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Originally posted by azureskys
What Is going on ??
[...]
Fewer people being evacuated early on !
No more practicing for the possible release of notable amounts of radiation.
Local communities can practice all they want but the Fed.does not deem it necessary
for them to rehearse the drills more often than ever 8 years.
Every 8 years is enough practice ! What ?
Originally posted by seamus
Originally posted by azureskys
What Is going on ??
[...]
Fewer people being evacuated early on !
No more practicing for the possible release of notable amounts of radiation.
Local communities can practice all they want but the Fed.does not deem it necessary
for them to rehearse the drills more often than ever 8 years.
Every 8 years is enough practice ! What ?
The evac point for my father's location was moved a couple of years ago to a school that sits directly on a rail line.
What kind of practice do you need to go to the evac point and be herded into cattle cars?
everyone in the area gets a calendar every year that has the pertinent information in it. If you don't read the (tiny amount of) mail from the local nuke plant, shame on you.
According to data provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
approximately 49 mi l l ion Americans receive their drinking water from sources
within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant—the “ingestion pathway emergency planning zone” used.
Table 1: Top 10 Nuclear Plants by Population Receiving Drinking Water from Intakes
within 50 Miles
Rank Plant State Total Population
1 Indian Point New York 11,324,636
2 Seabrook New Hampshire 3,921,516
3 Limerick Pennsylvania 3,901,396
4 Vermont Yankee Vermont 3,114,882
5 Salem / Hope Creek New Jersey 2,900,971
6 San Onofre California 2,295,738
7 Perry Ohio 2,132,775
8 Beaver Valley Pennsylvania 1,878,905
9 Shearon Harris North Carolina 1,686,425
10 McGuire North Carolina 1,646,516
Table 2: Top 10 Nuclear Plants by Population Receiving Drinking Water from Intakes
within 12.4 Miles (20 km)
Rank Plant State Total Population
1 Indian Point New York 8,359,730
2 Limerick Pennsylvania 923,538
3 McGuire North Carolina 895,538
4 Surry Virginia 422,300
5 Oconee South Carolina 378,899
6 Three Mile Island Pennsylvania 262,149
7 Peach Bottom Pennsylvania 243,368
8 Shearon Harris North Carolina 206,414
9 Waterford Louisiana 103,818
10 Beaver Valley Pennsylvania 80,626
Table 3: Ten Largest Drinking Water Systems with Intakes within 50 Miles and 12.4
Miles (20 km) of Nuclear Plants
20 km 50 miles
20 km 50 miles
1 New York City System NY 8,000,000 New York City System NY 8,000,000
2 Aqua Pennsylvania Main System MWRA
(Philadelphia suburbs) PA 820,000 (Boston and Southeastern MA) MA 2,360,000
3 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility NC 774,331 Philadelphia Water Department PA 1,600,000
4 City of Newport News VA 406,000 Cleveland Public Water System OH 1,500,000
5 Greenville Water System SC 345,817 City of San Diego CA 1,266,731
6 United Water of New York
(Rockland County) NY 270,000 City of Detroit MI 899,387
Aqua Pennsylvania Main System
7 Town of Cary NC 149,000 (Philadelphia Suburbs) PA 820,000
8 Chester Water Authority PA 124,649 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility NC 774,331
9 Harford County D.P.W. MD 104,567 United Water NJ (Bergen County) NJ 773,163
10 United Water of Pennsylvania
(Dauphin County) PA 97,645 City of Fort Worth TX 727,575