Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant

[JBeukema]

According 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.

PolitiFact | MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant

 

[KissMy]

How many Americans have died from these nuclear power plants?

It is one of the safest forms of energy we have.

Wind power causes more deaths than nuclear power

Nuclear power is safer than wind power because there hasn’t been a single nuclear plant related death in 40 years.

Summary of Wind Turbine Incidents (December 2008):

• 41 Worker Fatalities, 16 Public- Includes falling from turbine towers and transporting turbines on the highway.

• 39 Incidents of Blade Failure- Failed blades have been known to travel over a quarter mile, killing any unfortunate bystanders within its path of destruction.

• 110 Incidents of Fire- When a wind turbine fire occurs, local fire departments can do little but watch due to the 30-story height of these turbine units. The falling debris are then carried across the distance and cause new fires.

• 60 Incidents of Structural Failure- As turbines become more prevalent, these breakages will become more common in public areas, thereby causing more deaths and dismemberment’s from falling debris.

• 24 incidents of "hurling ice”- Ice forms on these giant blades and is reportedly hurled at deathly speeds in all directions. Author reports that some 880 ice incidents of this nature have occurred over Germany’s 13-years of harnessing wind power.

 

[whitehall]

Here's a little perspective...more Americans have been killed in auto accidents in the last ten years than the entire Japanese casualties of Heroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks. 100% of Americans have access to a car.