How close do you live to a nuclear reactor?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Don't know? Well now you can find out with the handy dandy nuclear reactor locater. Brought to you by your friends at Greenpeace.

http://usa.greenpeace.org/nuclear_locator/

I found one about 130 miles from my house that I didn't even know about. :shrug:

[Blue Diadem]

1. If Davis Besse doesn't get me

then Fermi 2 will.

[4morewars]

5. There is an "incident" at Fermi right now !

I just read about it in the Michigan forum, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=159x1940

State, Wayne, and Monroe officials were called to the Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe early Monday evening to investigate what they would only call a "situation".

Authorities told Action News just after 6:00 that they were responding to some kind of situation within the plant.
http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132...

[notadmblnd]

10. I think we're at least 50 miles from Fermi

not really sure though, I know it south of detroit and We're 30 miles north.

[4morewars]

17. That's about right...

Fifty miles wouldn't matter too much if there was a meltdown !
ALL our worries would be over though !

[Blue Diadem]

12. Thanks

I heard about it earlier. I didn't realize that Fermi 2 could extend into Northern Ohio until I checked the website. My biggest worry was always Davis Besse which is much closer and has some real serious issues the last few years.

[4morewars]

18. I think they ALL have issues !

Many of them are about 30 years old, the end of their lifes. I don't think there is one in the country that is under 20 years old.
Scary shit !

[Blue Diadem]

22. Davis Besse's last problem

was due to inspectors ignoring signs of corrosion from boric acid. You're right, with the age of these who knows what could happen.

snip:
The workers found a large hole in the reactor vessel head next to CRDM nozzle #3. The hole was about six inches deep, five inches long, and seven inches wide. The hole extended to within 1-1/2 inches of the adjacent CRDM nozzle #11. The stainless steel liner welded to the inner surface of the reactor vessel head for protection against boric acid was at the bottom of the hole. This liner was approximately 3/16-inch thick and had bulged outward about 1/8-inch due to the high pressure (over one ton per square inch) inside the reactor vessel.

http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/NuclearIndustry/nuclear-accident-2.htm

[4morewars]

27. Great !

Nice work fellas ! </sarcasm>

I am probably close enough to that one as well; about 20 miles south of Detroit. I guess it would depend on which way the wind was blowing ? You also have Perry near you.

I just read the link on the OP. Not one of the reactors in this country is under 30 years old !!! It's just a matter of time before a serious incident.
And bushco wants to build more of these timebombs ? We are so fucked.

[Justin54B20L]

23. Hell, I'm only 21 miles from Davis Besse, yay for me =)

[TOhioLiberal]

25. are you in NW Ohio too? EOM

[Blue Diadem]

26. Yeppers n/t

[GOPisEvil]

2. Comanche #1.

There's also the South Texas Nuclear Project outside Houston.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. I knew about the South Texas Nuclear Project 1 & 2

Comanche #1 was unknown to me. I assume there must be a Comanche #2, thus the use of #1? :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

16. Not sure...looks like it's a two-unit plant.

http://www.txucorp.com/about/activity/elecgen/plants/comanche.asp

[alittlelark]

3. About 250 miles !!!

Yay!!!:-)

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4. Closest would be either Oyster Creek or Indian Point

[JVS]

6. 41 miles

[Acryliccalico]

7. I noticed that the Blue

states have more than the red states do. I wounder what that means? I know we have more larger population centers, it is just that that blank spot straight up the middle bothers me.:shrug:

[pres2032]

8. closest is Three Mile Island!

lucky lucky me!!!

[TheMightyFavog]

9. Point Beach in Manitowoc, WI

At home in Coleman, Kewaunee's slightly closer.

[Acryliccalico]

11. They are all around me

:scared: closest = 17 miles away

[meganmonkey]

13. Too close to the one that is leaking right now

I live about 45 miles from Fermi II

"What does living within injury range mean for me?

The zone for peak early injuries is the area surrounding a plant in which radiation-related injuries are expected to occur following an accident. This includes only injuries that would require hospitalization or other medical attention - such as sterility, thyroid nodules, vomiting and cataracts. "

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/breaking_news/10724053.htm

Needless to say, I am a little :scared: right now.

And the worst part is I just watched the China Syndrome a couple weeks ago.

[lancdem]

15. I live about 35 miles from Three Mile Island

:(

[JVS]

20. It's the Amish who will suffer most

[name not needed]

21. At least TMI wasn't built on a fault line

*coughindianpointcough*

[LeftyMom]

19. We closed ours down

I live near Rancho Seco, the first nuke plant closed by citizen initiative. The nearest active plant to me is in Diablo Canyon 1 outside SLO, hundreds of miles away.

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28. Unless one melts down

25 miles? Oh, you'd be seriously fucked.

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[GOPisEvil]

31. And as long they bury that nasty nuclear waste in someone else's yard, too

Right?

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[GOPisEvil]

35. Then you're volunteering your yard.

The people in Nevada aren't too thrilled about it.

I agree we need power, and the choices, aside from wind and hydro, are pretty dirty.

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[GOPisEvil]

37. Yeah, I'm not sure coal-fired is any better...

...dirty is dirty...

[Blue Diadem]

30. Our area is beginning to use wind power

and I think it's one of the best ideas. They located them on unused landfill space, perfect spot for them.

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[salin]

34. Not close enough for the site to be able to

give me mileage (refers to an area that is more than 6 hours away). However there was a reactor that was being built in state 20 years ago that ran into so many problems during construction that the project was finally scrapped. *whew*

[Mokkori]

38. No nukes in BC

Another reason to love this province. Mind you if the one in Alberta went up, we'd have to pray the Rockies keep the radiation in the prairies.

BC set up hydroelectric dams decades ago. At the time they flooded a lot of wildlife habitat, which certainly would not be allowed today. It's a wonderful combination of foresight and total ignorance.

[Worst Username Ever]

39. Damn!! Minneapolis is 30 miles away from one.

[okieinpain]

40. not too close, but people at work have been talking about my

greenish glow lately.

[NNadir]

41. We have several in New Jersey. It's great.

It beats the shit out having coal plants near my house or garbage incinerators.

I would love to have a nuclear power plant in my town, because it would make me feel safe and secure and hopeful for the future, but, sigh, this is not to be. Ignorance wins every time.

As it happens millions of people die every year from air pollution, unremarked by the retarded performing clowns at Greenpeace, and nobody has actually died from a nuclear accident since those four guys in Japan about ten years ago, and a few hundred people at Chernobyl.

Unfortunately though we live in a country inhabited by grossly stupid people. They therefore think that nuclear power is the problem while the atmosphere collapses around them.

Man, that is depressing.

[maveric]

42. About 40 miles or so to San Onofre.