How close to a nuclear reactor do you live?

Monkeh · 21 Mar 2011 at 02:36

Less than 3 miles from one, doesn't bother me a bit. To be frank I'd be more concerned with the local petrochemical processing works cooking off than a meltdown any day.

Rroff · 21 Mar 2011 at 02:39

35 miles from one power plant, and 2 (different) research reactors ~15 miles away one of which is in the final stages of defueling. Doesn't really bother me.

KnightsWhoSayNi · 21 Mar 2011 at 02:41

Any extra arms or anything yet?

Dave85 · 21 Mar 2011 at 02:55

Not that far as the crow flies about 40 miles I think.

me227 · 21 Mar 2011 at 03:09

Wow, 31 miles away. Can't say them i'm worried though. I doubt Edinburgh is going to get an earthquake and tsunami anytime soon.

loltim · 21 Mar 2011 at 03:10

The one in Derby I guess, meh.

Tonyator · 21 Mar 2011 at 03:50

40 miles as the crow flies.... Am I worried... No.

ChrisJSY · 21 Mar 2011 at 04:30

About 30-40miles hard to say, it's supplied offshore from france.

Unluckyalf · 21 Mar 2011 at 04:34

1954 miles....

I should be safe so long as the wind doesnt blow this way

wo0kie · 21 Mar 2011 at 05:02

Unluckyalf said:
1954 miles....

I should be safe so long as the wind doesnt blow this way

The ones in Indo are closer than Sydney.

Thunderbolt · 21 Mar 2011 at 05:17

Oldbury <8 miles

Steam seen coming out of Oldbury power station reactor

Really not bothered.

Castiel · 21 Mar 2011 at 05:57

How close I am to a nuclear reactor all depends upon what kind of mood the wife happens to be in.... :eek:

craptakular · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:17

About 20miles away from Sizewell. Not scared cos we got no earthquakes yo. summit needs to power my eggbox 360 and pos 3.

Glaucus · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:23

About 13miles (oldbury)

Not concerned in the slightest. To much ignorance and scaremongering.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/nuclear.radiophobia/index.html?eref=edition

So what are the available facts as they stand right now? Take a comparison with Chernobyl.

In the Soviet Union, reactor workers died within weeks. In the final phase of that disaster, radiation hit levels of 6,000 millisieverts per hour. Fukushima Daiichi's peak has been 400 millisieverts per hour, and that's at the red hot center of the plant itself.

According to the World Nuclear Association, you need exposure to 1,000 millisieverts per hour before suffering radiation sickness.

Even for the heroic workers still in the plant, prolonged exposure, says Polanski, could make them sick, but it will not kill them.

"No, not at all. Four hundred millisieverts sounds scary, but it's not," he says.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/ - better sized pic.

GWillow · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:31

Approximately 5 miles from Dungeness and probably not a whole lot further from numerous French reactors.

PapaLazaru · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:44

Well, I am not that close to a reactor, but the fact that I live less than a quarter of a mile from http://www.awe.co.uk/, I am probably in the most dangerous place out of you all.

Lakeland · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:47

4 miles by road, I think I'm winning so far, wheeeeee.

xb8browney · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:55

30miles

GTAMADDOG · 21 Mar 2011 at 07:56

Oldbury, probably. Also Berkeley, but that has been decommissioned. I can see them over the River Severn from my house, it's never really bothered me.

Cosimo · 21 Mar 2011 at 08:11

70 miles.