Report: Florida No. 3 in nuclear waste

[seemslikeadream]

The Environmental Working Group, a Washington watchdog organization, released a report saying that Florida ranks No. 3 in the nation in the amount of its nuclear waste -- and more than 1,000 tons of waste will be added over the next 20 years, because of the renewal of the licenses of Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear power plants.

Mike Casey of EWG said, 'People ought to be concerned because the industry and the Department of Energy lied two years ago when they said, `Get rid of the waste and consolidate the waste,' '' at Yucca Mountain, in Nevada.

Because of many complications, nuclear material from utilities has yet to be moved to the site, and it is unclear when the process will start.

FPL says the public has no reason to be concerned. ''There is no safety issue connected with any of this.'' said Carl Bible, an FPL nuclear engineering manager.

The utility has contributed $514 million to the federal nuclear waste fund, and it hopes eventually to move the waste to Yucca Mountain, Bible said. In the meantime, the material is being stored near the nuclear generators in spent-fuel pools. If the pools fill up, FPL believes it can safely store the waste in dry canisters, which some utilities have been using for years without incident.

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[CO Liberal]

1. And It Increases Every Time....

...Rush Limbaugh takes a crap.

:-)

[goforit]

2. And those Bushies pat their own backs for being environmentalists.

[skylarmae]

3. Florida, Florida, Florida - I'm sick of Florida, and Texas

get floods and hurricanes and government money for repairs and on and on and on and on. We get Enron and more of the Bushes in return.

WTF???

[ClintonTyree]

4. That could be a huge problem for Florida....................

Florida's aquifers are very near the surface. They're also interconnected in a way that if there was just ONE accident, the entire water supply of Florida could be a radioactive soup.
My decision to leave that state in June keeps looking like a better decision every day.