How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

[Odin]

Originally Posted by RobertSmalls

There's also a disproportionate number in the South. Why do they like nuclear?

after living on the Georgia coast for three years you realize every summer the air gets very stagnate and hazy, and when the choice is coal which adds to the haze or nuclear which doesn't i think most people would like nuclear more. just what i always figured there are probably plenty of other reasons

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by RobertSmalls

It's a sign that Europeans do not think of themselves as Europeans, but rather as Belgians (or Flemish and Walloons), French, etc.

That's indeed the case.

Anyway, here's a map. US reactors are primarily located on the outskirts of population centers.

When I look at that map, I see a lot of reactors near state borders.
It'd be interesting to see it in more detail.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by euromodder

When I look at that map, I see a lot of reactors near state borders.

Because in a lot of cases the borders are rivers & lakes, which are handy for cooling water?

[gone-ot]

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

[cfg83]

jamesqf -

Originally Posted by jamesqf

Because in a lot of cases the borders are rivers & lakes, which are handy for cooling water?

I wasn't correlating borders to rivers, but I agree that the French nuclear reactors use rivers :

Nuclear Power in France | French Nuclear Energy



CarloSW2

[gone-ot]

...and, if you consult the geologists, you'll find that many rivers "follow" the cracks in the earth created by plate-boundaries and geologic fault lines!

[Odin]

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.

seems like thats a dumb idea, do they truck in the water? is it a well? wouldn't you risk running dry?

[RobertSmalls]

Originally Posted by jamesqf

Because in a lot of cases the borders are rivers & lakes, which are handy for cooling water?

They are also convenient places to locate cities.

When you look at a squiggly state border in the US, it's not based on centuries of border disputes, but natural geography. I think there are four borders based on mountain ranges (WV, TN, KY, MT), and literally all the rest of the squiggly ones follow rivers.

Long, straight borders, anywhere in the world, happen when the people drawing the borders view the lands as being nearly completely empty.

Btw, Teleman, I hope you know that most of the world's rivers don't follow fault lines. Rivers are actually very short-lived, among geologic entities. They are wiped out by glaciation. After 10k years of flooding, meandering, and depositing silt, they may begin to cut a new path to the sea.

Do you know why endoheric basins only form in dry regions?

[cfg83]

Odin -

Originally Posted by Odin

seems like thats a dumb idea, do they truck in the water? is it a well? wouldn't you risk running dry?

Made me look :

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Due to its location in the Arizona desert, Palo Verde is the only nuclear generating facility in the world that is not located adjacent to a large body of above-ground water. The facility evaporates water from the treated sewage of several nearby municipalities to meet its cooling needs. 20 billion US gallons (76,000,000 m^3) of treated water are evaporated each year. This water represents about 25% of the annual overdraft of the Arizona Department of Water Resources Phoenix Active Management Area. At the nuclear plant site, the wastewater is further treated and stored in an 80 acre (324,000 m^2) reservoir for use in the plant's cooling towers.

CarloSW2

[gone-ot]

...at least the effluent (gray) water evaporates "quickly" due to the "...dry heat..." (ha,ha).