There are 104 power nuclear reactors currently operating in the U.S

[boston bean]

Go about half way down the page and enter your zip code to determine how close you are to one:

http://www.nukepills.com/nuclear-reactor-maps.htm

[Cirque du So-What]

1. In my case, 9 within the 200-mile protective zone

Closest one is 86 miles, and I'm most definitely downwind.

[Lucinda]

2. 6 within 200 miles - 1 due west from me @ 70 miles

3 total under 100 miles

[boston bean]

3. I have 5

3 under a hundred mile radius

1 under 50 mile radius

[madokie]

7. Northeast Oklahoma here

We put a stop to PSO putting in a nuclear power plant about 12 miles upwind from me here. Black Fox they called it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Am I ever so happy we did too.

Add: Rec'd

[boston bean]

9. the only one ever canceled... WOW

From you link:

In June 1979, about 500 people were arrested for protesting about construction of the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant. In 1982, after nine years of court and legal challenges by Carrie Barefoot Dickerson and the Citizen's Action for Safe Energy (CASE) group, all plans were abandoned and no complex was ever built. It was the only nuclear power plant in the US to be canceled by a combination of legal and citizen action after construction had started.<1><2>

[madokie]

10. We do get somethings right

If you look past our two idiot senators, inhofe and coburn

You know on that we used to send good people to the US senate and house until we started counting our votes Electronically. And thats a fact

[boston bean]

11. I would say you Oklahomans do get some things right!

I believe you about the electronic voting...

[sabbat hunter]

4. and yet

I would still rather live in the shadow of a nuclear power plant than a coal fired one.

[boston bean]

5. In MA there are 12 coal plants.... click on link to see the ones near you.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Existing_U.S._Coal_Plants

[sabbat hunter]

19. Thankfully

I am closer to Indian Point than any of the coal fired plants in NY. The nearest coal fired one is in NJ which is 15 miles away. Indian point is 40 miles away.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. I'm 50 miles from 2 of them. Do iodine tablets come in flavors?

:scared:

[DCKit]

8. They're all fine. What could possibly go wrong?

:sarcasm:

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[AnOhioan]

13. 4 under 100 miles

closest one is a mere 25 miles away

[retread]

14. No worries here. My nearest is in Allllaaaabama!!

[IDemo]

15. Just a note

That appears to cover commercial power facilities only. There are also test reactor sites, in http://www.localnews8.com/news/27175735/detail.html">my state as well as others, I'm sure.

[pipoman]

16. I question the honesty of comparing US facilities to

Chernobyl.

On 26 April 1986, at 01:23 a.m. (UTC+3), reactor four suffered a catastrophic power increase, leading to explosions in the core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere<6>73 and ignited the combustible graphite moderator. The burning graphite moderator increased the emission of radioactive particles, carried by the smoke, as the reactor had not been contained by any kind of hard containment vessel (unlike all Western plants).

[boston bean]

17. If Japan has a full meltdown, which appears likely, we might then

be able to compare as those facilities had a containment vessel.

Although, I wasn't looking to compare.

I was looking to inform people how close they were to a nuclear facility.

Do you find something wrong with that?

[pipoman]

18. No

I really don't have a dog in this fight. I am, admittedly, complacent on the issue of reactors for energy. I know I like my lights to come on when I flip the switch. I know there is inherent danger in many sources of power. I like wind power, but alas there is controversy and those who oppose that too. The opposers seem to also like lights in their homes and blowers on their furnaces and A/C units.

[boston bean]

21. There is nothing wrong with an informed populace and most people don't

want to die of radiation poisoning.

There is a risk and it is up to individual people to estimate those risks themselves and give our governments our stamp of approval or not.

But you see, it's not really up to people how they get/consume energy.

It is pre-determined by those most flush with cash.

Unless we truly put our foot down, which it appears many are not ready to do that.

It might take an episode like what is occuring in Japan for people to get it. And that is not something I wish or hope for.

[jtrockville]

24. A more relevant comparison would be...

A comparison of Fukushima reactors to GE's Mark 1 reactors in the US. Here's a list:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-nuclear-ge-idUSN1227232120110312

[redwitch]

20. I love the ads for potassium iodide pills here.

This site is a giant ad for IOSAT pills.

[boston bean]

22. is their information wrong about how many power plants are near by you?

And what's wrong with people who live near nuclear facilities having access to iodine pills?

[redwitch]

27. Nope.

And nothing wrong with people having access to the pills, it just seemed funny to me. I can just imagine the TV ads and their disclaimers.

[IDemo]

23. Sometimes I think I should disable AdBlock on DU

I seem to be missing some entertainment value courtesy of Google Ads.

[Angry Dragon]

25. 26 miles for one and 66 miles for another

[NutmegYankee]

26. I've lived within the 10 mile zone of one for the last 6 years.

I have no doubt that the electricity I'm using now is from nuclear.

[madrchsod]

28. 20-100 miles from 4 of them and not worried at all.....

well unless the madrid fault cracks the midwest in half then i`ll be concerned.