How far are you from a reactor?

[mamacatnv]

For those in Nevada, how is the Yucca mountain nuclear waste repository going?

Things are bad enough with Japan, but I shudder to think of what has happened with all of the nuclear waste that has not yet been fully secured.

As far as I know it is going nowhere. Sad really, it would have had a huge impact on the economics of this state and would bring thousands of non gaming jobs to Southern Nevada. The waste has to go somewhere and climate, geology etc, Yucca Mountain really is/was ideal (at least as far as my limited knowledge goes)

Most people I know support Yucca Mountain, BUT let me elaborate. Everyone I know is in N. Nevada approx 500 miles away from Yucca Mountain so a little easier for us to say "sure, put the waste in S. Nevada"

 

[DisneyCP2002]

Several hundred miles thankfully. Growing up I was roughly 6 miles from the one in Arkansas.

 

[fitzy819]

While the drive to the closest nuclear power plant is about 45 min, it looks like distance wise it is only 10 or so miles away. Honestly though, there are so many military bases around my area that I would be more worried about an attack on our area in general causing mass causalities than anything related to the power plant.

 

[luvmy3]

Thanks. But a website that is "Representing the people and organisations of the global nuclear profession" is probably a little biased. Don't you think?

Any less biased than an anti-nuke activist's dd could be?

How about the NRC?
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

Again, those links weren't for you personally. Of course if you are willing to share what facts your mother knows that the rest of us don't and what the gov't won't admit, I'm sure there would be some interested in reading those too

 

[Holly]

25.81 miles.

 

[tlbwriter]

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist1.htm

This website is wrong - it says there is no nuclear power plant in Arkansas, which is not true.

 

[FireDancer]

I think alot of the anti-nuke activist crowd is firmly implanted towards anti-coal. Although in truth, they don't want us to build any type of power plant. Recent news articles about California I believe where they were going to build a huge new solar power plant in the desert, but surprise surprise, the anti-power environmentalists don't want it because it "harms" some endangered ant or so they claim. Truth is I suppose they want us to all go back to candles and heating oil, yet that would probably cause more global warming than coal plants. Nothing, absolutely nothing satisfies this crowd, they say NO to any proposal, because of their "concern for the environment."

Of course I guess they have 0 zero concern for the fact that when they manage to get thier way and close down 80% of the power plants, grandmas heating bill will be $2000 a month and she'll freeze to death, but I guess they will take solace in the fact that they successfully protected the habitat of the blue chiliean fruit nat.

Don't forget we have to tear down all the hydro-electrical plants because the dams ruin the ecosystem.

I'm with you, no matter what kind of power generation any particular plant uses there will be an impact and people who are more concerned with that impact than our power needs. People forget about supply and demand and since demand isn't going down anytime soon we can't just shut down plants and also reduce the supply without making electricity a luxury very few will be able to afford.

 

[saffron1000]

About 30 miles

 

[IdesOmarch]

Bravo and thank you for articulating how so many of us feel.

I have environmental concerns with some of these things as well, but you can't throw the baby out with the bath water. Sure I'd love to see Solar and Wind replace coal, but until we have the technology to do that, we have to have the other. You can't just shut it all off and cause everyone's power bills to skyrocket, when times are tight enough as it is. And the last straw for me was when they came out so hard against that big new solar plant in the desert in California that even Governor Schwarzenneger was mad about. I mean if you can't put solar power in the desert (where its ideal) where on earth do they want to put it?????

Someone needs to start an environmental group for the protection of humans, instead of the snails. To me, my grandma, and yours, is just slightly more important than a snail, I know I'm weird that way, but that's just how I roll.

 

[JCJRSmith]

I live in Mechanicsburg, PA, just outside the 10 mile radius of TMI. I work in Hershey

 

[RayaniFoxmur]

I grew up less than a mile from Davis-Besse. I have since moved away but m family all still lives there. Very small town... I would say probably 45 to 50% of adults that live there or in the surrounding work there.

On the upside they financed our school system for letting them build the plant in our backyard. My high school has 2 gyms, an outdoor track, a Broadway style/size theater and an indoor pool.

We were all sent 1 iodine pill per person after 9/11. I admit I rolled my eyes a bit. I figured I lived to close to survive an attack. It's interesting to me to be learning more about how things work now.

 

[moburg]

If Japan, the United States, or Europe retreats from nuclear power in the face of the current panic, the most likely alternative energy source is fossil fuel. And by any measure, fossil fuel is more dangerous. The sole fatal nuclear power accident of the last 40 years, Chernobyl, directly killed 31 people. By comparison, Switzerland's Paul Scherrer Institute calculates that from 1969 to 2000, more than 20,000 people died in severe accidents in the oil supply chain. More than 15,000 people died in severe accidents in the coal supply chain—11,000 in China alone. The rate of direct fatalities per unit of energy production is 18 times worse for oil than it is for nuclear power.

http://www.slate.com/id/2288212/


Just like the panic after an air crash, when air travel is still the safest form of travel, by far. Nuclear energy, with all its risks, is still safer.

 

[Snoozan]

I live about 10 miles(probably less than that 'as the crow flies')from the Vernon, VT nuke plant. This is one of the oldest nuke plants in the country and the governor of VT is trying hard to keep this plant from be allowing to be re-licensed. It's had it's share of underground leaks and other problems I'm sure that have not been broadcast. I already am a thyroid cancer survivor so who knows if living within 10 miles all my life from a nuclear plant played a part in that.

 

[luvmy3]

I just heard on the radio that someone (can't remember who) is calling for Indian Point to be shut down until it can be scientifically proven that it can withstand a magnitude 7 earthquake. The plant provides roughly 30% of NYC's power.

 

[disney1990]

We are about an hour from Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. Stocking Iodine wouldn't do me any good - I'm allergic to Iodine. :-(