I live close to a nuclear power plant (well, three actually, with

[hedgehog]

talk of a fourth to be built soon.) I'm not very impressed with governmnet evacuation plans after seeing them in action during hurricane season.

[dbonds]

1. You don't have to worry about evacuating with nuclear accidents.

They happen too fast to get away from them.

[iamjoy]

2. This Is What I'm Saying

They told most of the people in Houston to stay put because they knew they couldn't evacuate that many people in an orderly fashion. Well, what if they really had to do it?

I don't understand the Republicans sometimes. They talk about what a threat terrorists are, and that they could one day get hold of a nuclear weapon or make a "dirty bomb" with radioactive waste - yet, they want to build more nuclear power plants and increase our nuclear arsenal.

They talk about what a threat terrorists are, that they could launch a chemical or biological attack and have no plan to evacuate a large city or how to deal with the evacuees should the need arise.

It makes no sense. Do they really think these things are a threat and don't care if we die, or are they just trying to scare us into voting for them?

[Raschel]

3. I live close to a nuclear power plant , well, three actually,

You live close to THREE? (in granny Clampett voice) Ooooh dogggy! That qualeefies you to be a nucleer physicist!

[hedgehog]

5. Whoa - I hadn't thought of that but you're right - if living near Russia

makes Sarah Palin a diplomat, then living where I do means I should be expecting the call from the Nobel committee any moment now!

[AndyTiedye]

4. MOVE!

My parents didn't. They both died of cancer, as did quite a few others in the old home town after they built the nuke.

[hedgehog]

6. Not only do I live near threee nukies, but I live in the Great Lakes Basin,

where we get to enjoy every carcinogen ever dumped into the air and water. We're still benefiting from chemicals dumped n the lakes 50 years ago while being downwind of coal fired plants out in the Mid west. We've got everything here!

[pitohui]

7. you can't get insurance against radiation events, therefore i would move if i could

if you rent, it's one thing, but if you are a home owner, then you cannot and willnot be compensated for damage caused by a radiation leak or a terror event, the cost of the insurance was too high and no nuclear reactor could have ever been built if this loophole had not been put into national law

assuming your home is your biggest investment over your lifetime and that a chernobyl style event could cause it to lose all value in a day thru no fault of your own, i don't know how the average middle class or working class person could afford to take that kind of financial risk

if you're dead, you're dead and have no worries, but if you're living and destitute and now too old to regain where you were financially, you have a LOT of worries

so what i'm saying is, the risk of being killed isn't the only concern

i would sell the house if possible, if it isn't possible because no one wants to buy, i don't know what i would do other than look for a VERY high paying job because in the worst case, insurance won't help you, you will need your own source of funds to replace your home (or else you'll be forced to take out a new mortgage on the new home, maybe at a time of life when you were hoping to retire)

just one more thing to think about

[hedgehog]

8. BAsed on the Chernobyl experience, I'm old enough to have no worries.

I'll die of something else before the cancer gets me now (maybe I'll get cancer from being downwind of the atmospheric testing back in the 50's....... My husband remembers being told to stay indoors after one event, and he just came through prostate cancer at a young age. http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/box7_5.aspx