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Content Notice: Discourse on #environmentalracism. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 7 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) (2015), an independent government agency,  in “Construction and Operation of Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Units 6 & 7: Draft Environmental Impact Statement Reader’s Guide,” Hispanic residents makeup the ethnic group most affected by Turkey Point, as shown by “[o]ver half of the Census Block Groups in the 50-[mile] region [containing] Hispanic populations of interest,” especially migrant agricultural workers who are “potentially vulnerable to environmental air and noise pollution due to their extended presence outdoors” (p. 15). The data from the USNRC also highlights the limitations of U.S. Census Bureau (2015) data, in which Hispanic populations’ concentration around Turkey Point was not examined. Even though Hispanic migrant workers’ prolonged exposure to aerial Strontium-90 increases their likelihood of developing radiation sickness, FPL is not inclined to remedy Turkey Point’s leak. If Homestead and the surrounding cities had a larger non-Hispanic white population, the plant’s leakage would not only be fixed, the plant would likely not have been built there to begin. End of Part 7. Hashtags: #EPA #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade #biscaynebay #biscayneaquifer End of Hashtags.

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Content Notice: Discourse on #environmentalracism, #radiationpoisoning. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 8 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): FPL proponents claim Turkey Point employs safe practices. Based on the evidence of Turkey Point leaking radioactive waste, Turkey Point negatively impacts the health of Miami-Dade county residents. Until FPL fixes the leak or shuts down the plant, the rates of Strontium-90 sickness will continue to increase in Southeast Florida. Considering the demographic makeup of Homestead, Turkey Point’s pollution affects residents of color and marginalized ethnicities disproportionately. FPL needs to set the precedent for companies across the U.S. to value the lives of residents of color and marginalized ethnicities over profit. End of Part 8. Hashtags: #strontium90 #EPA #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade #biscaynebay #biscayneaquifer End of Hashtags.

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Content Notice: Discourse on #environmentalracism and governmental negligence. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 6 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): Homestead’s residents of color and marginalized ethnicities are wrongfully victimized by FPL...[D]emographic data from the U.S Census Bureau (2010) depicts that Homestead has higher populations of monoracial black residents and multiracial residents than Miami-Dade County and Florida. Even though nonblack monoracial groups of color are not shown to be over-represented, Turkey Point’s pollution is a racial issue, as whites in Homestead makeup almost ten percent less than the population of whites in the U.S. In the larger context, there is a systemic pattern of racial discrimination across the U.S. FPL not adequately fixing Turkey Point’s nuclear waste leak follows the trend of communities of color being treated as subordinate to white communities. Dr. Robert D. Bullard (1994), published in Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, a peer-reviewed journal, reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contains hazardous waste seven percent more often than the safer option of treating the waste, which removes the toxins, in black neighborhoods, compared to treating waste 22 percent more often than containing it in white neighborhoods  (p. 12). Governmental agencies cannot reliably counter environmental racism when they are complicit in discriminating against communities of color. End of Part 6. Hashtags: #EPA #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade #biscaynebay #biscayneaquifer End of Hashtags.

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Content Notice: Discourse on #environmentalracism. References to #radiationpoisoning, #childhoodcancer, and #nuclearwarfare. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 5 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): Moreover, proximity to the plant correlates with Strontium-90 levels, considering “the highest levels of Sr-­90 were found in the six Southeast Florida counties closest to the Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear reactors [both operated by FPL]” (Brown & Sternglass, 2003, para. 2). Young children diagnosed with cancer were likely exposed to Turkey Point’s radiation during their embryonic development, when pregnant residents consumed the contaminated drinking water from Biscayne Bay. Instead of refuting the extent of their role in the problem, FPL officials need to take responsibility for operating at the expense of residents’ health. End of Part 5. Hashtags: #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade #biscaynebay #biscayneaquifer End of Hashtags.

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Content Notice: Discourse on environmental racism and health issues. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 3 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): Thomas F. Armistead (2016), an editor for Engineering News Network, a highly-respected trade magazine for construction, architect, and engineering professionals, in “Canal Leaks Threaten Miami Water,” relays that Judge Bram D.E. Canter’s order states, “Cooling water for four units at Turkey Point, including two nuclear units, has seeped into the Biscayne Aquifer and spread in a lens of hypersaline groundwater that now extends four miles west of the power plant’s property” (p. 9). If the plant is as secure as FPL claims, then cooling water would not be seeping into Biscayne Bay. To a large extent, FPL trivializes the fact that Turkey Point is polluting Miami-Dade County residents’ water supply, electing to deny rather than fix the leak. FPL cares more about being perceived as environmentally considerate than actually being environmentally considerate. End of Part 3. Hashtags: #environmentalracism #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade #biscaynebay #biscayneaquifer End of Hashtags.

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Content Notice: Discourse on environmental racism and health issues. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 2 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): "FPL proponents misleadingly claim Turkey Point employs environmentally-safe practices, professing it has ample safety measures in place. The official website for FPL (2016), under “Frequently Asked Questions,” proclaims, “Our plant workers are thoroughly trained and are experts in their fields…[O]ur nuclear units are designed to use automatic safety systems and multiple safety barriers as part of our ‘safety first’ policy” (para. 5). FPL prides itself in qualified employees and safety protocols for the purpose of maintaining positive public perception and appeasing environmentally-conscious customers, who may be contemplating switching to different energy provider. To avoid economic losses, FPL is likely doing damage control after the recent news of Turkey Point’s leaks. Additionally, groups independent of FPL believe FPL has environmentally-cautious measures. Teresa Hansen (2008), who has practical experience in nuclear power plant operation, writes, “The [Turkey Point] plant contains next-generation environmentally friendly equipment designed to meet all health-based air emission permit requirements” (p. 26). FPL making attempts to reduce their air emissions [superficially] indicates an improvement in their environmental policy and some environmental consideration. However, evidence Turkey Point is leaking waste takes precedence over FPL and its proponents’ claims of safety." End of Part 2. #environmentalracism #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade

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Content Notice: Discourse on environmental racism and health issues. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 1 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon: "Environmental racism is a social institution in which hazardous materials are extracted, produced, and/or disposed of in or near communities of color. Frequently, the safety of residents of color are treated as less important than business profits. Dr. Revathi I. Hines (2016), political science professor at Southern University and A&M College, an hxtorically black college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, cites a study by John McQuaid that found black residents in Louisiana are 'twenty percent more likely to live within four miles of an industrial site that releases toxins, forty-one percent more likely to live within two miles, and fifty percent more likely than [whites] to live within one mile of a polluting facility' (p. 198). Exemplifying the environmental racism Dr. Hines described, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) built the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station in Homestead, a city highly populated by residents of color. Although FPL proponents claim Turkey Point employs safe practices, considering there is evidence of Turkey Point leaking radioactive waste, Turkey Point negatively impacts the health of Miami-Dade County residents, disproportionately harming Homestead’s residents of color and marginalized ethnicities." End of Part 1. #environmentalracism #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade