Regulators Cite FP&L For Safety Violations
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Federal regulators have fined Florida Power & Light $70,000 for improperly maintaining hundreds of tons of highly radioactive spent fuel at their Turkey Point 3 power plant near Homestead, in violation of their operating license. The fine concludes a six month investigation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into the degradation of chemicals in the spent fuel pool designed to prevent fission between the thousands of 12-fo