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PolitiFact | MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plantAccording to a Federal Emergency Management Agency analysis using 2000 census data, there were 184 million people who lived within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant in the U.S., the RNC reported.
According to the U.S. Census, there were 281 million people living in the U.S. in 2000. So by our math, about 65 percent of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.