How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

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Enter you zip code and find out...

If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.

http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html

...the nearest ones to me are 402, 462, 607, 733, and 743 miles away.

 

[warrior queen]

I'm pretty sure we have one plant here in Australia somewhere

 

[Jaystorme]

About 50 miles.

 

[koalabear]

143 mi
150 mi
159 mi
162 mi
173 mi

 

[TN_Vixen]

Ha! Oak ridge is 10 minutes away from my house.

 

[Peregrinator]

Feels a bit like fear-mongering propaganda to me, but


If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.



Closest PlantsDistance

Vermont Yankee58 mi
Seabrook99 mi
Pilgrim 1153 mi
Millstone 2, 3161 mi
Indian Point 2, 3178 mi



Safe by 8 miles. And it's downstream on the river, so it won't affect my water, which comes out of the Green Mountains anyway.

 

[Jaystorme]

Ha! Oak ridge is 10 minutes away from my house.

There's nothing dangerous there, they promise.

 

[Ellafun]

Wow, I knew about two of them, but it turns out that there are three of them within 30 miles of me. Surprise! And yeah, nothin' dangerous there. I believe everything they say.

*watches skin peeling off.....*

 

[wideeyedone]

the closest to me is 73 miles away

 

[MNGuy]

29 miles to the south east, and 47 miles to the northwest.

 

[thør]

Ha! Oak ridge is 10 minutes away from my house.

Is the HFIR still running?

 

[boredVAwife]

Catawba (2) - 12 miles
McGuire (2) - 18 miles
Summer - 64 miles
Robinson (2) - 68 miles
Shearon Harris - 114 miles

wow knew there were two fairly close but didn't know there were 5.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

But you proberly live nextdoor to Hannibal Lecter. Or worse.

 

[Ishmael]

Ha! Oak ridge is 10 minutes away from my house.

Y-10 is government run and perfectly safe.

Ishmael

 

[koalabear]

Feels a bit like fear-mongering propaganda to me, but


If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.



Closest PlantsDistance

Vermont Yankee58 mi
Seabrook99 mi
Pilgrim 1153 mi
Millstone 2, 3161 mi
Indian Point 2, 3178 mi



Safe by 8 miles. And it's downstream on the river, so it won't affect my water, which comes out of the Green Mountains anyway.

I piss in the Green Mountains every time I go through them.

 

[Ishmael]

375 miles. Dammit.

Ishmael

 

[Saint Peter]

375 miles. Dammit.

Ishmael

How far away is the nearest nuclear waste storage facility?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I worked on two of them.


The one I lived close to in KANSAS, and the one I live less close to in Missourah...

I am not worried.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Will Obama put the kibosh on the two new permits the way he did Keystone this close to an important election?

 

[Saint Peter]

I hope I can believe not.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I hope I can believe not.

Is that a transformative change?

 

[Saint Peter]

The change is how many doodads we "need" to plug into The Grid everyday.

Nuke, coal, or what fucking ever, we are going to need more generation in the future.

 

[Byron In Exile]

About 120 miles away.

There are only two nuclear power plants in California.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Solar panels not cutting it?

I've got a lot of my doodads off the grid now...



Inflation has come to electricity.

When I was asked earlier about, uh, the issue of coal. Uhhh, y'know, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket....
We would put a cap-and-trade system in place, eh, that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that, uh, greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
Barack Hussein Obama
Editorial board meeting, San Francisco Chronicle
January 2008

 

[colddiesel]

I'm pretty sure we have one plant here in Australia somewhere

It's at Lucas heights in south Sydney about 600 miles north of you. It's tiny, only producing for medical applications.

My younger half brother was brought up in Berkeley UK within less than a mile of a nuclear power station. It operated from 1963 to 1988, since closed down but the reactors will remain hot for at least 300 years.