How would you feel if a nuclear reactor was being built a few miles from your home?

Question

How would you feel if a nuclear reactor was being built a few miles from your home?

Answer 1

I would try and move. I would'nt want to be around that, even if there was a slim chance of something going wrong, there is still a chance.

Answer 2

Depends on if my power bill goes up or down.

Answer 3

I'd like it a lot if they'd build one right on top of where my house is right now...then I could sell it for a lot of money and move far, far away...lol...

Answer 4

Safe. There is one near where I live.

A few miles or a hundred would make little difference in a meltdown situation.

Answer 5

I currently live about 15 miles from a plant (Sharron Harris, NC) and besides that extra arm growing out of my forehead, I have had no problem with it.

Answer 6

move to another town...it's like living in a place while you fellas rot.

Answer 7

I'd be OK with it the chances of an nuclear accident are minimal  and because of fear mongering politicians no get to see the truth nuclear power plants are very safe thanks to safety protocols from the government the chance of a nuclear accident is the same as a meteorite killing someone while there asleep

Answer 8

If we could eliminate the ongoing cost on elec tricity, by using magnetic motors, do a search for more into, we wouldn't need to build anymore. But since the government relies on our taxes. this won't happen.

Answer 9

bad XD

Answer 10

Cancerous

Hallelujah Holla Back

Answer 11

i lived within FEET of a nuclear reactor.

so have a lot of ex navy personal.

big deal.

the only people that don't like it are the far left radicals

and they are the ones that put out all the bull.

Answer 12

I'd rather live near a nuke plant than a wind farm or oil refinery.  Nuclear accidents in North America have never caused any injuries or property damage (Three Mile Island didn't hurt anyone and that's about as bad as it gets), but collapsing wind turbines wreak devastation.

Answer 13

Yeah, I want a nuclear power plant in my neighborhood too. Because electricity is my friend.

Answer 14

Great, cheap clean energy. Maybe my bills would be less.

If we don't want these in our back yards, maybe we should all Stop Consuming So Much Energy in the first place.

Answer 15

Great.  Only fools are scared of modern technology, after all, Nuclear Power plants are safer than Ted Kennedy's car!

Answer 16

I would have no issue with it at all,   Most who say they would just really have no clue how safe this form of energy is.  they are also the same people who want everyone to sit in the dark, cold of a powerless cave,

Answer 17

Nuclear power will make a comeback as there are few alternatives that have the capacity to deal with the demands of today.

Answer 18

I live near one, about 3 miles as the crow flies.  Indian Point.

Lets face it, we will have to either build Nuclear power plants to meet our growing energy needs or we can:

Put dams on every river and stream

Burn oil

Burn coal.

So, the only way we can reasonably expect to meet the growing energy needs of the entire country is to build nuclear power plants or significantly change our energy consumption habits.

Western Europe has many nuclear power plants, all of which are functioning well and operating safely and helping to meet their energy needs.

To talk about a national energy policy for the US and to not have Nuclear energy as part of the policy and the strategy (along with conservation and other alternative energy sources) would be irresponsible, negligent and avoiding the realities of our energy needs.

Answer 19

I live in Idaho.  They are talking about building the first nuclear plant built in more than 30 years in my state.  Near Mountain Home, Idaho.

That's about 200 miles from me.  The huge problem is that puts me 200 miles DOWNWIND from the nuclear reactor.  There is not a single nuclear reactor, in a single country that has not had some sort of contamination leak.  Very often people don't get to hear about until years after the fact.

We live/work/own a permaculture farm.  We have over 100 animals on our farm.  We have made MAJOR improvements to the soil.  My husbands father built the house we live in, himself in the 1970's (hubby purchased the farm from his parents).  

How much do we dislike the idea of being downwind of a nuclear reactor?  So much so, that we are going to purchase land elsewhere, and put an entire mountain range between us, and the reactor.  We are going to move an entire farm, of over 100 animals, and all the equipment that goes along with running a farm.  We are going to leave behind all of our fencing, and soil improvements.  We are going to leave behind a home that was constructed from the ground up by my husbands father.

By the way, 200 miles may sound like a long ways to some people, but if you understand how the wind works and is funneled by the mountains around here, 200 miles is nothing.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Husband works on the commercial wind turbines

Answer 20

I think I'd go radioactive — and then thermonuclear...