Tag: nuclear

How close are you to a nuclear plant?

by Robert Allison • August 25, 2016 • Comments Off

Have you ever wondered how far you live from the closest nuclear power plant? I’ve crunched the numbers for cities here in the US, and created an interactive SAS map to help answer that question! The average age of US nuclear power plants is 35 years, and there just doesn’t […]

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Is the US still a coal-powered nation?

by Robert Allison • August 8, 2016 • Comments Off

I ran across a map recently that seemed to show a lot of US states are primarily coal-powered. The map was a little difficult to read, so I decided to give it a SAS makeover … Before we get started, here’s a picture my friend David took of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power […]

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