How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

[Joenavy85]

gray water, brown water ........it all stinks

[metroschultz]

37 miles from here to Surry 1&2

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...the 3 LARGE Palo Verde reactors here in AZ are ~60 miles west of Phoenix, basically smack-daub in the middle of the desert.

Sure, and you can build a closed-cycle cooling system for a nuclear plant, it's just cheaper to use a handy river, lake, or ocean. But of course if you're going to build one anywhere near Phoenix, those are not exactly options :-)

You also need to remember that coal-fired plants (and non gas turbine natural gas fired ones) also need cooling. If you had a map of the locations of larger conventional plants, I wouldn't be surprised to see that they have a similar distribution to nuclear.

[NachtRitter]

I'm more concerned about where the closest coal-fired plant would be than where the nearest nuclear plant would be.

[RobertSmalls]

Or for a Google Map, click on your state in the link I posted earlier: Category:Existing coal plants in the United States - SourceWatch