normal operation, maintenance, testing, and postulated accidents, including loss-of-coolant accidents.  These SSCs shall be appropriately protected against dynamic effects, including the effects of missiles, pipe whipping and discharging fluids, that may result from equipment failures and from events and conditions outside the nuclear power unit.  However, dynamic effects associated with postulated pipe ruptures in nuclear power units may be excluded from the design basis when analyses reviewed and approved by the Commission demonstrate that the probability of fluid system piping rupture is extremely low under conditions consistent with the design basis for the piping.
 3.0  TECHNICAL EVALUATION
 VEGP Units 3 and 4 COL, Appendix C, Subsection 2.2.4, contains ITAAC for the steam generator system (SGS).  COL Appendix C, Figure 2.2.4-1 shows the SGS piping from the steam generators (SGs) through the auxiliary building and depicts the PORV as located downstream of the MSSVs.  During plant operations, the PORVs are automatically controlled by steam line pressure, and modulate open and exhaust to the atmosphere whenever the steam line pressure exceeds an established setpoint.  When needed for plant cooldown, the PORVs are automatically controlled by steam line pressure with remote manual adjustment of the pressure setpoint from the control room or remote shutdown workstation.  To cool down the plant, the reactor operator manually adjusts the pressure setpoint downward in discrete steps or takes manual control of the valve position.  Each PORV is installed in a branch line off the safety-related portion of the MS line upstream of the main steam isolation valve (MSIV).  The PORV block valves perform the safety-related functions of containment isolation, SG isolation, and SG relief isolation.  The PORV block valves also provide the capability to isolate a leaking or stuck-open PORV.  The PORV block valves are AP1000 Safety Class B, and close automatically on a Low-2 steam line pressure signal generated in the Protection and Safety Monitoring System.  
 To reduce noise due to acoustic resonance, SNC proposes in LAR 18-021 to increase the size of the PORV block valves from 6 inches to 12 inches in diameter.  SNC also proposes to increase the branch line in which each PORV block valve is installed from 6 inches to 12 inches.  These changes will reduce the flow velocity in the PORV branch lines.  In addition, SNC proposes to change the PORV block valve type from a gate valve to a globe valve to mitigate the potential for a Helmholtz or standing wave source developing in the valve body or seat.  The globe valve will be qualified for the same environmental, pressure, and temperature conditions as the current valve type.  Due to layout constraints, SNC proposes to move the location of the branch line for PORV block valves upstream of the MSSV branch connections.
 3.1 TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF THE REQUESTED CHANGES
 The staff conducted a regulatory audit from November 5, 2018, to January 31, 2019, to review applicable documents provided by SNC in its electronic reading room (eRR) in support of the proposed changes described in LAR 18-021.  As part of that audit, the staff conducted telephone conferences with SNC to clarify information in specific documents.  The staff’

Brattleboro Reformer Newsroom

Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper that Shapes the primaries  

The great media disruption comes for the Des Moines Register.

By TIM ALBERTA

April 26, 2019 Continue to article content

Tim Alberta is chief political correspondent at Politico Magazine.

Tony Leys is a newspaperman. He has covered murders. He has worked the copy desk. He has knocked on doors and taken verbal battering. Most reporters evolve to become editors, but Leys, bored behind a desk 20 years ago, did the opposite. After spending much of his career assigning stories—as city editor, state editor, politics editor—he returned to writing them. His beat became health care, and he owned it, reporting with soul-wringing realism on the flaws of the American medical apparatus. He has won numerous awards, including two years ago for reporting on the impact of Medicaid privatization, as told through the eyes of poor, suffering patients, and last year for authoring a stellar package of Sunday print edition stories about mental health.

There will be no such series this year. Not because Leys has lost his job, but because he’s being reassigned—sort of. He’ll continue to cover health-related stories. But for the next 10 months, his priority will be covering presidential politics. Leys is used to this. It happens every four years. Because this is Iowa. Because this is the Des Moines Register.

Since the dawn of the modern nominating process, no single event has done more to winnow the field of aspiring presidents than the Iowa caucuses—and no single publication has done more to capture its characters, narratives and rhythms than the Register. But the scythe of technological change and economic pressure that is killing the news industry, and especially local journalism, is coming for Iowa’s paper of record, too. There are fewer and fewer political gatekeepers like the Register these days: influential publications staffed by reporters who live among the voters they cover, understanding their lifestyles and livelihoods in ways that can’t be mimicked by their peers parachuting in from Washington or New York or Los Angeles.

