Tuesday, December 2, 2014

MIAMI NUCLEAR FACILITY LEAKING, HANFORD ALLOWED TO CONTINUE LEAKS

THE TURKEY POINT NUCLEAR 'POWER PLANT' NEAR MIAMI, FLORIDA HAS BEEN IN TROUBLE ALMOST SINCE IT WAS OPENED.
A STEAM LEAK THERE CAUSED REACTOR 4 SHUTDOWN 2 DAYS AGO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30.
HOW MANY WERE PERHAPS FATALLY CONTAMINATED BY THAT WE WILL NEVER KNOW.

A MEDEIVAL MOAT SYSTEM FACILITY
SEVERAL EXPERTS have warned of the imminent possibility of a Fukushima-style meltdown at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point facility, only 41 miles south of Miami near Homestead; a reactor so primitively designed that it uses a 168-mile network of open air canals to cool it's ancient reactors (built in 1972), reminiscent of a Medieval moat system.

Back in 2011, an online article published at Miami New Times titled, "Five reasons Turkey Point could be the next nuclear disaster," identified the Turkey Point facility as the country's next most likely reactor to undergo a full-scale meltdown; one which would make Miami uninhabitable, virtually overnight. It is an article well worth reading to get up to date on the gravity of the situation there.


A battery of recent reports reveals that the Turkey Point plant is in an ongoing struggle to keep its reactors cool enough to prevent a mandatory shut down; they are still in operation only because they lobbied for special permission to violate water temperature safety thresholds from the previous 100 degree limit up to their new one of 103 degrees:

DID ANYONE TELL NEARBY RESIDENTS?
DOES ANYONE INTEND TO TELL THEM NOW THAT ONE REACTOR HAD TO BE SHUT DOWN?

With increased canal temperatures linked to accumulating salinity and an inadequate water supply within its canal system, climate change, a storm surge from a hurricane or tidal wave associated with an offshore seismic event, a power outage generated by a class X solar flare, or simply sea level rise – any of these could theoretically permanently incapacitate the reactors main and diesel back-up cooling systems, leading to a meltdown. What will follow will be irreversible, devastating and beyond remediation.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WOULD FACE CONTAMINATION.

Even if we assume that the sort of eventuality described above will not take place in our lifetimes, or those of our children and grandchildren ... even then, the Turkey Point facility, like all nuclear facilities around the world, is actively harming countless people within the vicinity due to its routine release of highly carcinogenic radioisotopes.

AND THOSE WHO ARE IN CHARGE, YES, THEY ALLOW IT!
THEY KNOW THE IMMINENT DANGER TO ALL LIFE, BUT THEY ALLOW IT...BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIVE THERE!

IT'S THE SAME WITH THE MOST TOXIC PLACE ON EARTH, THE HANFORD "NUCLEAR RESERVATION" IN WASHINGTON STATE.
THE LEAKS FROM THAT FACILITY HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS, CAUSED COUNTLESS BIRTH DEFECTS, STILL CAUSES CANCERS, POISONED WATER FOR DECADES, RENDERED THE SOIL HAZARDOUS TO HUMAN HEALTH, POLLUTED THE AIR RESIDENTS BREATHE, AND YET IT HAS JUST BEEN GRANTED ANOTHER YEAR TO KEEP LEAKING AT INCREDIBLE RATES!

OUR GOVERNMENT IS INDEED ALLOWING HANFORD TO JUST KEEP LEAKING, JUST KEEP KILLING ALL DOWNWIND, ALL NEAR THAT "WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION"!



A new deal allows a radioactive waste storage tank to continue leaking for more than a year before its contents are pumped out at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation's most polluted nuclear site.
The deal to pump nuclear waste tank AY-102, announced late Monday, is between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Washington State Department of Ecology. Under the deal, pumping of the double-walled tank would not begin until 2016, and it would take a year to complete.
The deal has outraged critics of Hanford, which for decades made plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons.
"Every day this tank leaks creates additional dangers," said Gerry Pollet, executive director of Heart of America Northwest, a long-time Hanford watchdog group. "Federal and state laws require that leaking tanks of any toxic waste must be emptied immediately. The Energy Department should not get special dispensation just because Hanford officials failed to take action over the past three years to have equipment in place to remove the wastes or to plan to build new storage tanks."
Plutonium production created a huge volume of nuclear waste at Hanford, and the site is now engaged in cleaning up the nation's largest collection of nuclear waste. The most dangerous wastes are stored in 177 giant underground tanks. The sprawling site is near Richland in south-central Washington.
Several of the older single-walled tanks at Hanford have leaked. But Tank AY-102 is the only newer double-walled tank believed to be leaking.
THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE! OTHER TANKS WERE, WERE, FOUND TO BE LEAKING. 
BUT THEY WEREN'T CONSIDERED "SERIOUS" LEAKS...AGAIN, BECAUSE THOSE RULING ON THAT DO NOT LIVE NEAR THAT TOXIC WASTELAND!
IF THEY LIVED THERE, THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT, I THINK. 
IF THEY WERE THE ONES BATTLING CANCERS CAUSED BY THAT ENVIRONMENT, THEY MIGHT JUST SCREAM TO SHUT THAT KILLING MACHINE DOWN! 
IF YOU LIVE NEAR TURKEY POINT, HANFORD, OR ANY OTHER NUCLEAR "FACILITY", I MUST ASK WHY?
WHY DON'T YOU MOVE?
AND IF YOU CARE AT ALL ABOUT FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, ALL WHO READ HERE, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE COMBINED VOICES OF MILLIONS SCREAMING TO SHUT SUCH PLACES DOWN WILL BE HEARD, BUT YOU MUST SCREAM LOUDLY AND LONG!  
I'VE WRITTEN ON THIS BEFORE, SO SEE: 

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article2345767.html#storylink=cpy
http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2014/09/most-radioactive-place-on-earth.html

http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/06/americas-mega-fukushima-leaking-again.html

http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2014/02/is-florida-nuclear-disaster-ready-5.html





SOURCES FOR THIS BLOG:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-03-31/news/five-reasons-turkey-point-could-be-the-next-nuclear-disaster/full/

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article2345767.html



1 comment:

  1. I agree with you and live in Miami-Dade county and I can tell you 98% of the people here are oblivious to these dangers and believe that the government is on the ball. I on the other hand am looking to relocate my family. Its not a matter of if its a matter of when.... On another note there is one of the highest concentrations of this nations wealth located just 20-30 miles from the turkey in the areas of Coral Gales, Pinecrest, and Key Biscayne and I am astonished that these people are so careless with their lives and health given that with the amount of wealth they have they apparently are not very smart.

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