How close are you to a Nuclear Power Plant??

[RockaFowler]

Personally I live 5 miles from the St Lucie Power Plant in Florida. They send us pamphlets every 6 months about the dangers of Nuclear disasters and what we should do in an emergency. We have a siren located about 500 feet from the house. They go off from time to time as a test. The dogs hate it, but it is what it is there.

The thing is, this plant went offline for about an hour during the Hurricanes of 2004. The 2 hurricanes (Frances and Jeanne) hit 10 miles south of the plant. I can only imagine if it hit directly at the plant. The Plant is located right on A1A on the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing to protect it there. Oh yeah and no-one mentioned this in the press at the time (I work for a TV station I know!).

Do I think it's safe?? Well nothing has happened yet. But hey, this is Florida. Anything could happen. Did I know that we were that close when we moved to our house. Not really. I knew the plant was there, but it didn't really cross my mind that I had to be fearful of the plant. Am I scared now?? You bet. And this plant is almost 30 years old. Were safety concerns greater back then?? Who knows?? But I've been doing more research and hopefully I'll have better answers soon.

God help us all.

[Ian David]

1. I'm right near Vermont Yankee.

But their website is SafeCleanReliable.com , so I'm not worried.

:sarcasm:

Vermont Yankee
Owner: Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC
Reactor Type: Boiling Water Reactor
Reactor Manufacturer: General Electric
Turbine Generator Manufacturer: General Electric
Architect/Engineer: Ebasco
Commercial Operation Date: 11/72
License Expiration Date: 3/21/12
http://www.entergy-nuclear.com/plant_information/vermont_yankee.aspx


It's 116 miles by car. Not sure how far "as the crow flies."

[jtrockville]

6. Isn't Vermont Yankee scheduled to be decommissioned?

FYI, it's a GE Mark I, just like Fukushima.

[Ian David]

21. I think Bernie Sanders is trying to do something about Vermont Yankee. n/t

[FBaggins]

41. Depends on how you define the term.

They haven't begun the process of closing the plant or "scheduled" it. They just received a 20 year extension from the NRC (ironically, right around the time that the Japanese reactors were hit).

But VT has a law that says that their legislature has to vote for it to stay open past about a year from now, and they voted "no" last year.

The plant owner is trying to change their mind while simultaneously preparing to argue that the state doesn't have the power to go against the NRC. The area also doesn't have a particularly good plan to replace that power supply a year from now.

So it's anyone's guess what will actually happen.


I don't doubt that Fukushima will play a role in the debate.

[jtrockville]

70. nadinbrzezinski just posted a topic on Vermont Yankee here (LINK)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x653214

From Amy Goodman's interview (democracynow.org), Governor Peter Shumlin said:

...

The good news is, for Vermont, at least, that the chair of the NRC reaffirmed Vermont’s authority to also determine our own nuclear future, and they don’t intend to stand in the way of that.

...

[FBaggins]

72. But it wouldn't be the NRC that was opposing the state.

It would be the company that owns VT Yankee. Which would claim that the NRC's approval for an additional 20 years carries weight.

If the NRC really wanted to give VT control of the decision (and VT has already spoken), they could have just denied the approval.

[jtrockville]

75. This will surely be an interesting case to follow over the next year.

So it's Entergy vs Vermont. Game on.

[FBaggins]

79. I'm betting it's VT.

I'm not sure how the federal preemption argument is supposed to work. Their best shot was a chance at changing the legislature's mind. the vote was pretty overwhelming, but budgets are tights and turning off the plant is going to cost money. They might have convinced them to change their minds...

...until this week.

[cali]

105. Here's the story on VT Yankee. The Vermont Senate voted against relicensing

last year. A few days ago the NRC granted Entergy, the plant's evil owner, the ability to operate for another 20 years. This sets up a battle royal between the state and the feds and Entergy. Lots of in depth stories here:

http://vtdigger.org/?s=vermont+yankee&submit=Search

[FSogol]

2. 90 miles from this one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Anna_Nuclear_Generating_Station

[Cleita]

3. Fifteen miles, El Diablo, on the Central Coast of California

and it's sitting within whistling distance of two earthquake faults, one of them being the infamous San Andreas fault and practically at the beach if you want to consider tsunami possibilities. If there is any chance of a repeat of Japan, it's here.

