How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

  CNN Money has a page and a tool that will tell you how close your home is to a nuclear power plant.  CNN Money Power Plant Page

  You put in your ZIP code and it shows a map and tells you the closest plants.  In my case I live in Fort Worth (Texas) and my ZIP code is:  76116.

  I live near the following nuclear power plants;  Comanche Peak 1 and 2 (35 miles), South Texas 1 and 2 (283 miles), Arkansas Nuclear 1 and 2 (300 miles), Grand Gulf 1 (376 miles) and River Bend 1 (384 miles).
 

“If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.”

 

I guess you have to wonder about the people in the control rooms.  How much education do they have?  Where did they get their training?  I hope they had good teachers.  How good is the security for these plants? 
  I wonder if for all new plants if no one should live within 50 miles of the plant?

  Something to think about.  I just read or heard on TV that, here in the United States, 20 new nuclear power plants will come online in a few years. 

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I live in 61102

[Jim Howard]

Wonderful! You are 12 miles from Byron 1 and 2. Then Quad Cities 1 and 2 (68 miles), La Salle 1 and 2 (72 miles), Dresden 2 and 3 (74) miles and Braidwood 1 and 2 (83 miles)!
Well I hope, at least, you get cheap electric power or I hope you got family working at one of the plants and making good money.