FPL nuclear plant canals leaking into Biscayne Bay

[Marlin]

FPL nuclear plant canals leaking into Biscayne Bay, study confirms

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article64667452.html

[Rerun]

Are they connected to the Bay?

[Marlin]

Are they connected to the Bay?

Worked there a long time ago I don't think so, if I remember right they are 11 miles of closed cycle canals that is one of few homes and nesting areas of the American Crocodile. I am surprised that was not included in the article 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/american-crocodiles-hatch_n_1760354.html

[surf50]

Worked there a long time ago I don't think so

Correct, they're not connected to Biscayne Bay.

But they're separated in several places by only a single width of crushed coral rock. Take a look on satellite view.
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.3585177,-80.3450368,3834m/data=!3m1!1e3

On EP drills we'd ride around back there and simulate taking A/S, because the bugs were so bad you couldn't get out of the truck. Lots of crocs, too.

[GLW]

FPL Turkey Point had two Integrated Inspection Reports within the last 7 years with specific evaluations of their NEI 07-07 compliance with no findings for each of those years, 2010 & 2015, including the CAP for canal leakage initiated in 2010 (2009?),...

So, TP is doing a satisfactory job protecting the general public,...

tritium spikes are not uncommon,...

natural tritium spikes are not uncommon, they often follow cold fronts (Östlund, 1967) like the two fronts which passed through southern Florida in December 2015 & January 2016, which also coincide with the state's sampling campaigns (Dec. 2015 & Jan. 2016), plus there can be massive tritium changes in the wake of hurricanes due to tropopause discontinuity plus very complicated meteorological interactions (Östlund, 1967 again),...

now, that could be considered a bunch of "fire for effect" smokescreen from a nuclear apologist but it is not,...

the well spikes from the nuke plant are magnitudes greater than most background fluctuations from natural mechanisms,...

still, there are a lot of variables, seasonal fluctuations, expected spikes from operations, et al,...

the timing is interesting (e.g. Unit 3 coming out of outage) and I imagine the state boys are clever enough to review the NRC Integrated Inspections and choose their moment for "maximum effect",...

I'm just saying, bureaucrats with agendas are not as rare as unicorns,...

[Rerun]

Yepper my thing is while not connected on the surface it has to be underneath. When I was at Fermi they used to say the ground wasnt connected to Lake Erie then had a statement in the UFSAR that any leakage would migrate to the lake at the rate of .024 feet per year

[Ksheed]

More news on the subject.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/us/nuclear-plant-leak-threatens-drinking-water-wells-in-florida.html?_r=1