[Rabblevox]

112. I literally bled trying to stop Diablo Canyon. Fuck Fuck Fuck the Stupid fucking fucks! /nt

[Kennah]

4. Argonne has maps

http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/united_states.html

[hedgehog]

5. 12.78 miles from 3 of them

Nile Mile 1

Nine Mile 2

Fitzpatrick.

Well, at least there are no tsunamis on Lake Ontario!

You should re-post this as a poll - 0-10 miles, 10-20, etc.

[gauguin57]

7. Site with a list of nuke plants

http://www.nucleartourist.com/us/address.htm

[Rabblevox]

8. Oregon: Trojan decommissioned 5 years ago, but Hanford is still full of toxic horrors...

Actually Oregon is in better shape than most states on this.

Trojan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Hanford:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

[suffragette]

45. There's also Columbia Generating Station

Notice how they avoid the word nuclear in its name?

http://www.energy-northwest.com/generation/cgs/index.php
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/03/bpas_steve_wright_says_the_reg.html

[Tikki]

62. The Mr. and I grew up outside Hanford during years of production...

There are many health coincidences we shared with others who grew up in that region...
Not a place we'd have considered raising our own children.


The Tikkis

[TahitiNut]

118. Yep. I lived in West Richland ... was scientist at DOE Lab.

Mind-boggling waste.

[itsrobert]

9. About 22 downwind air miles along Coast

yikes. San Onfre.

[Snotcicles]

10. I can see Fermi 2 from my roof.nt

[closeupready]

120. That makes you a nuclear physicist.

Or at least the right to play one on TV. :sarcasm:

[CBGLuthier]

11. About 200 miles to the one in Russellville Ark.

But we did have the lovely bastards at Kerr McGee making nuclear fuel in Gore and Crescent, OK. a few years back. Karen Silkwood worked at the latter.

There were attempts to build reactors in Inola, Oklahoma but the Silkwood incident gave us a little more ammo to fight and the plants were not built.

[guitar man]

67. same here

Are you around the Tulsa area?

[CBGLuthier]

114. OKC

Was guesstimating the distance. Looked it up and its more like 264. Been a while since I traveled that way. :-)

[guitar man]

129. My home is in Tulsa

My job is in okc. I have a little travel trailer I keep in a park out by Frontier City that o stay on during the week while I'm working. :)

[Omaha Steve]

12. 30 miles

Fort Calhoun, Ne.

[Burma Jones]

13. I live just Northwest of DC

According to Nukepills.com

60 miles from Calvert Cliffs Maryland
73 miles from Peach Bottom Pennsylvania
74 miles from North Anna Virginia
83 miles from Three Mile Island Pennsylvania
97 miles from Hope Creek & Salem New Jersey
121 miles from Limerick Pennsylvania
132 miles from Surry Virginia
154 miles from Susquehanna Pennsylvania
171 miles from Oyster Creek New Jersey



I used to live about 15 miles from Indian Point in New York.....one of the planes that crashed into the WTC on 9/11 flew directly over that Nuke Plant.....

[FSogol]

28. There is also a decomissioned research reactor on the campus of UMD in College Park.

The nuclear science program was shut down there in the early 1990s.

[Marrah_G]

14. 30-35 from Seabrook NH

and maybe 50ish as the wind blow from Plymouth, MA Pilgrim power plant

[Initech]

15. I'm about 70 mi from San Onofre.

[RebelOne]

16. A few hundred miles.

I'm in the Atlanta, GA, area, and the closest ones are near Savannah and Augusta.

[Kennah]

17. 110 miles from Trojan, 213 miles from Hanford and Columbia

[lumberjack_jeff]

122. It sounds like Bangor, PSNS and Keyport are in your backyard.

Besides, they tore down Trojan many years ago.

