Surrounded by 11 Nuclear power stations!

How many Nuclear reactors are you surrounded by?

I guess Micha started me off on this line of though, but when I received the weekly email from the Nuclear peace foundation I found an article that gave my line of thought something to bite hold of. Hmm, I wasn't too pleased with what I found out. Although I suspected there was a few around me I didn't expect to have 11 Nuclear reactors within a 200 mile radius of myself, I think a couple have been shut down though... still...

How many reactors are you surrounded by? Find out below

World map of Nuclear reactors

British map of Nuclear reactors

USA map of Nuclear reactors

Also, that is not quite accurate, as a power station it seems generally contains at least 2 - 4 reactors, so I am guessing that increases the potential risk by at-least 100 - 300%?

 

I'm *cough* lucky enough to have one about 30-40 minutes away.

 

usually if it melts down (note usually being very few instances) it's only one reactor, this isn't like hiroshima, it's more like a cup spilling than a water baloon popping, meltdowns are rare and only happen when the reactor cannot be cooled, the reactors that might melt down are all near shut off anyway, the worrisome thing is storage, it has to be moved and water percolating through waste will screw you

 

hmmm... ok

I used to live about 60 miles from a reactor that had some sort of minor leak, can't remember the details.. Hinkley point was the reactor... it was due to be closed down a number of years ago but was granted an extension to it's life.... I always found if curious where my sixth finger emerged from, makes playing those extended chords easier (ha ha, it only takes me 2 minutes to make the change now).

 

I was born in nevada, nuclear testing was huge in the 50's, at one point in the 70's my grandfather pointed his geiger counter at the lawn two miles from where I've lived all my life, it maxed out, funny thing is, I'm only epileptic, athasmatic, flat footed and uber high risk for cancer, how 'bout that?

 

Well if you like Nuclear Free come to New Zealand!!!

 

too late, I'm already fucked, I have some cousins there, they're the healthiest members of the family (the rest are here or atlanta)

 

hahaha... that's gotta be awesome


... there's eight on the eastern and western Wisconsin borders. Don't I feel lucky now.
Then there appears to be 9 more just miles away from the border on all sides.


That gives me 17... I "win"!!

 

I'm getting all your waste in a volcano (yucca mountain) So really, I win

 

I dont know of any near nuclear plants in So Cal, but the whole damned state is poisonous enough to kill off all the old geezers that cant take the air, We got more green in the sky than there is on the ground
Pretty exciting eh?

 

fuck..

 

See, nuclear power is ruining the world. Not only does it produce very dangerous waste, it also destroys all life around it. It should never have been invented.

I am lucky to live in a nuclear-free enviroment. There is a forest nearby where the first Napalm bombs where tested, though (it can't be called a forest anymore...). Not that it's harming me phisically, but it's still a scary thought that Napalm was invented here.

 

hmmm... I know there generally pretty cetain when a volcano is extinct, but it still seems like a pretty stupid place to put nuclear waste... say they got it wrong and it's just been a little over sleepy, it wouldn't be the first time a scientific certainty has been proved wrong.... it's all rather depressing really, it may all be high odds but so is the lottery, I don't partake in it but someone wins it most weeks.

 

Right next to a fault line too, and if you will kindly notice nevada has NOT A SINGLE DAMN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, WE GET NO BENEFIT FOPR THIS BULLSHIT BUT WE GET THE SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!


But it's just a desert, the fact that WE HAVE THE FASTEST GROWING POPULATION OF ALL 50STATES MEANS NOTHING!!! and certainly don't menting that there is an assload of evidence that the department of energy falsified documents saying that the shit would be safe in there, oh oh that means NOT A DAMN THING EITHER

sorry I'm a pissed off child with three family members who have\had cancer, we also have the fallon leukemia cluster, and absofuckinglutely no power in the house (three guys, yeah uh huh) at least we have harry reid, I applied to be his intern this next year in his reno office, maybe I can direct some of this energy


Reason number 1 I started turning liberal, Republicans were responsible for the whole idea of yucca mountain.....

 

dude fucking france uses the most nuclear power (by percentage of total power use) of any nation, you're right next door, the swedes were the people who reported chernobyl, not the russians (chernobyl was 50 miles or so outside of kiev) You are not in a nuclear free zone, you are in europe, all of europe is lit up like a small uranium mine, I bet you if you built an electron cloud chamber sans fuel you'd see particles anyway

 

There is a nuclear plant one mile away from me.


It's the most wonderful thing, compare it to a sports stadium
with all that noise and litter.

The Nuke is quiet, real quiet and makes no smoke. It's surrounded
by its own open space that acts as a nature sanctuary.

All airplanes must give it a ten mile wide space so the sky is kept quiet
by the nuke.

Its been there since 1968 with only the most minor problems.

Compare it to the coal fired electric plants, no contest.

I think we should build more nuclear power plants.

 

Yes, I live close to France. I meant my country had no nuclear plants. But since my country is so small, that wouldn't make that much of a difference. I guess that, if one blows up, we're all dead here. The world is a ticking timebomb.

And Nuclear plants aren't great. It might be quiet, not making any visible smoke, but it produces toxic waste and there is still a huge danger. Nuclear power is too dangerous to be left in the hands of men.

 

Yeah but you aren't storing it, how bout that? How bout you get some lobbyists in your state to volunteer, I'm certain no one from nevada will stop you

 

Interesting topic. I live in Northeast Tennessee. I had no idea that there were so many power stations nearby.

 

no ones around my area apparently.