Katie the goat on farewell tour

Hartford, Conn. (WTNH) - A goat with an inoperable cancer made her last appearance at the State Capitol on Monday.

She made headlines in 2006 by raising awareness of the deadly hazards of nuclear power. Katie the goat was living near Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford at the time.

Now, Katie is on a farewell tour as she battles an untreatable soft tissue cancer which her caretaker says is medically linked to radiation exposure.  
 
Nancy Burton, the director of CT Coalition Again Millstone, says, "We're about 25 miles downwind of the Indian Point nuclear power station and still her milk is testing very high for radioactivity, most particularly strontium 89, which has a very short half life. And if you can detect in milk, it means that it came from a recent fission event, not far away."

The latest results of Katie's milk samples were delivered to Governor Malloy's office Monday morning. He was not available to meet.        
   
Nancy says she wants the governor to, "Shut these reactors because they are designed, even when they are operating their best, they are designed through their vent systems and their stacks and their radiation towers to release radiation all the time into the environment."
        
The hope is Governor Malloy will take similar action as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who wants to shutdown the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant located close to Connecticut's border.   

Meanwhile, Katie the goat joined by daughter Cindy-lu and granddaughter Dana Blue-eyes,  takes her personal campaign in the coming days onto Millstone and Indian Point.