It’s almost impossible to imagine the first-in-the-nation nominating contest without Iowa’s biggest newspaper. Its editorial endorsements are national news. Its front-page stories, on subjects ranging from politics to agriculture policy, demand attention from every campaign. And its celebrated statewide survey—“The Iowa Poll,” a Register tradition since 1943—is met with nearly as much anticipation and external media hype in the political world as the caucus results themselves. “When I land at DSM,” says Jonathan Martin, national political reporter for the New York Times, “the first thing I do is pick up the Register.”

When Leys was first asked to “pinch-hit” during the 2004 cycle—filling in for political reporters, when asked, to write about Democratic candidates—he was thrilled. Any journalist who comes to Iowa pines to cover the caucuses, and Leys, who had been with the Register since 1988, was finally getting his shot. He felt fortunate whenever called upon, unsure how often the opportunity would present itself. The next time around, however, in 2008, Leys was pulled into political coverage more frequently. Then, in 2012, he became something of a hybrid, devoting nearly as much time to reporting on elections as he did health care. By the 2016 cycle, Leys was a full-time political correspondent, finding time to cover his regular beat when the presidential churn paused or when a major health-related story demanded it.

When Tony Leys, above, was first asked to help with caucus coverage, he was only called on to pinch-hit occasionally. Today, he is one of several reporters at the Des Moines Register who covers a regular non-election beat and moonlights as a political correspondent. | KC McGinnis for Politico Magazine

Today, with the 2020 Democratic caucuses already in full swing—20 declared candidates marauding across the state, and several more soon to join them—Leys can only chuckle at the quaintness of those old days. Fourteen reporters at the Register are currently assigned to Democratic candidates, responsible for tracking their every move and covering their every stop in the state, but only three of them are practiced political journalists. The paper’s business reporter is covering Bernie Sanders; its agriculture reporter is responsible for keeping tabs on not-yet-declared Montana Governor Steve Bullock; its metro reporter is assigned to the long-shot Maryland Congressman John Delaney, who has all but lived in Iowa for the past two years...

Whistleblower Disrespected While Discussing Hinsdale, NH Criminal and Police With Brattlebore Reformer Reportors

This was a mean spirited Brattleboro reporter editor discussing criminal and police matters with me surrounding Hinsdale NH. 

Noah Hoffenberg <nhoffenberg@berkshireeagle.com>

To:Michael Mulligan

Apr 24 at 1:24 PM

Your remote-controlled lie detector is very defective. nh.

Mike Mulligan

Michael Mulligan <steamshovel2002@yahoo.com>

To:Noah Hoffenberg

Apr 24 at 4:38 PM

See, you have utterly no respect for "high felony" crime victims, maybe federal charges, and their emediately family..

Mike Mulligan Banned For Life From Hinsdale, NH Town Facebook-Why?

You know what would be the possible tell of massive corruption, are the selectman and all employees of the town housing valuation accurate...

***There is massive property value assessment or town taxes corruption and fraud for years. The selectmem having been talking bribes or favors for years. The Hinsdale real-estate cabal, the business cartel and the slumlord or ghettoes owners have been parading shiny business suited lawyers into the selectmen office for years. They bring in the slick and thick bussiness pressentation on a grand scale. The towns elites and rich do the same thing.  I always thought the selectman meetings should videoed and recorded for years as a corruption minimization tactic.  So these guys are demanding a decrease in town taxes. It might be legal, but it is corrupt as hell. So the cartels, slumlord owners and business gangs having been corrupting the selectman with trinkets and favors for decades. This is the cause of the of the grossly underfunded police department. Weak government in general facilitates fraud and corruption on a grand scale. The selectmen corruption bleeds into police chief, he has to play the game to keep his job. Insufficient police department funding itself creates corruption as the necessity to deceive the towns people and creases a hostile police environment, enforce secrecy, the police chief has to use corrupt power in order to keep the police officers disciplined not to spill the beans on budget troubles in the police. But the corruption in the selectmen office bleeds directly police chief, as they have to train the police chief to be deceptive and corrupt. This creates a runaway environment where everyone is lying, cheating and being deceptive just to survive.  

Over the years and decades,  this has transferred the burden of funding the town from the rich and elites to the struggling middle class and poor. The poor and middle don't generally participate in this game. They are too busy feeding and housing their families with limited incomes, and worrying about the fucture...      

