How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

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How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby Country » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:27 pm

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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby glass » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:38 pm

As the crow flies about 7 miles

Browns Ferry 1, 2, 3
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Oldest reactor on site: 37 years old
Same containment system as the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby tn-dave » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:02 pm

I am about 80 miles Southeast from Oak Ridge TN by interstate -- As the crow flies I'm not sure about the distance.

Edit: Looks like the website above is listing Watts Bar 1 at 101 miles closest to me here. Interesting link..Thanks..!!
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby Mossy » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:22 pm

820 miles. It's down wind or cross wind, depending on the weather.
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby hobo finds » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:09 pm

141 miles to the north of me
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby scrapper2010 » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:15 pm

200 or so miles from me in northern ohio.
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby AGCoinHunter » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:30 pm

89 miles...
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby Beau » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:36 pm

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the map is wrong, we have 3 reactors that it does not show, here in La.

they do not have a containment wall, or anyting else for protection.

about 50 Highway miles from my home to it, but as the crow flyes I don`t know.





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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby Roadrunner » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:45 am

5 between 108-135 miles from me...and all between due west and due north of me. :( :(

Of course we usually get winds from west, northwest, or north.
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby copperhead57 » Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:12 pm

There is one about 25 miles east of me.
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby Delawhere Jack » Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:48 pm

Closest one 17.47 miles SSW or me, two more within about 60 miles north and northwest, including TMI.

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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby slickeast » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:23 pm

2 of them 28 miles from me. 7 total within 110 miles.
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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby Delawhere Jack » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:45 pm

slickeast wrote:2 of them 28 miles from me. 7 total within 110 miles.



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Re: How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

Postby blackrabbit » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:37 pm

There is a decommissioned one 10 miles from here but they got there nuclear waste in dry cask storage buried in the bluffs behind the old reactor. Supposedly that is the safest bet for preventing any disaster. However, with the report from San Francisco of the radioactivity in rainwater 18,000% percent above drinking water limits I am thinking no where is safe from nuclear disaster. I wish I did not have to worry about the rain here in California and I wish psychopaths did not control the world's political economy putting their own profit ahead of life on earth.
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