[Control-Z]

18. I'm 20 miles from San Onofre n/t

[gauguin57]

19. I'm about 35 miles from both Three Mile Island (huzzah!) and Peach Bottom nuke plants.

Also not too terribly far from the Limerick plant, just north of Philly.

Oy vey. A trifecta of doom.

Still, I'm not close enough to get the free potassium iodide pills they give out annually. You have to be within, I think, 10 miles of any of those plants.

BTW: Peach Bottom and TMI still occasionally have security issues (security personnel -- and sometimes other plant personnel -- found sleeping or playing cards on the job.). TMI had a security breach a few years ago, in which a guy in a truck crashed through the barricade and drove onto the island.

Doesn't give me much peace of mind, frankly. Not only that ... TMI is located right next to Harrisburg International Airport ... with, like, planes taking off and landing and stuff. Whose bright idea was THAT!?

[JimGinPA]

35. I Must Live Fairly Close You...

I'm about the same distance from Three Mile Island but a little further away from Peach Bottom.

[Jersey Devil]

20. Indian Point - approx 30 miles to north

If they ever had to evacuate the area it would be an impossiblity since there are 20 million people live within a 50 mile radius of the Indian Point plant; that includes out onto Long Island, all 5 boroughs of New York City, Western Connecticut, Northeastern New Jersey and, you know, the mid to lower Hudson Valley.

http://bigthink.com/ideas/17443

[onlyadream]

40. Really?

I'm on LI and I thought Indian Head was a lot further north than us. :(

There is no way to evacuate LI, which is why they never opened up Shoreham (much to the dismay of many around here - crazy).

[Jersey Devil]

63. Sure, it's near Peekskill, before West Point

It is much closer than most people around here realize

[defendandprotect]

113. In NJ ... Remember when they were trying to put one out on Long Island --

Fortunately, Gov. Cuomo finally was able to stop it --

but the absolutely reckless among us obviously have full sway to do be as

destructive as possible.

These things are also always built by water --

Kucinich said yesterday they have one on Lake Erie -- a source of drinking water!!

Unbelievable!!

[LibertyLover]

22. About 50 miles from Calvert Cliffs,

which is in Lusby, MD.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. 200 & 100 miles

Depending on which one.

[Deep13]

24. Besse Davis about forty miles away.

About halfway between Cleveland and Toledo.

[Ghost in the Machine]

25. 6 miles from Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

I also lived about 10 miles from Turkey Point Nuclear Plant in Homestead/Florida City, Fla at one time, and worked at that plant. I've been in the bowels of Turkey Point, and inside the containment, with the hatch closed. Tough working conditions there, let me tell you.

[SheilaT]

26. I'm in Santa Fe, NM, so according to a quick search I'm

382 miles as the plane flies from Phoenix, AZ, which seems to be the nearest nuclear plant for me.

[pinto]

27. 12 miles

:hi:

[old mark]

29. There is a circle that is the minimum safe distance from Limerick in PA...

we live about 15 miles inside it...
Guess we need duct tape, huh?

mark

ADDED: I see others are thinking about it, too...Link;
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/03/14/earthquake-risk-at-montco-nuclear-plant-gets-new-scrutiny/

They had the great idea to drop this baby right in the center of many millions of people...What could go wrong?

[RedCloud]

30. Within 93,000,000 miles of a colossal sized one!

[Buzz Clik]

33. Are you afraid?

[Earth_First]

31. 36.2 miles from Ginna Nuclear Power plant

But, we're told that because of a predominately westerly wind, that we would not be affected...

[Buzz Clik]

32. You didn't research where you were living before you moved in.

Have you researched the specs of the plant to see what it is engineered to withstand? What the failsafes entail? How far above sea level it is? The type of containment? Waste holding?

Nuclear energy is worthy of treating with great respect and a certain measure of fear. But, I don't get the mindset of simply being afraid and uninformed when so much information is instantly available.

[Lucinda]

34. 6 within 200 miles...2 of those are apx 70 miles away

Too close for me!

