Thursday, December 15, 2011 (Slight Chance of Meltdown)

A Slight Chance of Meltdown

What if the Indian Point nuclear-power plant, 25 miles north of NYC, was to suffer a meltdown?

After the Fukushima meltdown, the NRC told Americans living there to clear out of a 50-mile zone. Subsequently, the Japanese government declared huge swathes of land uninhabitable for decades. The local 50-mile equivalent is a circle defined by Kingston to the north; Bridgeport, Connecticut, to the east; the Delaware Water Gap to the west; and the southern tip of Staten Island to the south. It includes all of the 8.2 million people living in New York City.

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