Wanna find the nearest nuclear waste route to your house? SCARY!

[XZeroII]

I live 2 miles from a "proposed" route. Not sure what they mean by that, but they seem to go by train tracks and I'm about 2 miles from train tracks.

 

[HombrePequeno]

A nuclear waste route can't be too far considering Hanford is only a hop, skip, and a 125 mile jump away. I know I'm scared.

 

[Aves]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 65.2 miles
Distance from Browns Ferry, the nearest waste source: 80.6 miles


I'm moving in August and the info for that address is:


Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 77.7 miles
Distance from Browns Ferry, the nearest waste source: 85.2 miles



Not that it matters. I work 5 minutes from a Chemical Weapons incinerator.

 

[rh71]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 17.2 miles
Distance from Indian Point, the nearest waste source: 41.4 miles

(Long Island, NY)

 

[bigdog1218]

My home in NY

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 7.0 miles
Distance from Indian Point, the nearest waste source: 8.1 miles

School in Boston

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 10.3 miles
Distance from Pilgrim, the nearest waste source: 37.4 miles

 

[Stratum9]

Looks like I'll be safe:

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 1,522.0 miles
Distance from Trojan, the nearest waste source: 1,522.0 miles

 

[loup garou]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 1.2 miles
Distance from Waterford, the nearest waste source: 21.1 miles

Lucky me.

 

[aphex]

Uhhhh, i think i win.

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 0.0 miles

 

[killface]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
What a bunch of whiny bitches.

amish

I don't see anyone whining.

 

[hoihtah]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 14.5 miles
Distance from Seabrook, the nearest waste source: 34.0 miles


i think i'm good.

 

[Stratum9]

Originally posted by: aphexII
Uhhhh, i think i win.

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 0.0 miles

Looks like I win for living the safest distance and you win for living the most dangerous distance.

Your prize: a slow and painful death.

 

[Bulldog7000]

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Originally posted by: aphexII
Uhhhh, i think i win.

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 0.0 miles
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Looks like I win for living the safest distance and you win for living the most dangerous distance.

Your prize: a slow and painful death.

So how far are you from the source?

BDOG

 

[woodly6]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 0.3 miles
Distance from Rancho Seco, the nearest waste source: 20.3 miles

Damn...oh well, at least I will glow when Im dead.

 

[sheselectric]

My apartment's about 7 miles away from nuclear waste and my parents' house is over 10 miles away. Looks like I'm safe, and I have no reason to care about this issue.

 

[GT1999]

I've probably got everybody beat. I'm from Morris, IL. You know, the home of one of the first ever Nuclear Power Plants. This area is one of the most concentrated areas of Nuclear Power Plants I believe. Three nuclear plants within something like a 60 mile radius with a 4th being planned from what I hear.

There's one in Zion, Dresden here by Morris and one in Braidwood.

I'm right off of I-80 here, which is supposed to be the biggest route for the waste to travel on. 80 is .3 miles .. it goes right through Morris here. In addition it said I was 8 miles from Dresden, the plant.

Some other information you guys might be interested in hearing. I recently completed a environmental science course here at college and my professor hinted to us how they plan on shipping this waste. They are going to use semi-trucks (wide load) shipping the waste with huge cement reinforcement to help stop the radiation supposedly. Despite this, and according to the professor, the radiation coming from these trucks is equivelent to (not sure amount) of an X-Ray.

Wow, great news to me.. I travel over an hour on I-80 each day going to school and back total. :Q

 

[Pliablemoose]

Anyone aware that they store low level nuclear waste in hospitals because of the expense of disposing of it & the fact no one wants to transport it or store it?

 

[Tiger]

More scare tactics from the environmentalist wacko left.
They don't just load a few rusting 55ga. drums on the back of Bubba's truck ond go scooping the loop with it. The transport systems designed to move the waste are some of the most accident proof systems ever designed. You ought to see what they do to them down at Sandia labs in N.M.

 

[GT1999]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Anyone aware that they store low level nuclear waste in hospitals because of the expense of disposing of it & the fact no one wants to transport it or store it?

That's most likely just a rumor. It's much cheaper to store it in-house at nuclear facilities instead than take it in and out of a hospital all the time...

That's kind of funny actually.

 

[BatmanNate]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 89.4 miles
Distance from Trojan, the nearest waste source: 94.0 miles

 

[Tiger]

Geekish Thoughts,
Your professor is wrong, plain and simple.

 

[GT1999]

Originally posted by: Tiger
Geekish Thoughts,
Your professor is wrong, plain and simple.

... he was probably trying to scare the living sh!t out of us and make us 'care more about the environment'


Edit: Since you sound like you know a lot about this subject Tiger, why don't you inform us of how they plan on shipping it then?

 

[Pliablemoose]

I work in a hospital, and confirmed it with the Chief of Radiology, it's not a rumor that large hospitals store their own waste to save money. We're building a new containment area...

 

[Tiger]

They will ship it in hardened casks on flatbed trucks and railcars.
Those casks have been designed to survive a fully loaded F4 fighter being flown into them at 500mph. They would have survived the WTC. The video of the tests down at Sandia labs is damn impressive.

 

[Electrode]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 42.9 miles
Distance from Palisades, the nearest waste source: 48.0 miles


Well, I still die if Chicago gets nuked...

 

[ElFenix]

Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 43.1 miles
Distance from Comanche Peak, the nearest waste source: 137.9 miles