[Greybnk48]

36. I'm 42 miles from Point Beach in Two Rivers, WI

[WinkyDink]

37. Not far from the Limerick, PA., plant. About 80 miles from 3-Mile Island.

[cordelia]

38. Atlanta - less than 150 miles from 2

From Sequoyah outside Chattanooga, TN and Oconee in Seneca SC, 30 miles SW of Greenville.

[ecstatic]

77. There are two facilities in GA

I visited Plant Vogle a few years back as an intern. http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist1.htm#GA

[Thunderstruck]

39. Comanche Peak - 25 miles.

[justabob]

107. 50-60 miles for me I think

Comanche Peak

[truedelphi]

42. We would have been ninety some miles from a plant were it not for hearty

Activists who saw to it that the nuke dreams of the mad men were not fulfilled.

Back in the seventies, the mad ones wanted a nuke plant somewhere between Tomales and Jenner, California, (IIRC,) and it was not only planned to be on the San Andreas fault area, it would have been close enough to the ocean that a tsunami would have impacted it.

[Codeine]

43. Not close enough.

If they started building more it would mean we'd finally stopped bowing to the Luddites and started taking care of our future energy needs.

[Rebubula]

81. Oh no...

...you do not want to live close to one.

They blow up all the time, leak radiation and kill millions of people every year. Plus, a nuclear power plant once promised to marry my sister and left her after he got what he wanted. The bastards.



:evilgrin: :crazy:

[supernova]

44. ~ 50 miles from Shearon Harris

run by Duke/Progress Energy

[fittosurvive]

46. It is an undeniable and indisputable FACT of reality that tragic events

are FAR more likely to occur in the proximity of tectonic fault lines and volcanoes, than nuclear reactors.

Nevertheless, it makes sense to research the potential dangers of inhabiting your locality. On the other hand, beware of the purveyors of pessimistic hysteria, for their judgement is impaired by their inability to overcome their emotions.

[Motown_Johnny]

47. ~ 50 miles from Fermi

scary

[TahitiNut]

115. It's a nearly identical design to Fukushima.

:shrug:

[Skidmore]

48. 25 miles

[1776Forever]

49. Here's a map of the USA that shows where nuclear plants are -

From: CNN.Money Japan's nuclear crisis turns spotlight on U.S. plants

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/13/news/economy/nuclear_power_plants/

......

By the way there is one propossed for Alaska:

Alaska has considered nuclear power options
State energy expert says numerous questions remain to be answered
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031511/sta_799763323.shtml

[old mark]

51. Look at all of them on the eastern seaboard...right where all the people are!

I guess they saved money on transmission lines by putting the plants right up close.

mark

[1776Forever]

52. I had no idea how many were in IL! Wow! I wonder where they take the waste? n/t

[KharmaTrain]

78. Hanford, WA...

...just like all the other plants. Yep. I'm within 75 miles of 3 large nuke sites...Byron, Zion & Briadwood. At one time our rates were lower than the rest of the country and Commonwealthy Edison sold a lot of power to other areas. Now its Excelon and we have some of the highest rates in the country.

[1776Forever]

85. Thanks so much for the reply! Wow WA the pristine State. Wonder how they got that done?

Interesting about the cost of your power going up. That is also very good to know.

[1776Forever]

87. Talking about rate hikes - WA State 8.5 percent rate hike posted today.....

BPA's Steve Wright says the region's nuclear plant is safe; outlines an 8.5 percent rate hike
Published: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 10:42 AM
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/03/bpas_steve_wright_says_the_reg.html

[TahitiNut]

116. Yep. I lived next door to the Hanford site for 5 years.

Nightmarish toxic stews of nuclear waste .. in ENORMOUS quantities. Most people have NO idea.

[old mark]

94. I believe they transport it on a train to a place in Nevada...or at least they plan to do that...

Right near Vegas, baby!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain


mark

[geardaddy]

89. They have three listed in MN

but there are only two.

[Shiver]

93. Likely because the third is decomissioned.

It's there, but it's not active. Wisconsin has three as well, but only two of them are in use right now.

