Interactive map, quick information: How Close is Your Home to a Nuclear Power Plant? (or plants)

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http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html

Enter your zip to see your distance from the five plants nearest you.

[KittyWampus]

1. Millstone 21 miles as the crow flies.

[seabeyond]

2. 309 mi. hooyah. nt

[OhioChick]

3. Smack in the middle between Perry & Davis-Besse n/t

[djysrv]

44. Davis Besse Flips its lid

http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2011/03/davis-besse-to-flip-its-2nd-lid-in-2012.html

[Warpy]

4. The map is inaccurate. It doesn't cover small plants

at institutions doing research. There are three near me and the map shows none in the entire state; one is at the university and two are at national labs.

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7. Yes I think they are limited to commercial (or utilities) power generating plants. (nt)

[hlthe2b]

12. Doesn't show military nuclear sources either... or waste sites...

Those dinosaur nuclear missile silos are still out there, after all.

[Dappleganger]

13. It sure is way off!

It has us located 101 miles from the Crystal River plant and in reality we are over 140 miles away.

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19. Unfortunately, in my case it's pretty accurate, showing us essentially surrounded

here in western Chester County PA.

But actually, I think the value of this is not in fine-detail information, but simply in getting more people to understand how many of these are scattered around the US, especially East of the Mississippi.

Everybody has to get their own specific information, including how old are your neighborhood plants and how much spent fuel is stored there. Also, with older plants, where is the plant in the NRC process of extending licenses for 20 more years beyond the 40 years they were originally designed for. And now I read the NRC wants to go for 60 years and beyond.

Lots to find out.

[Sirveri]

15. I confirm this. The USN has two reactors in Goose Creek SC.

Neither of which appear on this map. Long Beach CA, Norfolk VA, Pearl, Bangor WA, Groton CT, etc... should all be on this map, and they are most certainly not on the map.

[NutmegYankee]

32. It's hard to map moving reactors. nt

[Sirveri]

36. Those reactors are permanently stationed as part of the NNPT program.

There are two prototype schools, one in upstate New York, the other in Goose Creek SC. I went to Goose Creek for my own training at NNPTC and then to the Charleston prototype. Those bases I listed will almost always have at least one reactor in harbor at all times with the exception of wartime. Norfolk has a major shipyard which performs all nuclear carrier refueling and most major maintenance. Not to mention the ~six submarines that are home ported there. One of those submarines will almost always be in port, more commonly three or four of them will be in port.

[Liberty Belle]

5. 53 miles from San Onofre, and it's on an earthquake fault.

[cornflake_31]

6. 15 miles from Crystal River....

[Dappleganger]

14. Dh's parents are nearby too in Weeki Wachee.

[rug]

8. 40 miles from Indian Point, NY

[Chris_Texas]

9. 122 miles... I had hoped there was one closer :(

But amazingly, I just happen to be heading right next to it tomorrow morning!

[DebJ]

10. 11 miles from Three Mile Island; 32 from Peach Bottom, and

65 from one other, and 76 from two others. We're toast!

[Xicano]

11. Result

[notadmblnd]

16. I would say between 50 and 70 miles

The Fermi Plant. South of Detroit. I'm about 30 miles North.

on edit: I was right 50 exactly

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. I don't need a map lol.. I'm 6 miles from Watts Bar & 35- 40 miles from Sequoyah

:hi:

[catabryna]

18. 172 miles... Columbia Generating Plant nt

[slackmaster]

20. 49 miles to San Onofre

And I feel fine.

[1monster]

21. Four within two, three, five, and eight driving hours, probably one, three, to five hours away.

We're toast... Two of those are just barely inland of hurricane prone waters.

[hobbit709]

22. Nearest 137 miles.

[one_voice]

23. Hmmm...

should I worry?

* Hope Creek 12 mi

* Salem 1, 13 mi

* Peach Bottom 2, 33 mi

* Limerick 1, 41 mi

* Three Mile Island 66 mi

[Motown_Johnny]

27. Why worry? It isn't like anything could possibly go wrong!

:sarcasm:

[liberaltrucker]

24. Beaver Valley-32

Perry-94
Three Mile Island-169
Susquehanna-191

[Maine-ah]

25. 110 miles, Seabrook

I knew that already. As for safety...not so sure of that. Maine is the tail pipe of the nation.

[Motown_Johnny]

26. 35 mi. from Fermi 2 with the same containment system as Fukushima Daiichi

Well that is a little bit of new information to me. I had a good guess on the distance but didn't know the containment system is the same.

[Sirveri]

37. Do you get a lot of earthquakes and Tsunamis in Illinois?

I'm guessing you don't...

[Motown_Johnny]

40. I am in michigan and earthquakes are almost unheard of, and they are small

a tsunami is not a possibility


I didn't say I was worried about the containment, just that it was new information to me.


FYI this is the plant that "The China Syndrome" movie was based on. Also the book "We Almost Lost Detroit" (Fermi 1 reactor).

[AnOhioan]

28. Four within 100 miles

The closest, Perry, is 24 miles, can the see the steam from the cooling towers quite often in the distance.

[tinkerbell41]

29. 41 miles NT

[NutmegYankee]

30. 11 miles from Millstone in CT

No surprise. I get my power from them.

[Fuzz]

31. 52 miles to Oyster Creek. Wonder what the oysters look like there.

[Poll_Blind]

33. Nice! 250m, 620m,800m,920m, 1,380m! Still not perfect but not as bad as...

...I'd feared.

PB

[SoCalDem]

34. 41 n/t

[cutlassmama]

35. this chart states 151 miles, however I know I'm less than 10 minutes

from one. The one I know about isn't listed on the map.

[RobbinsdaleDem]

38. Monticello, MN 33 miles

[tnlefty]

39. Acording to this map, 6 miles as the radiation flies,

by road it's around 30, but I can't drive through Chickamauga Lake to get there.

TVA's Sequoyah reactors 1 & 2.

[mia]

41. 25 miles from Turkey Point (South Florida) n/t

[ladyVet]

42. 39 miles NW of one.

Shearon Harris in Fuquay-Varina is to the southwest of me.

Time to move, I guess, or look for a better bug out location. :grr:

[Quixote1818]

43. 375 Miles from Albuquerque to Palo Verde in Phoenix. nt