Miami sits at the edge of a storm, and not only because of the hurricanes forming in the Atlantic. The city’s only nuclear power facility, the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, is at the center of a growing debate as environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe warn in interviews with The Latin Times that the aging plant could face catastrophic consequences from the climate crisis.
Florida Light & Power Company (FLP)’s Turkey Point, built in 1970 and located 37.1 miles south of downtown Miami, supplies electricity to millions of Floridians. Its two nuclear reactors rise from the flat marshland of South Dade, standing only steps away from Biscayne Bay and within reach of the Everglades. More than three million people live within an 80-kilometer radius.
“Turkey Point is very vulnerable by many factors, but we cannot forget the most important one: there are more than three million people living within 50 miles of the plant,” warned Rachel Silverstein, executive director of Miami Waterkeeper…