[geardaddy]

97. Thanks.

I forgot to look up the decommissioned ones

[AllyCat]

50. 80 miles from Byron, IL

[1776Forever]

53. I just posted a map that shows where the plants are - IL seems to have a lot of them. Can you tell

me where they take the waste from these? Thanks for your time!

[AllyCat]

106. I will ask my mom who lives in the area. I don't know off the top of my head.

Disturbing, isn't it?

[AlabamaLibrul]

54. ~50 miles from Farley Nuclear Generating Station

They don't send us shit; I had to look it up to even know that there are about 5 of them close enough to ruin my day.

[11 Bravo]

55. I'm about 60 miles north of the North Anna Plant in Central VA.

[Mnemosyne]

56. 89 miles, Perry, Ohio Nuke plant. n/t

[bluedigger]

57. Over 400 miles.

Nothing but good clean coal out here in the Four Corners.:shrug:

[bullwinkle428]

58. 27 miles from the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa.

[Spider Jerusalem]

59. About 35 miles or so from the Oldbury nuclear power station in Gloucestershire.

However, I'm also not in an earthquake zone, nor am I in a zone of volcanic activity. As such I am not especially worried about the risks. Nor should most people in the US be, for that matter; what happened in Japan is not likely to happen in most places. Using the example of Japan's current crisis, brought about by the combination of a massive earthquake and tsunami in a geologically active region, as an argument against nuclear power in parts of the world where neither severe earthquakes nor tsunamis are at all likely, is to create a false equivalence and is quite frankly ignorant fearmongering. It's kind of like saying "you're very likely to get mugged if you walk down the street at night in the Bronx, therefore you shouldn't walk anywhere after dark in Council Bluffs, Iowa either!"

[LynneSin]

60. I survived Three Mile Island 1979

I was in 7th period Algebra when we got the call to go to homeroom. They made us all leave one bus at a time so that the bus could pull up in front of the school and the kids could get loaded. Since I lived in the town closer to TMI (Marysville is about 15 miles away), the bus driver was told to do their best to drop us kids off in front of our houses (this was 1979 - most of us had to walk a bit to get to the bus stop). We had the entire week of school off but we were not allowed to go outside to play, which kinda sucked because I recalled how nice it was that week in March. That summer, when it was time to get the boat out of storage, we continued to do our weekend water-skiing fun in Goldsboro, the town right across the river from TMI. We would ski right past the reactors.

Ironically my step sister (who I didn't know back in 1979) went to school at the school district that is closest to TMI (Middletown). She was told to walk home from school that day, which was a 2 mile walk.

Currently the closest reactors are Hope Creek & Salem right across the river here in Delaware. I probably live closer to those pair then I did TMI.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

61. I grew up about 6 miles from Calvert Cliffs.

I remember one ice storm we had where the tree limbs fell on an electrical line near our house, causing the line to create eerie green sparks in the middle of the night. It woke my mom up, and the first thing that came to her mind was that there had been a nuclear explosion at Calvert Cliffs.


Currently, I'm about 50 miles from Turkey Point in Florida.

[AmandaMae]

64. about 130 miles from the Duane Arnold plant in Iowa.

[kentauros]

65. 90 miles to the STNP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Project

Also, via The Houston Press: Japanese Nuke Disaster Might Stop Texas Expansion

[ceile]

66. I'm smack in the middle of two (but each over 150mi)

Bay City to Austin is 162 miles. Austin to Comanche Point (Ft. Worth) is about 150.

[Liberal_in_LA]

68. San onofre up the coast, maybe 100 miles?

[RobinA]

69. 10 Miles

away from Limerick. Frankly, I have a lot of things I'm more worried about.

[dogday]

71. Bay City Plant is 90 miles SW of me.

:scared:

[csziggy]

73. A little less than 90 miles from the one outside of Dothan Alabama

About 170 to Crystal River, in Florida. Crystal River is on the coast, but right on the "shore". I put it that way since there are large expanses of coastal swamps on that part of the Florida coast so effectively the power plant is in the middle of an immense wetland area, but still very low, not much over sea level. The swamps would buffer any storm surge but not stop a serious water rise.

