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

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Continuing problems with critical safety systems at the St. Lucie nuclear power plant has resulted in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission downgrading the site’s status to among the worst run facilities in the nation. The NRC dropped the plant’s designation in its color coded rating system from green – which is given to the best run plants – to yellow, the second lowest designation, asserting that the problems at the plant “have