Re: TFP update article, E Magazine

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/16/02 7:50:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time, blc+@PITT.EDU writes:



> So far, teeth from children born in Miami-Dade County and other
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> > > southeastern Florida counties have the highest concentrations of
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> > > strontium-90 in the United States, which might be explained by the
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> > > fact that two nuclear reactors there emitted 10.39 trillion picocuries
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> > > of radioactivity into the air between 1970 and 1987, 
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> Turkey Point NP is located about 25 miles SSE of Miami (almost due south of the western boundary of Miami), near Homestead (I am guessing the distance some, but I bicycled to Homestead from South Miami once and that is 30 miles.
 I do not recall when Turkey Point went on line, but in 1975 it was not on
> line.  Moreover, the steady offshore breeze that blows over the southern Florida peninsula, is SE or ESE, and would blow any effluent over the Everglades, not over Miami.  Just because Turkey Point is in Dade County, and Miami is in Dade County, doesn't mean they are close together.  Dade County is pretty big.  Also, the fresh water source for the city of Miami origintes in central Florida (in the Lake Okeechobee region) and the wells that serve Miami are near Opa Locka, in north central Dade County.  So the water flow i!
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> s from Miami toward Turkey Point, and not in the opposite direction.


The other Florida nukes are located many miles north and northwest from Miami and Dade County -- essentially at the other end of Florida.   




Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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