Via Dane Carlson, the Nuclear Waste Route Atlas.
From the site description:
One in seven Americans live within one mile of the proposed routes for shipping highly radioactive nuclear waste to Nevada, but the government has not made details of the routes accessible to the public in any meaningful way. Now citizens can go online and see just how close nuclear waste shipments will come to their homes or schools with interactive Nuclear Waste Route Maps, published online Tuesday, June 11 by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) at www.MapScience.org.
Here are some of my stats:
- Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 2.8 miles
- Distance from Indian Point, the nearest waste source: 17.8 miles
- Number of people in New Jersey that live within 1 mile of a nuclear transportation route - 1,066,223
- Schools within 1 mile of the proposed route in New Jersey - 237
- Hospitals within 1 mile - 13
- Fatal tractor-trailer wrecks in New Jersey 1994 to 2000 - 459
- Train wrecks in New Jersey 1990-2001 - 923
- Nuclear waste shipments in New Jersey over the life of the project:
- If by truck: 4,544
- If by train: 424
- Nuclear waste in New Jersey now - 1,688 metric tons. Nuclear waste in New Jersey if Yucca Mt. Project proceeds to completion - 1,731 metric tons.
YUCCA MOUNTAIN DOES NOT GET RID OF NUCLEAR WASTE:
"Under intense questioning from Nevada's two senators, [Secretary of Energy] Abraham conceded that the Yucca Mountain repository as currently envisioned could handle only a fraction of the waste expected to be generated by commercial power plants and the government in the coming decade." -- Associated Press, Friday, May 17, 2002
God, I've never really thought about how horrible nuclear waste is. No other method of producing energy makes waste that stays dangerous for thousands of years.
Saturday, June 15, 2002
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