Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, wants Senate leaders to establish a select committee to review the recent discovery of a radioactive isotope in Biscayne Bay linked to a nuclear power plant in southeast Miami-Dade County.
Flores’ request to Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, follows the March 7 release of a study by Miami-Dade County that indicated tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has leaked from Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point plant’s cooling canals into groundwater and toward Biscayne National Park and the Biscayne aquifer.
