Nuclear crocodiles are real in Florida. No, they don't glow in the dark, but they do spend their lives in the canals outside a nuclear power plant. In Homestead, at Florida Power & Light's (FPL ...

HOMESTEAD, Florida (AP) - It's hatchling season for American crocodiles and the imperiled species is thriving outside one South Florida nuclear power plant. Canals for cooling water at Turkey ...

Days after issuing a controversial plan for managing the troubled cooling canal ... the plant twice to power down reactors, have also caught the attention of state lawmakers. South Florida ...

Employees at the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, located around 25 miles south of Miami, spotted a crocodile nest among the plant’s man-made network of cooling canals. Florida Power ...

Florida Power & Light (FPL) said recent rainfall helped improve water quality in and around the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant’s cooling canal system. FPL said actions taken to reduce salinity ...

A nuclear power plant ... across northern Florida, before moving through Georgia and up the coasts of the Carolinas. An exterior view of the Crystal River Nuclear Plant, near Yankeetown on the ...

The Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant in southeastern Florida has been so good to the ... has cottoned to the 168 miles of manmade cooling canals that surround the plant, adopting the system ...

In 1977, Florida Power employees stumbled upon a crocodile nest in the plant's cooling canal system. A monitoring program set up a year later was originally intended to ensure the plant did no ...

It’s a quintessential Tampa Bay image: hundreds of manatees swimming beneath Tampa Electric’s Big Bend plant in Apollo ... in the water of a Florida Power & Light intake canal on Feb. 4 ...