March 15, 2011
sunfoundation: Nuclear power plants live along fault lines As recent events have shown in Japan, nuclear power plants are just as vulnerable to natural disasters as anything else. So here at Sunlight we were curious about the locations of domestic nuclear reactors. Using data from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Geological Survey, we generated the following map, which shows the location of the aforementioned reactors (there are 104 of them) vis-a-vis geological fault lines. We also included locations of significant historical earthquakes. Take a look and see if we might be vulnerable to a nuclear disaster if/when “the big one” hits, and click on the red dots to learn more about each nuclear power plant.

sunfoundation:

Nuclear power plants live along fault lines

As recent events have shown in Japan, nuclear power plants are just as vulnerable to natural disasters as anything else. So here at Sunlight we were curious about the locations of domestic nuclear reactors. Using data from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Geological Survey, we generated the following map, which shows the location of the aforementioned reactors (there are 104 of them) vis-a-vis geological fault lines. We also included locations of significant historical earthquakes. Take a look and see if we might be vulnerable to a nuclear disaster if/when “the big one” hits, and click on the red dots to learn more about each nuclear power plant.

(via nationaljournal)

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    I quite nearly whipped out my jizz face .gif for this one. Innovative applications of mapping do that to me.
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    They’re missing the San Onofre plant. Just saying. And that’s by the water. Though the nearest fault line is on land,...
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    that guy (although I am always that guy), especially because I think people suddenly fretting over
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    It should come as no surprise that nuclear plants are near fault lines. That’s where the people live (because that’s...
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    Click on the red dots to ignore the fact that it was the tsunami that imperiled the Japanese reactors, not the...