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| From the Wall Street Journal |
According to the Associated Press, the nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in 30 years, "requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away." Emergency-response plans call for only evacuating residents within a 10-mile radius of a nuclear disaster (that takes us to around Homestead, Florida City and Ocean Reef Club). However, last week, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommended that Americans within 50 miles of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant evacuate. As you can see in the graphic 50 miles takes us all the way up the coast to Fort Lauderdale.
"A mandate that local responders always run practice exercises for a radiation release has been eliminated — a move viewed as downright bizarre by some emergency planners."
According to Penn Live:, "Eric Epstein, head of the watchdog group Three Mile Island Alert, called the new rules 'insane.'” I agree, Japan's nuclear disaster is still unfolding (you can read a weekly update) over 14 months later. Last week they had a miswired thermometer and a gate malfunction. Don't we ever learn from mistakes?
4 comments:
It is disgusting that only South Miami and Pinecrest are fighting for the safety of the public. Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay and Homestead are all pro FPL.
I don't know that they are PRO FPL. I think it is more that they don't want to pay for a lawsuit.
Palmetto Bay doesn't like paying for lawsuits? They are just hoping the inevitable nuclear fireball incinerates Palmer Trinity!
It is not like Palmetto Bay won't pay for lawsuits. They love to employ lawyers. It is clear that they view the Palmer Trinity School as a bigger threat than Turkey Point. This is a bit backward. Are you telling us that FPL doesn't have a bigger impact?
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