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!
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!
How far away is considered too close?
...for me over 500 miles. I also don’t get much phone service!
go ahead and sell it.. It only protects your thyroid anyway..
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.
Sitting on the head is way to close.. Nuetron radiation
Here in New Mexico we don’t know and they won’t tell us.
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.
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).
It would take more than 50 windmills to produce what a nuclear plant produces!
So 10 or 20 miles is in the OK column?
Maybe around 3,000 or so miles.
“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!
Ref post #8.
Bingo!!!
Don’t have to look, Millstone is about 35 miles south.
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.
I have you all beat. Type in Minooka illinois. I’m three miles from one and 12 miles from another.
More likely copper thieves will come in and steal all the plumbing.
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/
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