Saturday, March 26, 2011

In Texas We Have 4 Nukes

A few nights ago Lawrence O’Donnell, on his MSNBC news and commentary show, The Last Word, cited an interesting statistic. Most people in America live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. Politifact got out a map, a census, and a calculator and verified O’Donnell’s claim.

So then, having absolutely no idea how close I live to a nuke I had to look.

Texas has 4 nuclear power plants.

Two of them are near Fort Worth, a far piece from Fort Bend County. And the other two are near Bay City.

Bay City is in neighboring Matagorda County.

50 miles away from me?

Nope.

60.

2 comments:

Marsha said...

Hal,

Isn't Bay City on the Gulf Coast sorta like the Japanese plants are located near the Atlantic Ocean ?

Marsha said...

OOPS, wrong ocean.