"...A clear bias to production over safety..." Said: David Hoffman, Former Senior License Holder at Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant.This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the resignation of the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point who felt Management was putting him in a position to do a dangerous start-up of the reactors. You will note he wrote this resignation letter just before midnight - the same day he was trying to clear up the problems related to an automatic shutdown of the 2 reactors (He calls it: "A dual unit trip"). The letter offers a rare glimpse into safety problems. Hit on letter to enlarge it.
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FP&L is pathetic. They are really dumb to have brought this lawsuit so this letter got out.
Or confident that the dead heads in Homestead will just shrug.
There was a state public hearing at the Wolfson Campus about the new additional nukes last year. Homestead's Vice Mayor was there gushing accolades for FPL's plans. The South Miami Mayor was there singing praises, too.
Why would they hold a public hearing 45 miles from the site? How many resident/community people actually knew there was a hearing?
Why were only 2 Homestead area residents there to question the wisdom of the plants and had to be supported by the non-profit "anti" groups?
Why were the all senior FPL staff there, along with the "small" business owners who are in love with their meter readers and for gosh sakes, WHY was the non-profit group ALLIANCE for Aging there supporting the new Nukes? Why wasn't the affected community there?
(Oops,could that be the reason it was a Mid-Day hearing, 45 miles away? With the second public hearing being held in Tallahassee...you can guess who went from South Dade.)
Did the Alliance board of directors know their staff was there supporting a commercial entity that could endanger the very people they serve?
How could the Village of Palmetto Bay politicians ALLOW a high density senior living facility be built and zoned within both the Hurricane storm surge zone as well as the Nuke zone directly up wind of the plant. Duh. (Don't forget some people want to double a school in that zone)
Ok. ALL the politicians are equally liable for allowing high density housing in and around the Nuke emergency zones. We are equally as dumb for buying there.
oh yah, Double DUH. Steve Shiver was around to push the approval through when the FPL license renewal process was happening, I am guessing as Homestead Mayor, and probably was involved in the process for the new ones as CMO.
Of course the current Homestead Council thinks FPL is great, because when the plant under goes overhauls it fills the hotels and restaurants around there with nukeworkers for a bit. The county commission has the hots for FPL too. I wonder why.
FPL's Ramon Ferrer requested that Homestead's vice-mayor speak, sort of, on their behalf.
The recorded transcript also known as the DOWN THERE testimony;
CHAIRMAN CARTER:First of all, Mr. Jon Burgess from the City of Homestead. Mr. Burgess.
MR. BURGESS: Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and Commissioners. Thank you very much for having me here today. My name is Jon Burgess. I'm the Vice Mayor of the City of Homestead. We just came here today to show our support for FP&L and let you know that we have passed a Resolution approximately one month ago DOWN THERE on a unanimous vote to let our good neighbor FP&L move forward, hopefully move forward with their project. They've been a good neighbor to us DOWN THERE. And as the largest municipality that's directly affected by the influx of the building and all going on DOWN THERE, we welcome it and look forward to having it in our, in our backyard. And I won't take up a lot of time here today because I know there's a lot of people and we're on a short time. But if I could enter the Resolution that we passed into the record for the, for the Commission, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN CARTER: Ms. Brubaker.
MS. BRUBAKER: Chairman, it would be my recommendation that we have that marked, identified as our first exhibit for the hearing. It's my recommendation that for all exhibits that are identified and marked by the speakers today that they be numbered. However, it is also my recommendation not to move them into the record at this time in order to afford all parties to this proceeding an opportunity to review all of those documents.
CHAIRMAN CARTER: So this will be marked for identification purposes as Exhibit Number 1.
MS. BRUBAKER: Number 1. (Exhibit 1 marked for identification.)
CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you so kindly. Commissioners, do you have any questions for Mayor Burgess?
MR. BURGESS: I'd just like to say thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN CARTER: Commissioner Argenziano.
COMMISSIONER ARGENZIANO: Just a quick question. I don't know if there are other people here from the City of Homestead, but how do -- how does the population or the citizenry of your city; have you heard from them on your Resolution?
MR. BURGESS: We had a hearing, well, we opened it up at our council meeting for the hearing when we passed the Resolution, and we had nobody with a negative view towards it show up at the council meeting. We did have several people that had positive views. And I think as a whole economically and everything that it could do for us DOWN THERE, I believe the entire community -- or let me not say the entire, but the majority of the community is in favor of it with what they think it can bring us DOWN THERE in the southern end. And the demand that we have, as some of you may not know, we are the largest growing city of that size. So we've got a lot of demand going for power and stuff DOWN THERE. And we've got our own power system, but we also buy from FP&L and they run half of the city. So we're looking forward to having quite a bit more demand DOWN THERE too that we're going to need to satisfy, and we think that this will help us also; not just us, the entire state and nation. So thank you.
The End.
The details were non-existent as to why Homestead wants this, just saying a resolution was passed and economically it would help.
Are their any studies?
What about the water supply questions?
How about construction traffic?
How about the Turkey Point safety and security issues that have been coming to light?
DOWN THERE indeed.
Thank you, Scotty:
It is good to see that I wasn't alone in seeing what I saw. :) (Assuming that this is the same meeting and not another, where Burgess was still gushing)
There was a state public hearing at the Wolfson Campus about the new additional nukes last year. Homestead's Vice Mayor was there gushing accolades for FPL's plans. The South Miami Mayor was there singing praises, too.
The Homestead commission needs to hold a public hearing with FP&L and get answers to the many questions that exist.
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