Do you live within 10 miles of a nuke plant? Did you get the "required manual"?

[dixiegrrrrl]

According to MSNBC,

In the U.S., nuclear plants are required to provide annual detailed emergency plans to residents within the 10-mile (16-kilometer) evacuation zone.
The Indian Point nuclear plant near New York City, which has preparedness plans typical of other U.S. nuclear sites, sends manuals to every resident and business in the evacuation zone explaining everything from evacuation procedures to the usefulness of potassium iodide pills in helping prevent radiation-induced thyroid cancer. Residents can sign up to receive warnings by telephone or email and there is a warning siren for those in the evacuation area.

I'd be interested in hearing what you have been told re: emergency preparedness.

MSNBC article says Japanese were NOT informed of nuclear plant dangers.

Few Japanese knew of nuclear danger:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42219177/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

[hedgehog]

1. I have no worries whatsoever - I'm 12.95 miles from the nuke plants,

so I'm perfectly safe!

[Journeyman]

2. Me too -- I'm 45 miles away. It might as well be on the Moon. . .

[petronius]

3. We get something in the mail every year or so. There's a siren system that

gets tested a few times a year, and KI pills are available. We're ~12.5 straight-line miles away...

[InkAddict]

4. I used to live within 10-mile zone and, yes, we got the little green

manual as well as a little sign to be posted in a window: "I have been notified."

It was a federal crime to fail to pass on the manual to a new owner/renter.

Basically, all it said was leave the evacuation zone quickly and as directed; do not take belongings; do not take pets; your children would be evacuated from the schools though they may not go to the same site that you do and everyone would, tra-la-la, meet up later.

Years after we moved, iodine pills were also distributed.

[hlthe2b]

5. I'm reminded of the eduation campaign of the 60s

for little school children to "protect" themselves in the event of nuclear attack. For the youngsters among the DU community, that equates to this little ditty: "Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass GOODBYE!" :shrug:

[Journeyman]

25. We had to face away from windows, since flying glass is the greatest danger in a nuclear attack. . .

And it's true: Nothing's so bad as molten glass in your ass.

[Dems to Win]

6. No, I don't live within 10 miles of a nuke plant. Thanks to Rose Gaffney and other heroes who

fought PG&E and won, back in 1963.

There's a Hole in the Head (Bodega Bay, CA, smack dab on top of the San Andreas fault) but no nuclear power plant.

http://www.albionmonitor.com/12-3-95/bodegapge.html

[Jack Sprat]

19. You live in Bogega Bay?

That was the town in the Hitchcock film, The Birds. I had a severe young crush on Tippi Hedren and always dreamed of living there someday. I have never even visited in all these years. I really like the cool temperatures I have seen on The Weather Channel in the summer months. You are real lucky in my opinion, despite it being on the fault line. Do you have a room to rent?

[NutmegYankee]

7. Yes, I got one every year.

It had evacuation zones, shelters listed, and all kinds of explanation on what could happen.

This year I moved and am now 11 miles away but still got one, most likely since they just do it by town.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. How do the events in Japan make you feel about living close to a reactor, now?

Anyone?

[petronius]

9. No change in my feelings - it's still way down on my list of hazards

There are probably 1000s of bigger risks that I'm regularly exposed to, both in the local environs, and by my own choices/activities...

[erinlough]

12. 3 miles away

we have instructions, drills, evacuation plans. It made me think again of our family plans and review meet-up points etc. I have always been a little uncomfortable with it, but I have always lived by it. It is what it is. I'm more worried about the state of democracy in Michigan and the rest of the country than I am with the nuclear plant.

[Jack Sprat]

20. Have you ever been tempted

to go down to the plant and embrace the core? ;-)

[BrookBrew]

21. Happy that it provides very cheap power. Thus allowing my area to pull jobs

from Cal. Large datacenter operations continually move because the industrial rate is 2/3 less than in sunnyvale and surrounding areas.

The fish bite in the warm water pumped into the lake earlier in the year too..

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. I'm about 10 miles away

If there's a catastrophe, I'm driving straight toward the plant.

No sense dying a horrible death.

[rhett o rick]

11. Can you name an American city that has had as many as 15 nuclear reactors within

1 mile of the city center?

[petronius]

13. San Diego? Norfolk? Probably a bunch if you count the navy...

[rhett o rick]

16. It would have to be a city that handles nuclear carriers. Dont think San Diego qualifies. I am sure

there is one or two on the East Coast. Bremerton Washington the State.

[hootinholler]

14. My guess is Charleston S.C.

Might not be a mile there. Other candidates are New London and Groton, Conn, but again that mile thing. Honolulu Hi is another possibility along with Norfolk Va.

-Hoot

[rhett o rick]

17. If they dont handle nuc carriers, they arent likely to have 15 nuc subs at a time.

Bremerton Washington the State.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. LA?

Do tell...we are all curious.

[rhett o rick]

18. A number of US cities have nuclear subs in for repair, but to get as many as 15 would require a city

that repairs carriers as well as subs. Bremerton, Washington.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. Believe it or not- I was born in Bremerton.

Years and years later, would occasionally get a glimpse of one of the subs coming thru the Straits of Jaun De Fuca
heading in or out of the Sound.

[rhett o rick]

24. So you are familiar with the shipyard location. nm

[Ghost in the Machine]

22. Yes, we get a calander every year right around Thanksgiving

It has info about the plant, and has maps with the evacuation routes and all the info about where the schools will be evacuated to. It's pretty cool, because I never have to worry about buying a calander lol.

We also have sirens, and they are tested on the first wednesday of the month. Several years ago, I had someone staying with me for a while. She moved here right at the 1st of the month, and got here on a monday night. I took her for a ride on tuesday and showed her the lake, the river and the nuke plant. Wednesday morning, when the sirens started going off, she asked "what the hell is that??" I jumped up, started acting like I was freaking out and yelling "oh my god! the nuclear plant is melting down! we gotta get the fuck out of here!" It was funny as hell! We still laugh about it to this day, and she even did the same to her daughter when her daughter came to stay for a while.