Would you mind if someone proposed building a nuclear reactor 30 miles from your home?

[NNN0LHI]

Poll question: Would you mind if someone proposed building a nuclear reactor 30 miles from your home?

[HopeHoops]

1. Probably not - I've already got TMI 12 miles away.

I doubt it would happen anyway - no need on our grid.

[petronius]

14. Me too (DCPP) - if they'll trade building one 30 miles away for tearing down

the one 12 miles away, I'd be all for it...:)

[HopeHoops]

15. You're still fucked in a meltdown situation. The 10 mile thing is bullshit.

I worked in nuke plants in '85 (computer shit, but I was in the control rooms, knew the drills, and had to go through suit-up training). The things are disasters waiting to happen - all of them.

[starroute]

33. I'm 19 miles from Limerick

Eastern Pennsylvania is not a happy place, nuclear plant-wise. The one saving grace is that you can head north pretty quickly, without having to get across any bridges or other bottlenecks.

[bbinacan]

2. No, I have one about

20 miles away.

[mike_c]

3. I should say that there is one within 30 miles of my home...

...although it's currently decommissioned and used primarily for storing spent fuel, and it's my understanding that it's about as safe as it can be made. More info @ link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant.

[Wilms]

4. Too late.

[robinlynne]

8. holy shit. I'm moving to Wyoming.

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. That's totally what I was thinking.

[TheWraith]

13. That map is ludicrous. It has NO scientific basis.

The radiological exclusion zone around Chernobyl is 19 miles. Those bubbles are hundreds of miles across.

[enough]

29. Perhaps you prefer this map:

http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html

[yawnmaster]

31. hey if you zoom that map all the way out, there isn't any safe place in the US!! eom

[enough]

28. Great map. I just wish there was some way to wake up the populace, other than a

major catastrophe with a plant on US soil. For a while I thought Fukushima would do it, but it's not happening.

[Drew Richards]

32. HAHAH Guess what is in MT WY CO and NM

ICBM Facilities....hahaha your dead anywhere.

[gateley]

5. I'm at the point where I mind building nuclear reactors anywhere on the PLANET! nt

[TheWraith]

6. Not in the least.

I already have one about 50 miles from my home, and I'm glad for it. It provides half of my green energy, the other half coming from Niagara Falls.

[drmeow]

7. I'm already screwed

There's one less than 10 miles from me.

[Richard D]

9. 30 is way too close

300 also.
3000 - still too close
30,000 - well, maybe.

[fascisthunter]

10. nah.... the ever possibility of a meltdown is so much fun

it would give me a jumpstart to every morning. It would cure my addiction to coffee.

[Chorophyll]

11. I've got one already - Indian Point in New York.

Not happy about it AT ALL.

[jtrockville]

24. ^ the most at-risk nuke in the US

[Chorophyll]

42. Yup. Poorly located in more ways than one. nt

[NutmegYankee]

12. I wouldn't mind.

I already live 12 miles from an operating nuclear power plant. A new reactor would have better safety systems and more robust containment. In that sense, it would be an improvement over the 35 year-old reactors nearby.

[NNN0LHI]

21. We have more here in Illinois than any other single state

I sure do not want any more of them here.

Don

[KamaAina]

16. I most certainly would

not out of NIMBY- or BANANAism, but because to do so within 30 miles of the tenth-largest city in the country would be monumental folly.

[George Wythe]

17. Probably not, but one of the problems is that we haven't built one since 1977.

As a result, our engineering skills are a bit rusty.

Still, nuclear is much cleaner than coal and we desperately need to expand our power generating capacity.

[MineralMan]

18. I did mind when they built Diablo Canyon about 6 air miles

from my house. I protested. I joined a group that were interveners and studied the plant designs and testified at public hearings. Still, they built the plant.

[enough]

19. Yes, and I spent a lot of time several decades ago trying to stop the one proposed and built in my

neighborhood. To no avail.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. This is an earthquake zone.

Absolutely I would mind. Those nuclear plants down in California are too close for me.

[intheflow]

25. Seriously!

Anyone who would support nuclear power from Baja Mexico to Alaska is outta their minds. Waaaay too much seismic activity! :scared:

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. Why not ? Already have one closer that that.

:shrug:

[Odin2005]

23. No.

[PufPuf23]

26. We do not have the technology or social resilance to support

current fission technology.

I am all for research but the current model does not work because of associated WMD and time risk of outlier events versus engineered life and social stability.

I do not believe government nor institutions nor nuclear industry are in a position to be honest about the risks.

[Lugnut]

27. I have one less than 30 miles from my house.

I didn't want it back when they built the thing but nobody listened to me or the other protestors at the time.

[SidDithers]

30. No. A new reactor would be much safer and better designed...

Than the 40 year-old one that's 50 miles away right now.

Sid

[csziggy]

34. A few years ago a "clean coal" plant was planned

About a hundred miles from here. The shit hit the fan - local activists went out and fought against the plant.

I can imagine how much they would fight a nuclear power plant near here. Now, we do have some nuclear labs around here, but frankly I am not sure what they are doing these days.

http://www.physics.fsu.edu/nuclear/foxlab/nuclear-foxlab.html
http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/usershub/scientificdivisions/nmr/index.html

[Hippo_Tron]

35. Nope, my odds of dying in a car crash are much higher

[NNN0LHI]

37. What's the odds that a car accident would leave 100's of square miles uninhabitable for decades?

[Hippo_Tron]

38. Why should I care if it's 100 square miles near my house vs 100 sq miles near somebody else's house

[Zoeisright]

41. Excellent point. And it would be thousands of years.

Unfortunately, some people just don't want to think about it.

[lonestarnot]

36. I opposed the one they built 50 miles from my house. Upwind too.

[xmas74]

39. Don't really care.

It'll match all the weapons within just a couple of miles from my house. We were on the strike zone list for all those years for a darn good reason.

[Johonny]

43. house? Who can afford a house these days