Nuclear Powerplant Leaking Radioactive Isotopes

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Nuclear Powerplant Leaking Radioactive Isotopes Mar 9, 2016 8:45:57 GMT -6 Glencairn, Teye22, and 1 more like this

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Post by Nugget on Mar 9, 2016 8:45:57 GMT -6

March 8, 2016

As Florida Power & Light finalized plans to expand its nuclear reactors at Turkey Point three years ago, critics were aghast. The nuclear plant already stands on environmentally fragile land, and upping the power production would seriously threaten the ecosystem, they argued.

Turns out they may have been right. This morning, the county released the results of a study into whether Turkey Point has been leaking dangerous wastewater into Biscayne Bay. County water monitors found more than 200 times the normal levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope linked to nuclear power production, in the bay water, a finding environmentalists say justifies their concerns.

The study is just the latest blow to FPL, which lost a state court ruling last month when a judge found the utility had failed to prevent hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater from seeping into the bay.

FPL promises to clean up its act by pumping wastewater into a deep aquifer, among other steps.

Prophecies of not having a single drop of water to drink that wasn't poisonous seemed impossible to pathom when I was younger; now, not so much. :eyeroll:

What saddens me the most is that the things being done, like deep water injection wells for toxic chemicals, and leaking radioactivity (Fukishima) won't have any profound visible effects for decades. Are TPTB counting on having a solution before it's to late? I don't think the odds are on humanity's side.

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Nuclear Powerplant Leaking Radioactive Isotopes Mar 9, 2016 12:59:33 GMT -6 Nugget, Glencairn, and 2 more like this

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Post by rickymouse on Mar 9, 2016 12:59:33 GMT -6

When we started making nuclear power plants, the waste of electricity increased. People and businesses increased use of electricity. Mining and processing of radioactive materials is actually hard on the environment. Then we stash away the biproducts for our children or grandchildren to deal with.

This comes under greed. We want everything now and ignore the consequences. It is not limited to nuclear, it is evident in everything.

You know, I am sixty and I am working on my thesis and my resume to the place behind those pearly gates. Although I am not planning on getting there ever, I can see that destroying this Garden of Eden is not the way to go. Look at the rest of the planets in this solar system, this is the Garden of Eden compared to any other one. People can't see that we were never kicked out. Those who profit by destroying this garden want us to think we were so we can line their pocket books with our labors.

The more energy we find the more we waste. The more we spend the more we have to make to be at the same point. Make your needs your desires and stress stays at bay..

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Nuclear Powerplant Leaking Radioactive Isotopes Mar 10, 2016 17:12:33 GMT -6 Nugget, Glencairn, and 2 more like this

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Post by Michigan Swamp Buck on Mar 10, 2016 17:12:33 GMT -6

Humans are too irresponsible to handle nuclear power plants safely. We need to ban them all out right, they're only good for creating radioactive waste, endangering the environment and human lives and making atomic bombs.

Of course coal fired plants are really dirty and will kill us off if they are irresponsible with them too, but at least it won't have lasting effects the likes of the nuclear waste half-life or result in bio-accumulation. Even with smog, acid rain, excess CO2, and forest decline, I'd rather use coal plants over nuclear.

ETA; Why do they always want to poison underground water with their toxic wastes and think is safe to do so?

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Nuclear Powerplant Leaking Radioactive Isotopes Mar 10, 2016 17:51:23 GMT -6 Glencairn, Teye22, and 1 more like this

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Post by Nugget on Mar 10, 2016 17:51:23 GMT -6

I think it would be in humanity's best interest to shift the focus on clean water. If we wait much longer to make it a priority, it may be too late, as this LA Times article shows:

The LA Times reports that "a lethal superbug" has been found in a local sewage facility, and so many Angelenos may be wondering if the apocalypse is finally upon us. The drug-resistant bacteria carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, seems to be finding its way from area hospitals to sewage treatment centers that are not equipped to kill the bacteria before eventually dumping it offshore.

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689,000 to 4 million people are sickened each year while swimming in Southern California, according to a study conducted between 2000 and 2004. Now, that's scary!

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Nuclear Powerplant Leaking Radioactive Isotopes Mar 15, 2016 5:59:08 GMT -6 Nugget, Glencairn, and 1 more like this

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Post by Teye22 on Mar 15, 2016 5:59:08 GMT -6

From here

TEPCO said
Monday that radiation levels in its groundwater observation hole on the east
side of the turbine buildings had reached 310 becquerels per liter for
cesium-134 and 650 becquerels per liter for cesium-137. That marked nearly a
15-fold increase from readings five days earlier, and exceeded Japan’s
provisional emergency standard of 60 becquerels per liter for cesium radiation
levels in drinking water. (Drinking water at 300 becquerels per liter would be
approximately equivalent to one year’s exposure to natural background
radiation, or 10 to 15 chest X-rays, according to the World Health
Organization. And it is far in excess of WHO’s guideline advised maximum level
of radioactivity in drinking water, 10 becquerels per liter.) Readings fell
somewhat on Tuesday. A similar spike and fall preceded TEPCO’s July admission
that it was grappling with leakage of the radioactive water.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

Although not on the same scale,this means that there is now radiation pouring into the Pacific AND the Atlantic....this is disastrous!

I guess we can always get fresh water from the glaciers but then again, "they" would probably find a way to make profit off of them and/or contaminate them!

Man this race is going nowhere fast! When will we learn?

All that radiation could cause more mass die-offs in our oceans and perhaps even mutations in life forms in the longer run....dare I say.....GODZILLA! :shocked:

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