FPL Wins Battle to Store Radioactive Waste Under Miami's Drinking Water Aquifer

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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fpl-wins-battle-to-store-radioactive-waste-under-miamis-drinking-water-aquifer-9059210

South Florida sits atop two gigantic underground stores of water: the Biscayne and Floridan Aquifers. Miamians get most of their drinking water from the upper Biscayne Aquifer, while the government has used the lower portion of the Floridian to dump waste and untreated sewage — despite the fact that multiple studies have warned that waste could one day seep into the drinking water.

So environmentalists are concerned that Florida Power & Light now wants to dump full-on radioactive waste into the that lower water table, called the Boulder Zone. A small group of activists called Citizens Allied for Safe Energy (CASE) tried to stop FPL's plan, but their legal petition was shot down this past Friday.

According to NRC documents, CASE's petition was dismissed for being filed "inexcusably late" in FPL's application process.

"This was thrown out on procedural grounds," says CASE's president, Barry J. White. "The science is still there."

[Vinca]

1. It's not bad enough that human waste is dumped in the aquifer?????

[voteearlyvoteoften]

2. WTF!

Sorry for yelling Sunday morning.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. How is it that no environmental organization has taken lead in countering FPL's overreach?

Why hasn't the newspapers done a better job of covering this? I live in Florida and this is the first I have heard of this.

[HAB911]

4. You do know the other things?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10454956

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Jaysus! This is insane!

I glanced at my local paper the other day. All happy news, like nothing really important was happening. Why aren't they posting the real news of Florida?

[retrowire]

5. NICE

THAT CANT GO WRONG