Nuclear Power Plant Locations

[Kodiak]

I found an intersting link from CNN that shows the location of all the nuclear power plants in the U.S. Enter your zip code and find out how close you are to the nearest facility.

How close is your home to a nuclear plant? (http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html?iid=EL)

[mitunnelrat]

Cool link. I'm happy to see I didn't miss any facilities for my state!

[izzyscout21]

sweet link. glad most are downwind from me around here.

[Sniper-T]

350 miles downwind!

:)

[The Stig]

Swell....it would appear our lovely homestead in Shelton is 99 miles downwind of a 26 year old reactor.

Somehow that does not fill me with joy.

[bacpacker]

Ti shows to be 42 an 67 mies for me. However there is at least 2 closer, but they are research reactors and not listed. Maybe 20-25 miles away. I need to move to a better location.

[Sniper-T]

WOW... the way they're stacked up on the Easern Seaboard is kinda scary!

[bacpacker]

We have 7 reactors within 100 miles.

[Stormfeather]

101 miles upwind

[Grumpy Old Man]

Wow San Onofre is closer than I thought- 39 miles SW of Grumpyville. Canyon Diablo is 241 miles NNW of G'ville so I'm out of the prevailing wind paths of those 2. Of course if LA gets hit I'll be toast as I'm in the prevailing wind path.

[Sniper-T]

I posted a link in another thread, where you could punch in a location, and nuke it with varying intensities of bombs.

Seems to me that this thread would be a good place to have a link to it. punch in a nearby reactor, and you can see what a chernobly or japan kind of breech will affect you

where was it now....

[izzyscout21]

Ti shows to be 42 an 67 mies for me. However there is at least 2 closer, but they are research reactors and not listed. Maybe 20-25 miles away. I need to move to a better location.

your right BP. Totally forgot about the research reactor. Its over at ORNL/ X-10 right?

[bacpacker]

Yeah there's at least 2, maybe a third. Plus a lot of fissle materiial. Heavily gaurded of course.

[izzyscout21]

Heavily gaurded of course.

not for long....big layoffs coming for Wackenhut

[bacpacker]

Thats the rumor. Probably all 3 plants.

[izzyscout21]

ETTP wont be hit that hard. Y-12 and ORNL are looking at the biggest cuts.

[LUNCHBOX]

The nearest one for us is 172 miles. The warnings are for an area 50 miles out. Even if they're off another 50 miles we should still be clear. It still sucks that there are so many. I may try to get a print-up of my tri-state area just so we are informed and have a better travel idea.

[The Stig]

Maybe it's in the thread and I missed it, but is there any sort of commonly accepted "safety radius" around a nuke plant? Like say within 50 miles you're screwed, within 100 you might be ok depending on prevailing winds and amount of spillage and within 200 you're safe from anything short of titanic explosion? I just made up those numbers but you get the idea.

[LUNCHBOX]

Stig, in my location request it stated a 50 mile kill radius, it didn't mention winds though.

[The Stig]

Well duh on me.... RIF


If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.

[bacpacker]

I know during the deal in Japan last year they started out evacuating a 10 mile radius, later that expanded to 20 IIRC. Thing is long term the event was dropping radioactive material for upwards of hundreds of miles. Airborne contaminants made it to North America. Prevailing winds will have a large impact.

[Sniper-T]

I spent a fair portion of time backpacking through Greece in 1991 and 1993. which was 5 -7 years after Chernobyl. I personally saw animals that should not exist. Typically, chickens were the worst. The locals, called them "Chernobyl Chickens" they had 3-4 legs, 3-5 wings, 2 heads, or literally, no bones. they just kinda flopped around. Most locals, either in towns, cities, or the countryside, raised chickens, it was uncommon to see a house without a coop, or just a fence for free ranging them. They (the locals) attributed it to the chickens pecking all the crap that settled. When asked if they ate them... the answer was unanimously yes. what choice did they have. and then they mentioned that most resteraunts were serving the same.

needless to say, I ate alot of fish while there. parts per million (PPM)
lol

[bacpacker]

Wow never heard anything from that far away from Chernobyl. I knew there was some stuff in eastern Europe but Greece is quite a was from there. Just goes to show how far it can travel. If one goes off in the western or central states most everyone else will be screwed.
One more reason to get into hydroponics or cover aquaponics.

[izzyscout21]

My dad was stationed in Germany when Chernobyl went off. He still tells me of guys geting sick from fallout blowing all the way there. He said that his eyes burned for weeks after the incident.

[GunnerMax]

25 miles from one. I knew it was there, and that we were that close, but this brings new light to the situation. thanks