* Pilgrim 1 - 51 mi
* Millstone 2, 3 - 63 mi
* Seabrook - 65 mi
* Vermont Yankee - 67 mi
* Indian Point 2, 3 - 136 mi
Let’s make a link: http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html
108 miles for me.
I don't know but my wife lives near a source of natural gas.
I don’t know, but I’d trade you 50 windmills for one nuke plant!
14 miles from TMI.
20 miles from Millstone. As mentioned in an thread from earlier this week, I haven’t even thought of it until I saw the post.
The reason that you have never heard of them is because they have operated safely for decades.
Fermi 2
Plant Operator: DTE Energy
Oldest reactor on site: 25 years old
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.
198 miles from me. Down wind and farther to the east.
17 Miles from Limerick. Almost sold my Potassium Iodate when I saw what it was going for on ebay.
Braidwood Nuclear Power Station - 12.6 miles
LaSalle Nucler Power Station - 28 miles
I’ve got scripting blocked so the page doesn’t work. When I looked to see what I could unblock, I noticed that they’re trying to run scripting from about 15 different sites. I temporarily enabled CNN.COM but it needs one of the other 14. Too much for my internet comfort.
I’m here between DC Cook, Palisades, and Fermi II.
I live 32 miles from H B Robinson and have worked here for 19 years
I am in between two - Oak Ridge TN is 17 miles and Sequoyah is 36 miles as the crow flies.
Then again we also have the facility that is decommissioning old nuke bombs about 45 miles from me.
Oh well.
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!
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.
Here in New Mexico we don’t know and they won’t tell us.