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11 years ago
I live with in walking distance to a nuclear reactor ( about 7 miles away) is that safe or not?
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11 years ago
Depends on how committed and experienced the workers of the reactor are.
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11 years ago
Perfectly safe.  You're far more likely to be hurt or killed in a plane crash than you are to be harmed by a nuclear power plant.
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11 years ago
yea its fine, i mean the odds of the plant exploding or leaking is very low so you should be fine
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11 years ago
What do you want to compare it with?

If the same power plant were burning fossile coal dug up from the earth it would emit an amount of radioactive material much larger than the bit of gas it emits now.

The most dangerous phase you survived already. Given normal US statistics the chance of being killed in the construction of a nuclear power plant is much larger than the chance of being killed after the construction.

Make sure you don't work for a nuclear power plant. The chance of dying while commuting to work is much larger than for other jobs, even work for other power plants, because they tend to be build further from cities.

This last chance is very significant. In western countries the chance for soldiers to die in traffic accidents is larger than the chance to die due to violence.
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