How close to a nuclear reactor do you live?

[mctiny]

8 miles

I think I was less than that distance to this place, not a nuclear power plant but pretty deadly.


Now I'm 164 km.

 

[BAppleton]

i dont live near one but go fishing at a power station every other weekend and I dont have radiation posioning. I dont think what has happened in Japan should stop more being built, when the oil is gone we will need energy and more nuclear is the only viable option. Japan built theres in dangerous places which should never have been allowed

 

[Linda]

I live 5 miles away from one

 

[yoyo50]

This house was for sale few years back with a lovely view of Dungeness!

 

[Kristoph]

6 miles.

Eating a banana a year will give you a higher dose of radiation than living next to a nuclear powerstation.

Better stop eating bananas!

 

[john_s]

Something like 20 miles from the nearest reactor.

About 0.75 mile from a nuclear fuel manufacturing site.

 

[GolfNovember90]

Just remembed we have a decomissioned one at trawsfynnydd thats about 20 miles away aswell

 

["andy"]

good stats in the telegraph . they also sort of apologised for how journalists acted like greenpeace throughout the whole japan thing.

Nuclear fatalities in the last ten years: 7

Wind farm fatalities in the last ten years: 44.

In those ten years nuclear provided thirty times the energy of wind.

 

[wez130]

4 miles as the crow flies from Hartlepool

 

[mrbios]

good stats in the telegraph . they also sort of apologised for how journalists acted like greenpeace throughout the whole japan thing.

Curious to find out how exactly people died (albeit possibily a bit direspectful) in each? How does a windfarm kill someone?

 

[zetec452]

good stats in the telegraph . they also sort of apologised for how journalists acted like greenpeace throughout the whole japan thing.

Do you have a link to the article? Sounds interesting (not people getting killed that is).

 

[breadturbo]

im sat smack int eh middle of a 10mile ring encompassing ferrybridge, eggborough and drax (biggest station in UK) power stations burning over 2000!! tonnes of coal per HOUR

id say a nuke plant would be much healthier for me than that wouldnt you?

(but then those 3 combined are about 8000mw, thats a lorra nuke plants)

 

[zetec452]

Curious to find out how exactly people died (albeit possibily a bit direspectful) in each? How does a windfarm kill someone?

Could be in the construction and commissioning phases. They don't look to easy to put together.

 

[tang0]

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