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Thread #68473 Message #1153562
Posted By: Rapparee
03-Apr-04 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Do you live near a nuclear plant?
Subject: RE: BS: Do you live near a nuclear plant?
Why, no.
I live near about a dozen, including EBR-1. Really. And a LOT of the nuclear waste shipped from around the US.
You see, about 50 miles away -- an easy drive -- is INEEL.
People around here don't worry much about it. Oh, sure, during the summer a couple of left-over WW2 500 pound bombs might spontaeously detonate, but they're way way out in the sagebrush and sand and they do little but kick up dust. And periodically a drunk will make a wrong turn and try to run a security barrier (one word about that: don't!).
This place if BIG! Back in the late '40s they exploded 250,000 pounds of TNT there -- the explosion was heard in Boise, 234 miles away. BIG.
No, radioactives DO NOT pass through the towns around here!