New Nuke for south Levy County

The Florida Public Service Commission recently approved a 3,000 acre  site in Levy County for a new nuclear power plant to be built by Progress Energy PGN - http://marketwatch.com/quotes/pgn - of North Carolina.
 
The site is  located in the water abundant springshed of Cedar Hammock, west of Rainbow Springs and east of Big Spring, seven miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
 
Progress Energy will initially spend $3 billion for the first 1,100-megawatt nuclear power single reactor. They plan two reactors assuming a half million people will
move into the area.
 
Progress just got one step closer. July 10, 2007, Progress chose Westinghouse Electric Co.`s AP1000 reactor technology.  Westinghouse Electric, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is part of Japan`s Toshiba Corp.
 
Progress plans on filing a need case with the Florida Public Service Commission in early 2008.
 
Following that approval, Progress will file for a site permit from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
 
Progress plans to fire up the nuke by  2016. The company shall store nuclear waste on site as there is no approved storage elsewhere.
 
The nuclear plant will require over a billion gallons of cooling water a day. 
 
Water temperatures can be expected to  rise up to 96 degrees and above in the Gulf of Mexico beyond the cooling discharge pipes.
 
This temperature change could threaten the 200 clam farms and one of the biggest clam-producing areas in the United States.

Hundreds of uranium mines out west were abandoned after nuclear accidents after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster ) and  have never been cleaned up. Water is unsafe. Lung diseases and bad health have plagued Navajo communities in the mining areas for decades.
 
Proposed new uranium solution mining threatens the only source of drinking water for 10,000 to 15,000 people living in northwestern New Mexico.
 
The proposed mines are too risky to the health and environment of the Navajo people.
The Dine Natural Resources Protection Act (DNRPA) of 2005 http://www.sric.org/uranium/DNRPA.pdf was passed by the Navajo Nation Council. The act states, "No person shall engage in uranium mining and processing on any sites within Navajo Indian Country."
 
The law is based on the Fundamental Laws of the Diné that find "certain substances in the Earth (doo nal yee dah) that are harmful to the people should not be disturbed, and that the people now know that uranium is one such substance, and therefore, that its extraction should be avoided as traditional practice and prohibited by Navajo law.`
 
You may oppose  this nuclear reactor by contacting the chair of the Public Service Commission.
 
Contact Information
Phone: (850) 413-6044
chairman@psc.state.fl.us

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