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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Nov 18, 2007
Description:
The first nuclear power plant to be commissioned since 1978 is scheduled to begin operations by 2014 in Matagorda County, Texas. Only a shallow moat separates the beach house from a nuclear containment building. I suppose it is safer than living next to a major highway.
Date Taken:
Nov 18, 2007
Place Taken:
Freeport, TX
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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Category:
289, An Indirect Relocation
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Don Maxwell - Nov 19,2007
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Oops. There goes the neighborhood.
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Nov 22,2007
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C'mon, you guys. We can't depend on fossil fuels forever. If we hadn't let the environmental wackos have their way all these years, we wouldn't be looking at $100 per barrel oil now. The only nuclear plant in Maine was shut down years ago thanks to them, and now we enjoy some of the highest electric rates in the country.
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Don Maxwell - Nov 23,2007
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You're right about fossil fuels, Mark. But I guess the question is Would you want one to be planted right across the canal from your beach house?
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Kenneth Leonard - Nov 23,2007
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I wouldn't want any industrial plant across the canal from my beach house, but if there had to be one anyway, I wouldn't mind a nuke. Just so long as the plant manager lived right next to me also...
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Nov 23,2007
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I'd also rather have a nuke plant than a smoke-belching coal-fired power plant.
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Frank A. Carr - Nov 23,2007
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Lake Keowee in upstate South Carolina is one of the nicer lakes in the South. For example 'Lake Keowee is <br />the most picturesque 18,500 acre body of unspoilt water tucked into the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge <br />Mountains, and with over 300 miles of shoreline Lake Keowee offers excellent real estate potential.' Duke <br />Power has a Nuclear Facility on the Lake for years, in fact, they own the Lake.
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Dennis Scearce - Nov 24,2007
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Five years of my career was in nuclear power production at Duke Power and I live 4 miles down wind from McGuire, on Lake Norman. As far as I'm concerned, it's one of the safest of any kind of plant to live near. There are more monitors, alarms, redundant systems and controls in a nuke than most anywhere else. And water, grass, cow's milk, air, fish and soil are monitored constantly. Just don't spend much time flying too close as the security folks frown on that.
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Chet Tims - Nov 24,2007
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The South Texas Nuclear Project is about 75 or 100 south of this one, very near Palacios, Texas ( Puh-lash-us ). From about 1991 thru 1999, I used its cooling pond as a major landmark from Corpus Christi up to Houston. So far, so good. No reported accidents or difficulties that I am aware of, and they didn't even TRY to shoot me down when I would fly over the cooling pond directly adjacent to the 'bumps', at about 1,000 msl....
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