FPL nuclear plant canals leaking into Biscayne Bay, study confirms

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BY JENNY STALETOVICH

A radioactive isotope linked to water from power plant cooling canals has been found in high levels in Biscayne Bay, confirming suspicions that Turkey Point’s aging canals are leaking into the nearby national park.

According to a study released Monday by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, water sampling in December and January found tritium levels up to 215 times higher than normal in ocean water. The report doesn’t address risks to the public or marine life but tritium is typically monitored as a “tracer” of nuclear power plant leaks or spills.

The study comes two weeks after a Tallahassee judge ordered the utility and the state to clean up the nuclear plant’s cooling canals after concluding that they had caused a massive underground saltwater plume to migrate west, threatening a wellfield that supplies drinking water to the Florida Keys. The judge also found the state failed to address the pollution by crafting a faulty management plan.

This latest test, critics say, raise new questions about what they’ve long suspected: That canals that began running too hot and salty the summer after FPL overhauled two reactors to produce more power could also be polluting the bay.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article64667452.html#storylink=cpy

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1. This is a benefit to all people kind!

Yep, good for everyone! Drink up!

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2. It's interesting that no one ever discusses the toxic benzopyrans, benzofurans, benzodioxins...

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...routinely killing hundreds of thousands people per year...being only three of the constituents that kill seven million people each year from air pollution...and don't leak, but pour out of dangerous fossil fuel plants.

The fact that people burn oil, gas, and petroleum to generate the power to run computers to print this pathetic garbage is a very, very, very, very, telling reason why the atmosphere is collapsing at the incredible rate being observed in 2016 at Mauna Loa.

"215 times higher than normal" does translate into "harmful." There are tritium labeled RIA kits that are thousands, even tens of thousands "higher than normal."

In fact, everywhere on the planet, back in 1963, at the height of nuclear testing, the entire planet was hundreds of times "normal" and still it seems that the world population continued to grow, while life expectancy increased dramatically.

What's "normal" is that people insist that every damn thing on the planet can kill at will because nuclear energy isn't perfect. Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be vastly superior to everything else, to save lives that otherwise would be lost to air pollution. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, and been has saving lives, it's saved close to 2 million of them as reported, not by some dumb assed reporter who never passed a science course in his life, but by one of the world's premier climate scientists.

Nuclear Energy Saves Lives