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This pamphlet is intended for reprint. You are encouraged to copy and distribute it widely.December 2012.
BEYOND NUCLEAR6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 400
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Email: [email protected]
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ROUTINE RADIOACTIVE RELEASES FROM U.S.
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
A DIAGRAM PUBLISHED IN 1977 BY THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Exposure pathways to man
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1. Arkansas One 1 & 2 (AR) Dardanelle Reservoir, Arkansas River
2. Beaver Valley 1 & 2 (PA) Ohio River
3. Braidwood 1 & 2 (IL) Braidwood Lake, Kankakee River
4. Browns Ferry 1, 2 & 3 (AL) Tennessee River
5. Brunswick 1 & 2 (NC) Cape Fear River, Atlantic Ocean
6. Byron 1 & 2 (IL) Rock River
7. Callaway (MO) Missouri River
8. Calvert Cliffs 1 & 2 (MD) Chesapeake Bay
9. Catawba 1 & 2 (SC) Lake Wylie, Catawba River
10. Clinton (IL) Clinton Lake, Salt Creek
11. Columbia (WA) Columbia River
12. Comanche Peak 1 & 2 (TX) Squaw Creek Reservoir, Brazos River
13. Donald C. Cook 1 & 2 (MI) Lake Michigan
14. Cooper (NE) Missouri River
15. Crystal River 3 (FL) Gulf of Mexico
16. Davis-Besse (OH) Lake Erie
17. Diablo Canyon 1 & 2 (CA) Pacific Ocean
18. Dresden 2 & 3 (IL) Kankakee River
19. Duane Arnold (IA) Cedar River
20. Joseph M. Farley 1 & 2 (AL) Chatahoochee River
21. Fermi 2 (MI) Lake Erie
22. James A. FitzPatrick (NY) Lake Ontario
23. Fort Calhoun (NE) Missouri River
24. R. E. Ginna (NY) Lake Ontario
25. Grand Gulf (MS) Mississippi River
26. Edwin I. Hatch 1 & 2 (GA) Altamaha River
27. Hope Creek (NJ) Delaware River
28. Indian Point 2 & 3 (NY) Hudson River
29. Kewaunee (WI) Lake Michigan (closing in 2013)
30. LaSalle 1 & 2 (IL) LaSalle Lake, Illinois River
31. Limerick 1 & 2 (PA) Schuylkill River
32. McGuire 1 & 2 (NC) Lake Norman, Catawba River
33. Millstone 2 & 3 (CT) Niantic Bay of Long Island Sound
34. Monticello (MN) Mississippi River
35. Nine Mile Point 1 & 2 (NY) Lake Ontario
36. North Anna 1 & 2 (VA) Lake Anna, North Anna River, Pamunkey River, York River, Chesapeake Bay
37. Oconee 1, 2 & 3 (SC) Lake Keowee, Savannah River
38. Oyster Creek (NJ) Bamegat Bay of Atlantic Ocean
39. Palisades (MI) Lake Michigan
40. Palo Verde 1, 2 & 3 (AZ) Groundwater plus Phoenix sewage water from 35 miles away provide the cooling water. Waste water is evaporated; saturated sludges are shipped to a radioactive waste dump.
41. Peach Bottom 2 & 3 (PA) Conowingo Pond, Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay
42. Perry (OH) Lake Erie
43. Pilgrim (MA) Cape Cod Bay of Atlantic Ocean
44. Point Beach 1 & 2 (WI) Lake Michigan
45. Prairie Island 1 & 2 (MN) Mississippi River
46. Quad Cities 1 & 2 (IL) Mississippi River
47. River Bend (LA) Mississippi River
48. H. B. Robinson 2 (SC) Lake Robinson, Black Creek
49. Saint Lucie 1 & 2 (FL) Atlantic Ocean
50. Salem 1 & 2 (NJ) Delaware River
51. San Onofre 2 & 3 (CA) Pacific Ocean
52. Seabrook (NH) Atlantic Ocean
53. Sequoyah 1 & 2 (TN) Chickamauga Lake, Tennessee River
54. Shearon Harris (NC) Harris Lake, Buckhorn Creek, Cape Fear River
55. South Texas Project 1 & 2 (TX) Colorado River, Gulf of Mexico
56. V. C. Summer (SC) Monticello Reservoir, Broad River
57. Surry 1 & 2 (VA) James River, Chesapeake Bay
58. Susquehanna 1 & 2 (PA) Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay
59. Three Mile Island (PA) Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay
60. Turkey Point 3 & 4 (FL) Biscayne Bay of Atlantic Ocean
61. Vermont Yankee (VT) Connecticutt River
62. Vogtle 1 & 2 (GA) Savannah River
63. Waterford 3 (LA) Mississippi River
64. Watts Bar (TN) Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee River
65. Wolf Creek (KS) Coffey County Lake, Neosho River
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