Two million pounds of nuclear waste is at Turkey Point...like having 200 radioactive elephants to hide (or about 13,000 toxic humans). The waste will remain well hidden in dry casks 16 feet high on a 6 acre bed 18 foot high (34 feet high total) if FP&L gets a zoning change. Don't worry, the Herald said they will be planting trees.
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Is this a joke? Exactly what will 54 trees and 486 shrubs do to mitigate two million pounds of radioactive waste in a sensitive wetlands environment? This is a big-time NIMBY from my point of view. Yucca Mountain has it's own NIMBY contingent, maybe we could take lessons from them.
I understand FPL is pushing to leave language open that would mean nuclear waste NOT from Turkey Point could be stored here. Is Biscayne Bay to be the next Yucca Mountain?
It is good the NUKE waste won't be on the move like the Elephants would.
It's Miami and FPL -- what could possibly go wrong?
It's not like they didn't have 30 years to plan for this storage problem. Nuclear energy is a complete disaster in the states. No where to store the waste.
"I understand FPL is pushing to leave language open that would mean nuclear waste NOT from Turkey Point could be stored here. Is Biscayne Bay to be the next Yucca Mountain?"
Why: because the people of Homestead and Florida City are so beaten down, FPL knows they can get anything they want.
It's always that way. They do it, because they can.
Sounds like the people down there could learn a lesson from the people of Tehran.
great.
Now we can have glowing hills along the national park. I wonder if they will glow green? Then FPL can call it green energy.
FPL reps spoke at the East Kendall Community Association... the presentation was complete with dramatic video of trains hitting the canisters and nothing happening. Of course, nothing happened. We were watching an infomercial. Silly Us.
Would you prefer a coal plant? Nuke is greener than any other option. Unless you personally want to provide gap financing for a solar or wind plant, but then you'd probably complain that the windmills create "visual congestion." IJR
IJR - I thought you weren't going to read this blog anymore...what happened?
I hate the idea of storing our waste here, but the reality is that this is being done all over the country. There is no place to put the waste, and that is just the issue - isn't it? I am interested, as the other blogger suggested, to know if it is just waste from these reactors that will be stored here.
Homestead: hospitable prisons, nuclear waste, and foreclosure capital of Florida
Ooops... and at sea level. I'm gonna guess that the nuclear waste is a cost that lasts longer than either the prisons or foreclosures.
FPL doesn't give a sh*t about anything but money. Too bad the PSC is appointed after many years of being elected. Perhaps if the people revolt and demand elected positions again FPL would answer to some authority...like the people! I know, let's ask Ron Book if he'll help us pro bono.
So let me get this straight, we have no where to put the waste, so were storing it in big drums by the power plant. Whats the next logical step from here??? Why, expand the nuclear power plant of course!!!
This is part of the myth of nuclear energy. It seems cheap, but thats because no one takes into account what to do with the thousands of tons of nuclear waste. This stuff isnt going away, so why do we continue to produce more of it? Wind/solar/geothermal don't produce toxic nuclear waste last time i checked...
Better yet - why not ask Ron Book to apply for a FPSC position?
3 words....T. Boone Pickens!
IJR:
Not visual congestion, it is called cluttering the "viewscape".
And trust me, the acreage FPL has out there at turkey point (is it 22,000?) could hold a heck of a number wind and solar based generators. I would take those over nuclear plants.
I still want to know why we aren't using building roof tops to generate power and why all those glass windows in Downtown Miami buildings are not laced with some sort of wiring that would allow them to generate power as the sun hits the glass?
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