High above PSE&G Salem-Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant

Flying over PSE&G Salem-Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Salem, New Jersey on my return back to Philadelphia from Raleigh-Durham North Carolina

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[flyer7694]

@Natedogg0529 Yes, what you say is true and what I said is also still true. The spent fuel casks are also steel reinforced concrete surrounding a stainless steel liner and need no external forced cooling of any kind, even safer than inside the spent fuel pools. Just natural draft air circulation is enough to keep the casks cool as the fuel in the casks has spent about 10 years being cooled in the spent fuel pool first.

[flyer7694]

spent fuel at this site is contained inside steel reinforced concrete structures, nothing like a warehouse style building. in fact, hope creek's spent fuel is inside the concrete dome. salem's are not inside the containment dome, but are contained in steel reinforced structures just as robust.

[at0mgrrrl]

No one really knows if the reactor building will withstand an airplane crash, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission refuses to even entertain the question.

What we do know is that multiple reactor cores full of previously irradiated reactor fuel containing highly radioactive fission byproducts, nasty stuff, like strontium 90, iodine 129, cesium 137, are sitting ducks in swimming pools inside warehouse-style buildings.

[se4821]

you could fly a 747 into one of the reactor domes without spilling the operator's coffee.

[Alieya08]

I know a guy who fought in Iraq and he actually found this nuclear plant and several others completely mapped out. On the maps, they had points marked to show which part of the entire site would cause the most damage if it was attacked. Crazy stuff right?

[storz76]

Good point. Someone with a brain. It was a very clear day when we took off from Philly and as we were climbing over Jersey to our cruising altitude of 35K feet (we're probably at least 10-15k feet here), I saw the plant out the window and I zoomed my camera in as far as possible, that is why it probably looks so close for those asking about this.

[storz76]

When my flight flew from Philadelphia to Raliegh-Durham, NC. The flight from Philly took off heading over Jersey and turned at the plant. I only know of the plant because I had family working there and they are now retired.

[Jsd8675]

That's probably a good 4 miles from the reactor. In case you've never seen it, that thing is HUGE. You can see it from 40-50 miles away. he's really not that close.

[sirmelancholia]

I've seen commercial flights, but not very close; like you'd see at Sunoco Eagle Point in Westville or Valero in Paulsboro. Any private planes that fly within a mile of the place are obviously unaware of the no fly zone.

[jerseyboy119]

I work there as well and know it is not a no-fly zone and I see private and commercial flights go over all the time