Year

1967-04-21

Video Details

13:17; color; sound, V-240 CA291

Description

This film follows the Florida Power and Light Company's conversion of Turkey Point from "a barren wasteland of mangroves and mud" into a beautiful wildlife sanctuary and recreation center complete with a power plant and two nuclear reactors. It shows the construction of the power plant, its reactor, the Boy and Girls Scout camps using wood displaced by Hurricane Betsy, Boy and Girl Scouts enjoying the park, and footage of US Air Force Water Survival training exercises. Produced by the Florida Department of Natural Resources.

Contributors

Florida Department of Natural Resources

Corporate Subject

Florida Power and Light Company
United States Air Force Water Survival

Geographic Subject

Homestead

Subject

Infrastructure
Nuclear power plants
Promotional films
Recreation
Wildlife