A slow-moving plume of hypersaline, potentially radioactive water from Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) Turkey Point nuclear plant near Homestead may be contaminating the Biscayne Aquifer.
According to a Bloomberg report, this South Florida’s primary source of drinking water.
Located about 20 miles south of Miami, the Turkey Point plant powers nearly a million homes and businesses. Its unique 170-mile cooling canal system was designed to prevent hot water discharge into the ocean. However, this system has created an accumulation of highly concentrated saltwater with traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope. This contaminated water is now seeping through the limestone bedrock and into the underground aquifer…