Just to be clear, the Savannah River Site isn’t on the SC coast. It’s outside Augusta, GA on the GA/SC border. There is a nuclear power plant on the Georgia side, and a facility that refines nuclear material for use in nuclear weapons on the South Carolina side.
Actually there have been a series of sub-3 magnitude earthquakes in the past few years in the D/FW area. They think it’s some kind of consequence of all the gas drilling in the area. No damage or anything though.
In some areas near my house I can see the big white cloud that is produced from the cooling tower.
They are supposed to add another reactor to that plant but who knows if that will happen now. The plant opened in 86 and is licensed for 20 more years.
I don’t believe any of the reactors are online at this point - more of a waste processing place, isn’t it?
However, there is indeed a perfectly good fault line under my feet up here in Columbia, maybe 70 miles or so away? The Charleston earthquake will probably happen again at some time and Charleston will be hella fucked, what with all the fill and the bridges and such.
5 or 10 miles. “Can’t get there from here” (it’s across a river, any bridge is a very long way around), so I’m not positive exactly how far. We’re within the evacuation zone, though.
I don’t know why it doesn’t worry me, considering I worry about just about everything else, but it doesn’t.
5 miles from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant. I am in Delaware and it’s across the Delaware River in Salem County, NJ. My neighborhood has sirens and signs as part of the emergency planning, etc.
Some of the siren tests are low power so they are not loud. I think once a year they have to do a full power test. I don’t know where the closest siren is to my house. I play disc golf right across the lake from the plant.