Comments on: Where is the nearest nuclear power plant to my house? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: LIZ https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500678 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:57:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500678 How close is a nuckear power plant to my house. My zip code 48275

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500677 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:03:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500677 Ken: You are correct and don’t even have to guess, they actually tell us. Only operating commercial nuclear power generation plants.

What are the snake river plain reactors for?

]]> By: Ken https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500676 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:53:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500676 I’m going to just guess that map only shows operating commercial nuclear power generation plants. It shows nothing in Idaho, despite the fact that there are several operating reactors of varying size and type at the INL in the middle of the Snake River Plain.

]]> By: Rufus https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500675 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:20:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500675 I’m just over 7 miles from the nearest nuclear reactor,
just under 12 miles from the nearest fission reactor and
about 54 miles from the nearest fission power station.

I’m sure that the building that I work in has KI solution somewhere, probably in the one of the chemical stores (not to mention probably more in the teaching labs)

]]> By: tybee https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500674 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:46:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500674 dunno if i’m closer to the Savannah River Site or real close to the Tybee Bomb…

(tybee bomb: http://www.tybeetyme.com/tb/index.htm )

(Savannah River Site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_River_Site)

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500673 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:27:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500673 Spanish, sorry, Alex FTW.

Unless we have someone from Los Alamos?

]]> By: Unistrut https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500672 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:32:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500672 I’m about sixty miles from San Onofre. Not sure which way the wind blows.

I’ve got iodine tablets, but that’s just a coincidence. I needed some lead sheet for a project and the store I got it from also had Iodine tablets. I’d been playing a lot of Fallout 3 at the time and couldn’t resist my own bottle of Rad-X.

]]> By: alex.besogonov https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500671 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:46:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500671 Chernobyl power plant is about 60 km from here. A small research reactor is 1 km from here.

I just love this blue Cherenkov glow in the morning!

]]> By: Spanish Inquisitor https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500670 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:22:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500670 I know which is closest to me. Three Mile Island, Middletown, PA

Fortunately, they’re down to one reactor, but even one isn’t all that reassuring.

]]> By: Sam N https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500669 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:56:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/16/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p/#comment-500669 Could have guessed the Monticello plant was closest. Though, I’ve got to say, Minnesota is a pretty damn safe place to put a nuclear plant in terms of natural disasters. There’s no way a tornado is taking that thing down.

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