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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by mason240 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:37AM (#13238351)
>100,000 homes within 40 miles is probably on the low side.

Homes, not people. 100k would be a very high number.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Retric on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:11PM (#13239545)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center for example is close to and up river of NYC.

So, as an average 100,000 seems low even if the median might be below that.

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