If they finally go through with the Yucca Mountain waste storage plans they’re going to have to transport the nuclear wasteall across the nation to Southern Nevada. The wonderful folks at www.mapscience.org will figure out how close these transports will come to your house in a few seconds. Me, I’m 1.5 miles from one of the transports, and they’re actually storing waste merely 23 miles south of me :eek:. So how far are you from the trail of nuclear waste? I’m sure there are some people who beat me.
This isn’t where I live, but it’s where my family used to live before we moved:
0.3 miles from the transports, and 10.6 miles from the nearest source. FYI, this was in a town in Iowa along the Mississippi.
I’m not really worried about it (even if I still lived there). Not even enough to merit an :eek:.
Wheee, nuclear waste.
Whoop-di-freaking-do
Unless the waste is dumping off shitloads of gamma-particles you don’t have anything to worry about.
Remember kidlets, alpha particles are stopped by pieces of notebook paper.
Beta particles by quarter inch plastic.
Gamma, now those need lead storage containers.
I’d worry if it was down the road from me, or like two feet above the drinking water table. But… eh even then I wouldn’t worry too much.
Hrrm which reminds me I need to find my radiation badge.
Woooo hoooo
11.9 miles from nearest route
39.7 From the nearest storage facility.
Blah blah blah.
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I’ve seen the freight trains that pass through my area at all hours of the day and night. Going by the labels, a lot of them carry some pretty formidable hazardous materials. Adding another type of freight to the mix is going to increase my risk, what, 1 or 2 percent?! :rolleyes:
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They state some enormous figure for train “wrecks” (I’m in Illinois), but then reveal that nearly half that number are trains hitting pedestrians or vehicles. The train wins 95% or more of those incidents with barely a scratch on the locomotive’s paint. I also imagine the high number comes from (a) the fact that Illinois includes Chicago, the hub of the North American rail system and (b) they include ALL collisions and incidents (“wrecks,” bloody hell!) including all the peds who get hit by Metra (read: not carrying nuclear waste) trains running for the train. :rolleyes:
Living in Washington state I am pretty safe from this truck load, but Hanford has been confirmed to be leaking nuclear waste into the Columbia river, which authorities have states is “not an issue.”
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I’m within 1 mile of a proposed route.
Hell. Less. 
I’m 2.2 miles from the nearest nuclear waste route. Not surprising, since I’m pretty close to I-95. And I’m 45.6 miles from the nearest nuclear waste source.
To all of you who say it’s fine, don’t worry, they have containers and stuff for that. What about when someone gets ahold of those materials who should not have them? Do those containers do much then?
My address was not found. I must be safe.
Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 84.4 miles
Distance from Savannah River, the nearest waste source: 93.9 miles
No PF Changs in SC but no nuclear waste either - I guess it balances out 
About a thousand feet from where I live to one proposed route and a bit over 500 feet from where I work to another proposed route.
So, what are the odds I could wind up with some kind of cool superpowers out of this?
0.8 miles from a proposed route.
So, what’s your point?
I work less than a hundred feet from an operating research nuclear reactor. Take classes in that building, too.
Actually, it’s kind of neat to watch it from outside on cold mornings. Any time you dump close to a megawatt of heat into the atmosphere as water vapor, you’re bound to get lots of condensation. In subzero weather, the white puffs skip the liquid phase altogether and fall to the ground as light snow. Gives a whole new meaning to “nuclear winter.”
146 miles. I guess I can breathe a sigh of relief there…
Anyone “who should not have one” managing to open a (very heavy, not easily stolen, and hard to open) container of dangerously radioactive waste deserves just what happens to them. Low-level waste? Eh.
Me, I’m not too concerned by nuke waste. I’d be more concerned by loss of radiography sources.
Oh: 3.4 miles /19.6 miles. The ‘dangerous’ transit route…? I-95.
So the are going to take the nuclear waste out of the nuclear power plant in my town and ship it to Nevada?
I am kind of glad that the route is only 1/2 mile from my home. I think that I am going to go out there and wave goodbye to it as it passes.
I’ll miss you nuclear waste. Be sure to write.
Wow do I feel lucky. I’ve got a highway that’s only .5 of a mile from me. But I’ve also got the train tracks that are also .5 away from me. I’m almost exactly down the middle!
Ah, finally got the map to come up (had to put in a neighboring address.
About three miles from the nearest route (which actually curves away from me, and so isn’t very close for very long), and 50 miles from the nearest waste source, that being the nuclear plant, oddly enough. 
Well, as I sit here looking out my window I can see the tracks those trains will travel; they are directly across the street from my home. When I heard about this on the news I kind of figured that “my” tracks might be involved. But still–it was something altogether different to see that map load up with the star representing my home sitting smack-dab on top of the hatched line of the railroad route.
I’ll be glad once it’s through.