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Nuclear Energy

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    FPL's $268 Million Early Cost Recovery A Ripoff, Pols Say

    If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You'll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility's Turkey Point pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Florida Nuclear Plant Supervisor Fired (or Not) After Testing Positive for Alcohol

    ​Update: Here's kind of a creepy correction: FPL spokesperson Robbins emailed us to say, "The NRC report states: 'The employee's access to the plant has been terminated.' It does not say that the employee was fired. As to whether or not the employee was fired, that is a personnel matter that we c ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2011

    Letters from the issue of April 7, 2011

    ​Update: Here's kind of a creepy correction: FPL spokesperson Robbins emailed us to say, "The NRC report states: 'The employee's access to the plant has been terminated.' It does not say that the employee was fired. As to whether or not the employee was fired, that is a personnel matter that we c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Fifty-One Percent of Floridians Don't Think Obama Deserves a Second Term

    ​Floridians don't seem to like much of anyone when it comes to politics. A day after releasing dismal approval ratings for controversial Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Quinnipiac has released a new poll showing that a majority of Floridians don't think Democratic President Barack Obama deserves a sec ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2011

    Five reasons Turkey Point could be the next nuclear disaster

    ​Floridians don't seem to like much of anyone when it comes to politics. A day after releasing dismal approval ratings for controversial Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Quinnipiac has released a new poll showing that a majority of Floridians don't think Democratic President Barack Obama deserves a sec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Radiation From Japan Has Arrived: Our Food and Water Are Exposed

    via Flickr BlatantNews.comRadiation in your food and water? Fuggedahboutit!​Due to devastation caused by the Tsunami that recently hit Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is leaking radiation. It might not sound like a big deal to us, except for the fact that said radiation is traveling all t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Turkey Point: Five Reasons Miami's Nuclear Power Plant Is Apocalyptically Unsafe

    ​With Japan on the brink of a devastating meltdown, nuclear power is coming under increased scrutiny around the globe. We talked to Jupiter-based Thomas Saporito, a former instrument control technician and safety whistleblower at nuclear power plants in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. Saporito now wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    FPL Gets An Obama Stroke Job As Company Sets Out to Destroy National Park

    Alex Izaguirre​Could there have been a more ruthless, diabolical, state utility monopolizer to receive $200 million in federal stimulus money than Florida Power & Light? I'm not the only one questioning the federal government's decision either.President Barack Obama announced FPL's stimulus bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    FPL Refuses to Answer Public Concerns over Nuclear Safety at Turkey Point

    Just before midnight last February, the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point quit on the spot and stormed out of the plant, convinced that profit-hungry FPL executives were pushing the nuclear reactor to restart too soon after a shutdown. A little mishap you might have heard of in a Ukranian town ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Frightening Turkey Point Nuclear Shutdown

    Just before midnight last February, the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point quit on the spot and stormed out of the plant, convinced that profit-hungry FPL executives were pushing the nuclear reactor to restart too soon after a shutdown. A little mishap you might have heard of in a Ukranian town ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Chávez cut the lights? Conspiracies Abound.

    Just before midnight last February, the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point quit on the spot and stormed out of the plant, convinced that profit-hungry FPL executives were pushing the nuclear reactor to restart too soon after a shutdown. A little mishap you might have heard of in a Ukranian town ca ... More >>

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Clever Green

    Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM

    Haiti and Cuba

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Return of Three Mile Island?

    Exelon plans to build a new nuclear power plant. Ho-hum.

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Talking Turkey Point Blues

    The feds want to know: Is a proposed airport too close to Turkey Point?

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Place Your Seatbacks in the Upright Position and Prepare for Meltdown

    The busy new Homestead airport will be just five miles from Turkey Point

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    Chomp in the Swamp

    Tracking South Florida's endangered crocodiles is a business best left to experts and maniacs

  • News

    November 28, 1996

    Notes from the Underground

    Impoverished and imperiled, Cuba's independent journalists stubbornly cling to the notion of a free press

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