{"id":24906,"date":"2011-03-16T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/16\/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:07:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:07:26","slug":"where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the nearest nuclear power plant to my house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not intended to incite panic&#8230; for panic, see the post &#8220;Where is the nearest nuclear power plant to my house that is currently melting down!!!11!!.&#8221;  The purpose of this post is to facilitate addressing a question we&#8217;ve been discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laden.greg\">on my facebook page<\/a>: If you lived near a nuke plant, would you routinely stock a reasonable supply of iodine\/iodide tablets to take, just in case, and why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.gov\/info-finder\/reactor\/\">click here<\/a>.   That&#8217;s the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and they are there to help you find out where your nearest operating nuke plant is.  I don&#8217;t know about the non-operating ones and why that is not included.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest one to me is in Monticello, and it&#8217;s pretty darn close.  That&#8217;s 37 miles as one drives, but closer to 30 as the wind blows, and it is directly up wind most of the time. Ruh roh.  Anybody want to go in with me on some bulk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006NT3A\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006NT3A\">Potassium Iodide Tablets<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00006NT3A\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not intended to incite panic&#8230; for panic, see the post &#8220;Where is the nearest nuclear power plant to my house that is currently melting down!!!11!!.&#8221; The purpose of this post is to facilitate addressing a question we&#8217;ve been discussing on my facebook page: If you lived near a nuke plant, would you routinely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/where-is-the-nearest-nuclear-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where is the nearest nuclear power plant to my house?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6tI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}