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How close is your home to a nuclear power plant? - Interesting!
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html

Posted on 03/18/2011 2:02:43 PM PDT by jcsjcm

I'm not worried about how close I am, I just found this very interesting and thought some of you freepers might like to know as well!

Some of these plants I've never heard of!


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To: jcsjcm

They left off the Hanford, Washington, nuclear facility, where the US produced all its Cold War plutonium. That site is now has the most HIGHLY radioactive toxic waste in the US, probably more than everywhere else put together. They also had the only reactors in the US that really COULD explode like an A-Bomb, which civilian power-generation reactors cannot, because these were fast breeeder reactors, which produced more fuel than they consumed. Good thing that THEY never got out of control!


21 posted on 03/18/2011 2:21:35 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: jcsjcm

How far away is considered too close?


22 posted on 03/18/2011 2:21:56 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: jcsjcm

...for me over 500 miles. I also don’t get much phone service!


23 posted on 03/18/2011 2:22:12 PM PDT by fatfertile
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To: Drill Thrawl

go ahead and sell it.. It only protects your thyroid anyway..


24 posted on 03/18/2011 2:22:29 PM PDT by garykfd (American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God)
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To: WestwardHo
"I don’t know, but I’d trade you 50 windmills for one nuke plant!"

I wouldn't. I'm really in the West, and it's windy here most of the time. On top of that, the new MidNite Classic MPPT controller (for turbines) is showing nearly triple yields from this small turbine (10-footer lower on the page, homebuilt by men). And this place is off of the grid by well over 2 miles.

As for big power company turbines, I don't care. But property rights are important for conservatives, while regulations against property rights are antithetical.


25 posted on 03/18/2011 2:23:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: jcsjcm

83 miles for us...but I have friends that have 2nd homes pretty near it. They used to joke there were definite advantages to living close to the nuclear plant...they could go hunting at night (because the critters glowed in the dark) and once you shot them, you didn’t have to light up a fire to cook them, just wrap them in tin foil and they’d cook themselves.


26 posted on 03/18/2011 2:24:40 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: presently no screen name

Sitting on the head is way to close.. Nuetron radiation


27 posted on 03/18/2011 2:24:40 PM PDT by garykfd (American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God)
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To: jcsjcm

Here in New Mexico we don’t know and they won’t tell us.


28 posted on 03/18/2011 2:24:57 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: jcsjcm

I’ve got Turkey Point, which is located RIGHT on Biscayne Bay. I believe there are two reactors there. I’m not sure tsunamis are really an issue in SoFL, but hurricanes are. And, even during Andrew back in 1992 (which directly hit Turkey Point), the reactors were unscathed, although there was considerable damage done to the plant itself.


29 posted on 03/18/2011 2:25:12 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: jcsjcm

Nuke plants are good. I don’t need one, but they’re okay. ...aren’t any upwind from here for hundreds of miles. As for nuclear power technologies, it would be nice, if they’d develop one for small vehicle propulsion (small as in full size pickup trucks).


30 posted on 03/18/2011 2:26:22 PM PDT by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: WestwardHo
I don’t know, but I’d trade you 50 windmills for one nuke plant!

It would take more than 50 windmills to produce what a nuclear plant produces!

31 posted on 03/18/2011 2:26:58 PM PDT by blondee123 (Japan in MAJOR CRISIS & ZERO PARTIES ON! IMPEACH HIM!)
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To: garykfd

So 10 or 20 miles is in the OK column?


32 posted on 03/18/2011 2:27:04 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: jcsjcm

Maybe around 3,000 or so miles.


33 posted on 03/18/2011 2:27:39 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: garykfd

“go ahead and sell it.. It only protects your thyroid anyway..”

This is true!

In my case I already took radioactive iodine to kill off my thyroid, so..... Now I take supplements to keep it functioning!


34 posted on 03/18/2011 2:29:21 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: iowamark

Ref post #8.

Bingo!!!


35 posted on 03/18/2011 2:29:21 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: jcsjcm

Don’t have to look, Millstone is about 35 miles south.


36 posted on 03/18/2011 2:29:44 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: KarlInOhio

Same containment system as the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan

“I guess it sucks to be Detroit ... but then that goes without saying every day.”

Wonder what the odds are that Detroit’s plant will get hit with the largest quake in history and then have it’s backup generator washed out to sea by one of the worst Tsunamis in history? Barring that, they will probably be OK.


37 posted on 03/18/2011 2:30:16 PM PDT by jessduntno ("That 3 a.m. phone call from Egypt to Obama went right to the answering machine." - Sarah Palin)
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To: jessduntno

I have you all beat. Type in Minooka illinois. I’m three miles from one and 12 miles from another.


38 posted on 03/18/2011 2:35:05 PM PDT by Lachisula
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To: jessduntno

More likely copper thieves will come in and steal all the plumbing.


39 posted on 03/18/2011 2:35:05 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: jcsjcm

Watts Bar 1 - 43 mi

But thats not right because
Oak Ridge has multiple operating Nuclear Reactors,
including the HFIR,
which is less than 10 mi. from here...

http://neutrons.ornl.gov/
http://neutrons.ornl.gov/facilities/HFIR/


40 posted on 03/18/2011 2:35:15 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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