MIAMI—A Miami-Dade County study in Biscayne Bay found high levels of a radioactive isotope linked to water from canals at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point power plant.
According to the study released Monday by County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, water sampling in December and January found tritium levels up to 215 times higher than normal in ocean water.
The Miami Herald reports that the study comes two weeks after a Tallahassee judge ordered FPL and the state to clean up the nuclear power plant’s cooling canals.
A cooling canal and the two nuclear reactor containment buildings at the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant are shown, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 in Homestead, Fla. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
