{"id":34734,"date":"2025-03-01T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/ageing-nuclear-plant-in-florida-at-risk-from-climate-crisis-advocates-warn\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:12:55","slug":"ageing-nuclear-plant-in-florida-at-risk-from-climate-crisis-advocates-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/ageing-nuclear-plant-in-florida-at-risk-from-climate-crisis-advocates-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators extended the life of two of the oldest US reactors in Miami. Millions of people in the area are now vulnerable<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1ja835wd\">Download our free app to get trusted reporting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A decision by regulators to extend the life of two of the oldest reactors in the US decades beyond their original permits has elevated the risk of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/nuclearpower\">nuclear<\/a> disaster in heavily populated south <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a>, environmental groups are warning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/miami\">Miami<\/a> Waterkeeper says the ageing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpl.com\/clean-energy\/nuclear\/turkey-point-plant.html\">Turkey Point facility<\/a> in south Miami-Dade county, which was built in 1967 and generates power for a metropolitan area covering about 3 million people, is especially vulnerable to flooding and excessive heat from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate emergency<\/a>, in part because of its low-lying position and coastal exposure to a major hurricane.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/01\/nuclear-power-plants-miami-florida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators extended the life of two of the oldest US reactors in Miami. Millions of people in the area are now vulnerable Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting. A decision by regulators to extend the life of two of the oldest reactors in the &#8230; <a title=\"Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/ageing-nuclear-plant-in-florida-at-risk-from-climate-crisis-advocates-warn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}