[HowZanyIsThat]

123. Another Crystal River person...

Wow, a couple of people on here are near Crystal River. I live about thirty miles NW of Crystal River. I used to live in Inglis, which is within the 5 mile zone. We had the sirens tested every Friday at noon...there was one in front of the school in Yankeetown. It was kind of scary for a kid. When I was a little older we started doing evacuation drills. If you turn off of Highway 40 onto a road between Dunnellon and Ocala, there is a hilly spot where you can actually get a good glimpse of the power plant for a couple of minutes as you're driving...and that is about 30 miles away I'd say. It kind of reminds you how close you really are.

[shanti]

74. rancho seco

20 or so miles, i guess....it's "out of operation," but close enough!

[sakabatou]

76. A few hundred miles south (Diablo Canyon)

[Rebubula]

80. Hearty UNREC for this hysteria

OK....there have been only a few accidents at Nuclear plants since they opened. Most were 25 years ago or better.

The only reason that these plants are in danger is due to an 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Very little survives that.

The sky is not falling and you do not need to be fearful. However, it would appear you are ready to move to Alaska and live on the tundra due to your irrational fear.

I am really surprised and the number of uneducated and hysterical posts that are getting traction here - I thought that DU was more intelligent than that.

The 'God help us all' part is why I unrecd. What fucking drama.

[Cleita]

92. One accident is a horror when it comes to nuclear

accidents. Really? I can't believe you would compare this to anything else. One accident is too many, but we the human race have the ability to bring the possibility of accidents to zero by having zero nuclear power plants. We have control over this. We don't have control over earthquakes and tsunamis but we do have control over this.

[Rebubula]

99. Not really my point

My point (and it is very valid in this thread) is that because of an 8.9 earthquake and tsunami - people are FREAKING OUT about other facilities and acting like this is just one domino in the chain.

Sorry - to snuff out this technology in its infancy is myopic.


As for control - we also should have control on rationality and reality. It is not rational to start getting all lathered up about how close you live to a nuke facility based on one accident that occurred in the most extreme condition imaginable.

Coal and hydro power are responsible for more deaths than any other energy source.

[Cleita]

101. I have a facility in an earthquake and tsunami prone

vicinity very close to me. I have been freaking out for ten years, and I'm not alone, in trying to get this power plant closed down. Now we can't do much about earthquakes or tsunamis, but we can do something about the power plant, however, when people like you come along and poo, poo it as hysteria, it only gives fuel to the companies who run these facilities and the politicians who then feel they don't have to do anything. And as far as coal and hydro power being responsible for more deaths up until now, that isn't acceptable either, and it is another thing we can control if people realize that. I guarantee you though that if there is even one nuclear event in our future it will kill more people than all the coal and hydro up until now.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

119. One accident in the energy business is all it takes to be catastrophic.

Last summer, only one oil well out of thousands in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, but caused billions in damage and priceless ecological damage.

[Thegonagle]

82. About 40 miles NW, about 35 to the SE, both on the Mississippi river

I'm in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The upstream one is of the same POS design as the ones melting down (GE BW3 with flawed Mk1 containment). At least there's only one reactor there, instead of four. I'm very concerned that they were recently granted a 20 year operating permit extension, on a design with long known--and unfortunately now proven--design flaws. They had an accident in 2007 that forced an emergency shutdown, when a piece of the machinery weighing several tons fell 8-12 inches due to fatigued old welds. They're also making modifications to increase the plant's output. I'm nervous now that I understand that the containment here is defective in the event hydrogen is produced in the core. The only thing they DO have going for them is a supposedly very safe operating record.

The downstream plant has two Westinghouse reactors. I hope it's a better design than the Mark-1. They're due for their 20-year rubber stamp renewal, too.

