Who here lives relatively close to a nuke plant?

[SodoffBush]

Does your community have evacuation plans in case of an attack?

I can't help but feel that, after all the hatred the Bushies have stirred up, taking out America's breadbasket has to be on fundamentalist Muslim minds.

Do you have a contingency plan?

[flowomo]

1. about 30 from TMI.... and they come HERE when it blows....

[RebelYell]

2. 30 miles from David Besse....

...you know. The one that almost blew 2 years ago from corrosion. We have no evac plans. I do have a shitload of potassium iodide. At least that will save my thyroid.

[Cleita]

3. Fifteen miles from the aptly named El Diablo.

The meltdown siren is on the hill behind my house. The good news is that when there are brownouts, we keep our electricity because it's important to have the siren operating. The bad news is that it scares all the animals everytime they test it. So at least my community has a plan of sorts, like a radio station to tune into if the siren goes off, but.........

[Lugnut]

4. About 20 miles

By road it's about 20 miles from here to the nuke plant at Berwick PA. By air it's much shorter. I can see the steam from the cooling towers over the two mountain ranges that seperate me from the place.

[pacalo]

5. I live 10 miles from one

& yes, our civil service department sends out evacuation plans twice a year to all residents in our area. However, evacuation plans are silly when you think about how far-reaching a nuke attack could be. The key is prevention & adequate security -- that's an area with which I'm not familiar.

[lebkuchen]

9. People in Alsace, France have a higher rate of thyroid cancer

and they believe it was due to fallout from Chernobyl.

However, thousands of firemen in the former USSR died overnight when they were sent from the all parts of the country in their rubber raincoats to tackle Chernobyl.

Distance increases life expectancy.

[OneBlueSky]

6. right across the river from Indian Point . . .

the state and local governments sent out a very elaborate evacuation plan a year or two ago . . . it's a rather hefty booklet that covers everything you ever wanted to know, including evacuation routes, assembly areas, etc. . . whether it will do any good if the plant is hit and people start to panic is an open question . . .

[LeftyMom]

7. We closed ours down back in the 80's

I'm sure glad we did! Not for furriner terrarist reasons, but because some homegrown nutcases wanted to blow up a natural gas storage facility near there- imagine if they'd turned thier sights to a noookyolur plant instead? eek!

[bullimiami]

8. Less than 50 miles

To Turkey Point.

Less than 25 at work.

Its not easy to evacuate S Florida there is one direction to go....North.

[neonplaque]

10. 15 miles west of the Perry plant (Perry, Ohio- east of Cleveland)

We have plans and civic defense/emergency sirens which will sound off. Fortunately, living west of the plant, I'm hoping the wind pattern is typical if/when a problem occurs.

[Historic NY]

11. Hum, we have Indian Point in Buchanan NY

Scary since it sits out near the river and the evacuation points are basically choke point since the highway system cannot handle all the escaping traffic. I'm about 15 miles away where in theory they would do decontamination.

[lucabrasi]

12. yep that's a bad spot

NYC is only 50 miles away.

[maveric]

13. 50 miles from San Onofre

The one that looks like two boobs. Remember the "Naked Gun" movie?

[radfringe]

14. about 1/2 hr ride from one in Berwick PA

if it goes :nuke: - we are toast, no time to evacuate, probably be crispy crittered before we even know it blew