Media kept this quiet (Miami: condos, how much, homes)

[obuma]

Miami Area Nuclear Plant In Partial Shutdown After Steam Leak

[tallrick]

Wouldn't it be great if the decaying Turkey Point nuke plant was hit by a hurricane or tsunami and melted down Fukushima style? Instead of investing in the power infrastructure Fed funny money keeps building useless banks, pharmacies, condos and zero lot homes in the boondocks. All of which are almost worthless without affordable, reliable energy.

[angelscorpio]

Pretty worrying..

[Cubanchic]

Well another reason to want to move away from Miami.

[Felix C]

Ailing plant? When I worked there they had one of the best safety records in the country. Well consider the source of the piece.
The NRC report would be the telling one.

The canal system used is for safety of marine wildlife offshore. Primitively designed? Well the plant is from the 1960s and there was a stop on nuclear permits in the USA after you know what.

Bunch of fearmongering.

[straight shooter]

How can one say it is a bunch of fear mongering when accidents have already happened at nuclear power plants. Turkey Point has a good track record but that does not make it immune to accidents or attacks. Nuclear power is too dangerous and carries too many risks. Just look at what happened to Chernobyl and Fukushima, and to a lesser extent, some nuclear power plants in the US. I think Germany has made a great decision by phasing out all nuclear power plants. There are always large risks associated with nuclear power no matter how many precautions are taken.

[Felix C]

Chernobyl was a primitive plant. The meltdown would not have occurred if using the contemporary standards used in the USA.

I am out of the industry when Fukushima happened and so do not know what went wrong there.

Yes there have always been risks since Tumak wanted to see what was on the other side of the mountain.
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[unquiltom]

The reason the media "Kept this quiet" is because it was a routine shutdown due to a leak in the cooling system (ie: non radioactive water) This happens all the time to nuclear plants because the standards that they have to adhere to are much higher than normal fossil plants. It happens so often in Florida, with 3 nuclear plants in service, that the media would quickly grow tired of reporting every shutdown for a cooling leak that occurs during a year.
What no one likes to admit is that nuclear power is still the cheapest power being produced. It's 5 to 6 times cheaper per megawatt than gas. Just ask someone who lives in San Diego how much their electric bill has gone up since the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear plant. They now pay the highest rate per MW of anyone in the country.

[Vector1]

Believe it or not, there are still anti-nuke people from the 60's spouting off about things they have no clue about. Not only do they not even have a clue about the function of the plant, but they remain ignorant because it does not fit with their warped view of the world.

Then again, some in the "environmental movement" have softened their view of nuclear power because it does not emit greenhouse gases. Aside from the waste it produces, many now understand that it is efficient and does not contribute to man made global warming(assuming that is happening). So some of the anti-nuke hippies have a core group of theirs now on the other side of the issue.

As to Turkey Point, I'll bet it was just a routine leak with no danger to the public. The NRC would be all over it otherwise.

[jeffrow1]

Originally Posted by unquiltom

The reason the media "Kept this quiet" is because it was a routine shutdown due to a leak in the cooling system (ie: non radioactive water) This happens all the time to nuclear plants because the standards that they have to adhere to are much higher than normal fossil plants. It happens so often in Florida, with 3 nuclear plants in service, that the media would quickly grow tired of reporting every shutdown for a cooling leak that occurs during a year.
What no one likes to admit is that nuclear power is still the cheapest power being produced. It's 5 to 6 times cheaper per megawatt than gas. Just ask someone who lives in San Diego how much their electric bill has gone up since the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear plant. They now pay the highest rate per MW of anyone in the country.

Our electricity was very high even before the SONGS shutdown. Our rates are going to impacted because of the cost associated with the premature shutdown of this plant. Our per kw cost is high but we tend to have fairly reasonable overall bills due to the mild climate.