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!
16 miles, St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant.
Built with workers partaking in cocaine raffles in the parking lot during lunch.
I’m 103 miles from Three Mile Island!!!!!!
Actually, I knew about all but the last in the list. I’ve been on a hike and a tour to one of them, Peach Bottom, which isn’t that far from TMI.
My closest is 50 miles.
130 miles
One of the major things holding back nuclear power in the US is the NIMBY factor.
Good job steveo,
Four miles from Limerick. At least I am on the west side.:)
Of course if we were to be hit with a 9.0 earthquake or a tsunami here, we would have much bigger problems than the nuke plant.
Three Mile Island: 8 Miles ( I can see the plume)
Peach Bottom 2 & 3: 23 Miles
Limerick: 1 & 2: 54 Miles
Hope Creek: 69 Miles
Salem 1 & 2: 70 Miles
See post #16!
Indian PT 50 miles
Millstone 51 miles
Vermont Yankee 86 miles
Are you west of Eastern New Mexico? Would you enjoy your ranch house bathed in the red glow of the hazard lights atop the forest of windmills at night? I don’t know where property rights fits in there.
I hate the sight of the @#$$%^ things. Too bad they were stone still when we were having sub-zero temps this winter!
It would take more than 50 windmills to produce what a nuclear plant produces!
OK, I’ll trade you every windmill between here and San Antonio...soon as I dig ‘em outta the ground!
10.2 miles
Catawba Nuclear Station,
Rock Hill, SC
It is about 30 miles to the Burlington Kansas Plant from my home. Years ago, in another state, we went to the forest behind a Nuke plant and picked mushrooms. I was stung by a stinging nettle, but had no other injuries. The mushrooms were wonderful.
I have no thyroid so guess I won’t need the Iodine (My dad had a uranium mine and I played with the stuff as a kid, so got Thyroid cancer.)
My home is approx. 80 mi. to the Northeast of the Glen Rose plant (in Texas).
I've actually worked IN containment at both Dresden and Braidwood numerous times. And, besides 3 voluptuous breasts and larger feet, I'm perfectly normal.
133 miles directly east of the (Bill?) Clinton plant in Illinois.
But I lived through all the atmospheric A and H bomb tests of the 50s and 60s. So I glow in the dark already.
Better a nuke plant than to be downwind of a coal plant
I saw on FR earlier this week that the typical coal and nuke power plants produce electricity 80+ per cent of the time and wind turbines and solar produce 8 per cent of the time.
“Green” energy is a huge investment for a low utilization.
Perry Nuclear Powerplant - 10 miles, in the direct path of the wind. There haven’t been any problems in the 30+ years I’ve lived here.
Got you beat! 10.1 miles to Energy Northwest #2.
I toured the GE Mark2 reactor’s interior during a planned refueling shutdown (inside the outer rectangular shell; saw the elevated fuel rod storage pond).
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