[in_cog_ni_to]

83. 20 miles From Exelon's Braidwood Nuclear Plant that has leaked

Tritium Water into the drinking water there for YEARS. They have caused a town full of people to have cancer. Animals are born deformed. Babies are born deformed. Pets that drink the water DIE. They have bought the town by building one hell of a High School so all the residence just go along.....to keep the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ coming. It's truly disgusting what they have done. They also dumped a truck full of oil in a ditch and never told anyone. People started seeing oil in their water. They drank it, cooked with it, bathed in it and gave it to their children to drink before anyone knew what had happened.

My brother and sister-in-law live there. That's why I know what's been going on.

http://www.nukefreetexas.org/downloads/exelons_history_of_leaks.pdf

[ReggieVeggie]

84. ummm...actually I don't know

but I'm not really worried about it

[City of Mills]

86. About a mile from a research reactor, 30 miles or so

From Seabrook NH

[rox63]

100. You must live in the same city as me

And your DU name pretty much confirms that for me.

Hi, Neighbor! :hi:

[City of Mills]

103. And, we joined DU around the same time

You know what they say, great minds... :hi:

[rox63]

104. I'm in the south end of town these days

so a little further from the university reactor. But I grew up fairly close to that part of town.

[Shagbark Hickory]

88. I lived in PSL briefly and remember the tests they'd do over the intercom.

Between that, flooding, hurricanes and the stench of sewage plants in residential areas and the willy nilly spraying of pesticides on everyone, I decided to move. I suggest you do the same. I do miss the friendly people there though. But god help you all with that shit.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

90. Nearest one is about 80 miles west. -nt

[geardaddy]

91. About 50 miles from Prairie Island

which is right next to the Prairie Island Nation reservation.

[Maru Kitteh]

95. I used to live 11 miles away from one and it bothered me not a bit.

I would live there again.

[Raine]

96. About 70 miles from San Onofre

I'm in coastal Los Angeles County

[rox63]

98. I'm about 30 miles from the Seabrook, NH nuke plant

And about 60 miles from the Plymouth, MA plant.

Edit to add: And about 3 miles from a University research reactor.

[greendog]

102. 382 miles.

I think most of our local power comes from hydro.

[petronius]

108. Diablo Canyon, about 12.5 miles (nt)

[rainbow4321]

109. 97 miles from one in Glen Rose, TX

Apparently, they have expansion plans, also.


Get a load of this guy's comment when asked if what is happening in Japan is making him concerned about nuclear safety:


"I don't have no problem with it," said Keith Turner, who added that what happened in Japan was weather-related.


Ahem. Cuz we don't have weather down here in TX..whew, what a relief.

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http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Luminant-Seeks-to-Expand-Glen-Rose-Nuclear-Power-Plant-118035259.html


A Texas energy company said it is moving forward with a proposal for two new reactors at its plant in Glen Rose.

Luminant said it is watching the situation at Japan's nuclear reactors for any safety lessons to be learned

(snip)
"It's a massive part of Glen Rose," waitress Connie Martin said. "I mean, without that, our school system wouldn't be what they are. Our tax base wouldn't be what it is. They help all the businesses in this town."

[GReedDiamond]

110. I'm in the Los Angeles area...

...north of the fabulous, retro-futuristically crazy-ass fault-line-layin, San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station, which is apparently way-cool covered by the ability to withstand a completely unexpected/unlikely Richter 7.0 shaker! Thank-U-Jeezuss!!

San Diego is, naturally, on the southern end of that potential shitplume.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

111. About 10 mins by car.

[Ganja Ninja]

117. 60 to 70 miles away in Crystal River FL. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

121. Don't forget navy bases.

Most have at least a couple floating at the docks.

[Zoeisright]

124. 30 miles from one, 60 miles from another.

And that isn't far enough for me.

[Lugnut]

125. About 10 miles as the crow flies.

PPL's Susquehanna power station is about 20 - 25 miles by car. On a clear day I can see the steam clouds from the cooling towers.

[Incitatus]

126. I have no idea, but too close. nt

[struggle4progress]

127. Maybe 40 km

[Violet_Crumble]

128. I live close to 300km away from the Lucas Heights reactor...

That's nearly 200 miles in language that Americans can understand.