{"id":18720,"date":"2016-03-10T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18720"},"modified":"2016-03-10T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:30:13","slug":"leaking-beachfront-nuclear-reactor-near-miami-threatening-florida-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18720","title":{"rendered":"Leaking Beachfront Nuclear Reactor Near Miami Threatening Florida Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0Biscayne Bay, FL \u2014<\/i>According to a study released by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Monday, the waters of Biscayne Bay measured 215 times the level of radioactive tritium as is found in normal ocean water.<\/p>\n

Tritium is a radioactive isotope traceable to nuclear plant cooling tower operations. In this case, the\u00a0leak<\/a>appears to be emanating from the aging canals in the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station located nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of several things we were very worried about,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0said South Miami Mayor and biological sciences professor, Philip Stoddard,\u00a0as the\u00a0Miami New Times<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cYou would have to work hard to find a worse place to put a nuclear plant, right between two national parks and subject to hurricanes and storm surge.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n

Biscayne Bay harbors one of the largest coral reefs on the planet and is situated near the Everglades. Hot, salty water from the canals appears to be flowing back into both national parks, which has caused concern among environmentalists and others from the time Turkey Point planned to expand its reactors in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey argued the canals were a closed system, but that\u2019s not how water works in South Florida,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Stoddard remarked.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow much damage is that cooling canal system causing the bay is a question to be answered,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Everglades Law Center Attorney Julie Dick\u00a0told the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/i><\/a>\u00a0prior to reviewing the report.\u00a0\u201cThere are a lot more unknowns than knowns and it just shows how much more attention we need to be paying to that cooling canal system.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Tritium, a hydrogen isotope, is considered a precursor indication of leaks from nuclear plants, as it \u2018travels\u2019 or spreads faster than, and often precedes, other radioactive agents.<\/p>\n

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Leaking Beachfront Nuclear Reactor Near Miami Threatening Florida Everglades (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0Biscayne Bay, FL \u2014According to a study released by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Monday, the waters of Biscayne Bay measured 215 times the level of radioactive tritium as is found in normal ocean water. Tritium is a radioactive isotope traceable to nuclear plant cooling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8803,11494,12869,940,12868,3188,2142,12828],"class_list":["post-18720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antimedia","tag-claire-bernish","tag-everglades","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-nuclear-reactor","tag-radiation","tag-tritium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18721,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions\/18721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}