HInsdale NH Needs Traffic and Secuity Cams

...my proposal to precipitously reduce the crime in Hinsdale. It would probably fund the system with the reduction of crime. We should emediately install 10 or 20 traffic cams at strategic points in Hinsdale. They got these guys on the roof the Hinsdale police department.  I see absolutely no constitutional issues here. The bigger and metallic shinier the unit the better. A fake traffic cam would decline crime also.  This could be a model for all our towns in the area.  

Maybe federal or state funding or help?    

    

• We could crowdsource the output of the cameras to everyone in Hinsdale 

• Police management could better manage their police officer resources. It would keep everyone on their toes.

•  It could be force multiplier or maximizer for our police department.we could have figured out who that murder was and where is was going at a much earlier point 

• We could have figured out who that murder was and where is was going at a much earlier point

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"American Gods"

Weak Hinsdale, NH Police Force and Our Parole System Spewing Our Crime Into Vermont

State's attorney: Murder case highlights gaps in legal system 

KRISTOPHER RADDER - BRATTLEBORO REFORMER
Posted Friday, April 19, 2019 6:36 pm

By Bob Audette, Brattleboro Reformer

Readers: This version of the story is the version that appears in print editions of the Reformer and replaces an older version of the story online. It was updated at 10 a.m. Saturday.

BRATTLEBORO — Windham County State's Attorney Tracy Shriver said the April 11 murder of Neal Bolster and Aaliyah Jacobs highlights problems in communications between states.

"There is not a formal process for checking on defendants who move across state borders unless they are probationers whose cases actually get transferred," said Shriver. "Defendants who are on conditions of release or on probation but move into another state are checked upon informally or by happenstance."

On April 9, two days before Bolster, 29, and Jacobs, 19, were shot and killed in Bolster's Hinsdale, N.H., home, the Windham County State's Attorney's Office sent an email to Bolster's parole officer in New Hampshire.

"I have heard reports that he is consuming illegal drugs and spending time with the victim of record [Aaliyah Jacobs] in his pending Vermont case," wrote State's Attorney Tracy Shriver in an email to Ryan Conover, a probation and parole officer in the Keene, N.H., office of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections. "Do you know anything about these reports?"

"I have heard the same reports," responded Conover. "He is due to check in with me tomorrow [April 10] and I plan to do a drug screen. I attempted to do a home visit last week, but he was not there."

Bolster was under the supervision of the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to one count of first-degree assault and one count of attempted robbery in a drug-related shooting that happened in the parking lot of the Chesterfield Gorge on Route 9 in Chesterfield, N.H., on April 1, 2011.

Charges of attempted murder, falsifying physical evidence and a second count of first-degree assault against Bolster were dropped as part of a plea bargain.

Bolster was sentenced to no less than five and no more than 10 years in state prison for the assault charge and a suspended five- to 10-year stay in prison for the charge of attempted robbery. Though his exact date of release from prison is unknown, according to court documents, Bolster's minimum release date was March 31, 2016.

Bolster did not check in with Conover on April 10, and on April 11, officers with the Hinsdale Police Department went to Bolster's Plain Road home to conduct a welfare check. Instead, they found Bolster and Jacobs both dead from gunshot wounds. On April 12, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office issued a warrant for the arrest of Derrick Shippee, 28, a former Brattleboro man, on two charges of second-degree murder. Later that same day, Shippee was found dead on family property in Vernon. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for Vermont has not yet released Shippee's death certificate.

How New Hampshire investigators identified Shippee as the suspect in the double homicide has not been revealed. The investigation is ongoing.

In his April 9 email response, Conover told Shriver that he had heard from Jacobs' mother that Bolster was in contact with Jacobs, which was a violation of an abuse prevention order issued against him by the state of Vermont in January 2018.

"Yesterday [April 8] Ms. Jacobs called me to tell me that she has not spoken with Bolster since his recent release from the N.H. State Prison, and he has not initiated contact with her," wrote Conover in his email to Shriver. "When I asked her what prompted her call to me, she said that she knows her mother has been calling me and the police. Ms. Jacobs also told me that her mother is crazy and trying to get Bolster in trouble, but the reports are not true. I have also told Bolster that he is to have no contact with Ms. Jacobs and if I find out that he is, he will be going back to prison."

