How far away are you?

[Benn Gleck]

Not so fast there cowboy:) No matter you where you are the NRC transports stuff right down the highway in little well armed convoys. How do you think fuel rods and other material get "loaded" into new reactors and where do you think the spent ones go and how do they get there? Not to mention the waste. Don't forget about all them isotopes in sights, compasses etc. hmmm where are they and how do they get them? Yep lots of stuff floating around here at any given time.

WOW ! Never been called a cowboy before. :) Thanks! I hadn't given any thought to the transport of nuclear fuel/waste but I'd still rather be in the big sky country of the west and take my chances of being near an EMP disabled transport vehicle than to be anywhere near/downwind of a nuclear plant.

[KirkMcquest]

I'm 140.38 miles from the nearest nuclear plant. That should do it.

[birdseye.2]

Stay as far away as possible from nuclear sources, as well as your relative distance to main interstates and some main throughways, as a lot of "Hazardous" Waste and chemicals are limited in there choices of travel routes, and almost always on a timestamped time limit. Check to see how you are oriented to the source, such as, are you down wind (Based on the prevailing winds in the region), down stream, or lower elevation? All of which would of course be a negative. I can't find anything that says so, but in most instances with other harmful substances/chemicals/etc. they tend to settle, so therefore, being at a higher elevation would lend itself to being somewhat advantageous(unless of course you're down wind, then it's six of one half a dozen of the other), but I may be completely inaccurate so correct me if I'm wrong there.

Of course you can think, and consider, and say, "Well... a truck containing these rods could drive right by my house at 6,000 feet elevation out in BF nowhere, when the EMP goes off and disable it right in front of my house... then what do I do, turn it around and roll it down hill away from my house?" Of course we can't prepare for everything, and there is always something unforseeable that could happen, such as an 8.2 or greater earthquake's focus centered directly under your house, boy would that feel good underground(Check your area here: http://geohazards.usgs.gov/qfaults/map.php). But we can do the best with what information we do have, the time we have, and the long-suffering guidance, kindness, and care that God gives us each and every day. Into His hands we lend our lives that He may guide provide and abide in all of us till His second coming and all of this is at an end.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

No matter you where you are the NRC transports stuff right down the highway in little well armed convoys. How do you think fuel rods and other material get "loaded" into new reactors and where do you think the spent ones go and how do they get there?

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/894695--drivers-of-nuclear-weapons-got-drunk-on-the-job-report

Yep never off course and always on duty. It would be to hard for a crazy to get them and make stuff. LOL

[sirhuntalot1]

I have looked at nuclear facilities in the past and would like to note there is a website that shows the fallout patterns for all those locations winds moving from west to east really spread the fallout over huge areas. It wont be pretty

[Bearman202]

Thanks, Matt. That's reassuring....NOT!

[biathlon]

I live right over the hill from the largest bullseye on earth. FE Warren Air Force Base! The largest volcano on earth is at the other end of the state too!