Would you live in a house on a lake that was the cooling reservoir for a nuclear power plant?

[arcadian]

Let's say the house was less than 10 miles from the plant.

[Fuzz]

1. No

[orestes]

2. Depends.

In this hypothetical, how strong is my urge to grow a second head?

[ananda]

3. Why?

Are people moving there?

[angstlessk]

4. does that make it a perpetually heated lake? like a swimming pool?

btw...no I don't think so.

[Dappleganger]

5. Is this the last lake in America?

[Warpy]

6. It would depend on the safety record and/or age of that plant

I wouldn't expect to live on fish from that lake, though, not because of any radioactivity but because the warm water discharge would make it inhospitable to them and there would be damned few to catch.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. It would likely be much safer than any lake or stream near an industrial feedlot.

That's for sure.

Many more of those, and nobody gets too upset.

[dem629]

8. It's expensive when your kids need glasses and you have to pay for three lenses per kid.

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Are they drawing water from the reservoir or discharging into it?

I live 7 miles, as the crow flies, from a Nuclear Plant. I don't live on the water, but we swim and fish there all summer.

[Occam Bandage]

10. Sure. I live 40 miles from a plant right now. A lake would be nice. nt

[Mugu]

11. Don't think that it would be much different than my present situation.

This is located 30 miles due west of me. I can see it clearly most days.



We used to enjoy water-skiing there because the water was a bit warmer.

[Buzz Clik]

12. Welcome to Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, Washington.

The Columbia is the cooling reservoir for Hanford. And Hanford leaks more than just heat.

Yeah, I lived there, but I moved.

[SidDithers]

13. Sure. Why not?...nt

Sid

[closeupready]

14. Mere proximity to a plant - that fact itself doesn't concern me.

Neither as to ambient radioactivity or leakage, as a rule.

What does concern me are unreported incidents, occasional leakage of radioactive steam or even things like earthquakes or terrorist attacks. Even human malfunction. There are also superficial things like those towers are UGLY and SCARY looking.

However, as a rule, would I live on such a lake? Would it be free? Sure. But not by choice, no.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. No

[JuniperLea]

16. No

I'm still freaked out about swinning in the warm ocean off San Onofre!

[MADem]

17. How old am I in this scenario? Ninety? Ninety five? Sure, why not.

Especially if I'd always wanted a lovely water view.

Is the water a nice swimming temperature for my ninety year old bones?

[backtoblue]

18. Well, I live about 20 miles from one

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zormsk/1314498027/

(and yes, people really do fish in this lake)

[zipplewrath]

19. False assumption

I suspect you are operating on a false assumption. The water that does the "cooling" in a nuclear plant is basically recycled. Any water used that is discharged is in a "liquid to liquid" heat exchanger. As such that water is never anywhere near the nuclear material. Most likely it is in some "cooling tower" somewhere. The only other water is that used in the steam turbine. That water is no different from the water used in a coal or oil fired steam turbine.

The lake isn't the problem. Somewhere, waste material is stored. Stored improperly and the ground water could be affected.

[doc03]

20. I think lake Anna in Virginia is such a lake and it

is a top notch bass fishing lake, I would live there if I could.

[Lyric]

24. We used to fish in Lake Anna when we lived in Virginia.

Once, I was there with my stepfather and my boyfriend and one his *his* friends, and I had cast out my pole and placed it on a "Y" stick with a rock on the grip to steady it, so I could roast a couple of hot dogs over our little fire. The next thing I know, my pole starts twitching. I walk over to pick it up, thinking YES! Got one!, and suddenly my ENTIRE POLE flies forward and is dragged into the lake. I have no idea what kind of fish it was, but whatever it was, it was BIG.

I never did get my pole back. It was a nice little Shakespeare, too. Ah well. I got to witness three men rolling around, laughing their asses off at the girl who missed catching Big Bertha for the sake of a couple of hot dogs.

Assholes. :P

[Rebubula]

27. Lake Anna

That is a beautiful place.

[Codeine]

21. Absolutely.

In a heartbeat. Much, much safer than living near any other power plant.

[eShirl]

22. not if I had another choice

DH says "Yes, save on chemo" :spank:

[Vinca]

23. You might as well. I live 10 miles from a nuclear plant as do

tens of thousands of other people. If the plant goes, it doesn't matter if you're on their lake or on a beautiful New Hampshire hillside and can't even see the steam from the plant. House value-wise, I wouldn't want to live within sight of the thing, but survival-if-it-melts-down-wise, it doesn't really matter. If the wind is headed in your direction you're in deep doodoo.

[old mark]

25. I certainly would not eat the goddam fish......nt

[jpak]

26. Only if it was plagued by pirates

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