The New Hampshire Department of Corrections declined a request from the Reformer for more information on Bolster's status as a parolee.

"The NHDOC is not responding to questions related to Mr. Bolster as there is an active homicide investigation and we do not want to impede that investigation in any manner," stated Public Information Officer Laura Montenegro, in an email to the Reformer.

Following his release from prison in New Hampshire, Bolster had several run-ins with the law in Vermont, one of which involved Jacobs.

On Jan. 4, 2017, an officer with the Brattleboro Police Department responded to the Vermont Probation and Parole office on Spring Tree Road in Brattleboro for the report of an assault. According to an affidavit filed in Windham Superior Court, Criminal Division, the alleged victim said Bolster had visited her apartment at just past midnight on New Year's Day. The victim claimed Bolster strangled her to the point that she blacked out and when she awoke she discovered she had a black eye. 

"[The victim] stated she fears for her life and is afraid of Bolster," notes the affidavit, which was submitted by former Brattleboro Police Officer Sean Wilson. "She stated 'he is crazy and unpredictable.' [The victim] stated that Bolster threatened 'to kill her' on numerous occasions."

Officers learned that the victim and Bolster had argued and fought on a number of other occasions and that Bolster was not to have any contact with the victim as part of his conditions of release for the Chesterfield incident. The affidavit also states that a juvenile, identified as "A.J." told police that Bolster had been with her "the entire night."

Bolster was charged with one count of first-degree aggravated domestic assault and two counts of domestic assault for the Jan. 1 incident. He was released on $5,000 bail, which was posted by AAA Bailbonds.

A year later, on Jan. 19, 2018, BPD Officer Colby Kerylow responded to a residence on Brattle Street for the report of an assault during which Bolster allegedly choked Jacobs. In documents filed with the court on March 1, 2018, witnesses testified Bolster had forced his way into the residence, "threatening to shoot everyone ..." before choking Jacobs.

One witness told the officer that Bolster had called earlier in the day, accusing Jacobs of "hanging out with different males." However, Jacobs told Kerylow that Bolster had called her repeatedly that day, insisting she go out for breakfast with him. When she refused, Bolster arrived at the home and "threw a fit" when she refused to go with him. "Jacobs stated Bolser never put his hands on her," notes the affidavit.

The affidavit, which was submitted on March 1, 2018, also notes that Conover, Bolster's probation and parole officer in New Hampshire, stated Bolster had been taken into custody on Jan. 24, 2018 for violating his parole and was scheduled for a parole hearing on Feb. 13, 2018.

As a result of the Jan. 19 incident, Bolster was charged with unlawful trespass into an occupied dwelling and disturbing the peace by phone. He was issued an abuse prevention order and told to stay away from Jacobs and four other people. His bail was set at $5,000, concurrent with the bail for the Jan. 1, 2107, incident, which meant he didn't have to post an additional $5,000.

Then, on July 7, 2018, Amy Fletcher, an officer with the BPD, responded to a complaint that Bolster was violating his abuse prevention order by being in contact with Jacobs.

"[H]e stated he wasn't with her," wrote Fletcher, who found them walking together in Brattleboro. "I noted he was standing approximately two feet away from Jacobs at the time of the encounter."

Bolster was arrested and taken into custody but later released.

Meanwhile, on June 12, 2018, the Vermont State Police began an investigation into the overdose death of a Wilmington man, Connor Rusin, 25.

In an affidavit filed with the court, Det. Sgt. Eric Albright with the Vermont State Police wrote that he learned Rusin had obtained heroin containing fentanyl from Bolster and Dalton Kissell, 28, of Westminster, the day of his death.

According to the affidavit filed by Albright, Kissell took heroin from Bolster, which was then sold to Rusin.

"Kissell said that Bolster knows that the heroin he sold to Rusin resulted in his death," wrote Albright. "He said that Bolster didn't care about this and only cares about money."

In November, Bolster, who was again in the custody of the N.H. Department of Corrections, and Kissell were charged in Vermont with sale of a regulated drug with death resulting. Bolster was ordered held on $50,000 bail following the overdose death charge. According to court documents, Advantage Bail Bonds posted a $50,000 bond, which wasn't actually cash, but a promise to pay the $50,000 if Bolster failed to make his court appearances.

Because the N.H. Department of Corrections has declined to comment on Bolster's status, it is unknown when he was released from custody and when he returned to his home in Hinsdale.