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How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

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8 miles from Indian Point.

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It doesn't matter how far it is because of the way Los Angeles/OC area is geographically, any radiation that comes into the area is staying here because of how the basin area is which is why smog pollution just stays and hangs in the atmosphere because it can't get easily blown away.
 
About 30 miles, I'm in Houston and they are building a new one in Bay City. Oh yeah, to make it more fun, it's partly owned by the same company that is having problems in Japan now. Yahoo......I hope they have better safety measures here. I was wondering why they were starting to sell the full-body white suits with the gas mask things in our local Academy Sporting Goods stores......
 
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Fort Calhoun25 mi
Cooper57 mi
Wolf Creek 1202 mi
Duane Arnold223 mi
Callaway275 mi

I'm pretty much toast with the two near me. Both basically overlap and creates a huge zone.
 
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I like the people who are posting distances by car
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well sure. that's determines how long it takes you to get there to help out when there's a emergency. After all the discussions here on the Japanese reactors, I'm sure anyone here can handle anything that arises at a plant.
 
Here in the Indy area:
* Clinton 120 mi
* Braidwood 1, 2 130 mi
* Dresden 2, 3 139 mi
* La Salle 1, 2 146 mi
* D.C. Cook 1, 2 148 mi

Back home in NJ:

* Hope Creek 1 8 mi
* Salem 1, 2 8 mi
* Limerick 1, 2 47 mi
* Peach Bottom 2, 3 47 mi
* Oyster Creek 66 mi

Buddy of mine used to have a private airport in the shadow of Salem/Hope Creek (same site) and was forced to close it after 9/11.
 
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5 miles from Three Mile Island. I lived in Middletown during the 1979 accident. I went by everyday on the way to work. I noticed that morning that there was a lot of media present and no water vapor coming out of the cooling towers. Had no idea there was an accident until I got to work and they announced it to us. We never really knew how bad it was until much later. A lot of people left the area, especially those with kids, But being the young dumbasses we were, my friends and I decided to drink heavily and shield ourselves with aluminum empties. We're all still alive somehow...
 
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5 miles from Three Mile Island. I lived in Middletown during the 1979 accident. I went by everyday on the way to work. I noticed that morning that there was a lot of media present and no water vapor coming out of the cooling towers. Had no idea there was an accident until I got to work and they announced it to us. We never really knew how bad it was until much later. A lot of people left the area, especially those with kids, But being the young dumbasses we were, my friends and I decided to drink heavily and shield ourselves with aluminum empties. We're all still alive somehow...
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You mean how not bad it was, I assume?
 
Closest Plants Distance

  • Kewaunee 139 mi
  • Point Beach 1, 2 143 mi
  • Prairie Island 1, 2 201 mi
  • Monticello 238 mi
  • Byron 1, 2276 mi
I wonder if cheese would become self aware after enough radiation.
 
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There are four in Ontario. I'm about 70km from the Pickering Nuclear Generation Station. The others are Darlington (about 20km west of Pickering), Bruce, and Chalk River Laboratories. That's the one that produces medical isotopes.

I'm not worried about it in the slightest about any of them. Ontario actually wants to build more reactors. They're going ahead with it despite the current incident in Japan. Probably the only smart thing the current administration has done with the energy portfolio. We've wasted billions on wind and solar pipe dreams. They've finally woken up to that fact.

I'm more concerned about the natural gas power plant outside of town. When those things go boom, they go BOOM. Plus they built it up wind of the town so it carries all that pollution over us.
 
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