If you think of nuclear reactors as something far away,
or as much safer than Fukushima,
you’re in for a surprise.
The most notorious reactors are the ones not yet built,
units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle near Augusta and their
famous financial boondoggle.
But others are closer, older, and more numerous than you may know.
Here’s a map by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
That map’s not clickable, so here’s a table,
selected from an
NRC table
by distance from Valdosta:
| Name | Owner | Where | Distance
from
Valdosta |
| Hatch 1 & 2* |
SNOC |
11 miles N of Baxley, GA |
100 miles |
| Farley 1 & 2 | SNOC |
18 miles SE of Dothan, AL |
125 miles |
| Crystal River 3
|
PGN |
80 miles N of Tampa, FL
|
160 miles
|
| Vogtle 1 & 2 |
SNOC |
26 miles SE of Augusta, GA |
200 miles |
| Summer |
SCEG |
26 miles NW of Columbia, SC |
300 miles |
| Saint Lucie 1 & 2 |
FPL |
10 miles SE of Ft. Pierce, FL |
325 miles |
| Oconee 1,2,3 |
Duke |
30 miles W of Greenville, SC |
330 miles |
| Robinson 2 |
PGN |
26 miles NW of Florence, SC |
350 miles |
| Sequoya 1 & 2 |
TVA |
16 miles NE of Chattanooga, TN |
360 miles |
| Catawba 1 & 2 |
Duke |
18 miles S of Charlotte, NC |
390 miles |
| McGuire 1 & 2 |
Duke |
17 miles N of Charlotte, NC |
410 miles |
| Browns Ferry 1,2,3* |
TVA |
32 miles W of Huntsville, AL |
410 miles |
| Turkey Point 3 & 4 |
FPL |
20 miles S of Miami, FL |
440 miles |
| Brunswick 1 & 2* |
PGN |
40 miles S of Wilmington, NC |
480 miles |
| Waterford 3 |
Entergy |
25 miles W of New Orleans, LA |
495 miles |
| Shearon Harris 1 |
PGN |
20 miles SW of Raleigh, NC |
498 miles |
|
* GE Mark I;
Duke: Duke Energy Power Company, LLC;
Entergy: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.;
FPL: Florida Power & Light Co.;
PGN: Progress Energy;
SCEG: South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.;
SNOC: Southern Nuclear Operating Company;
TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority
|
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Drugs at Saint Lucie in Florida
and alcohol at Nine Mile Point 1 in New York and
at Braidwood in Illinois.
And four workers injured at Callaway in Missouri.
Apparently nuke employees can get terminated for off-site
recreational drug use, but not for fires or broken equipment.