A #GIS analysis of the number of people living near each of the world’s nuclear power plants
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/a_gis_analysis_of_the_number_o.html
It shows, for example, that two-thirds of the world’s power plants have more people living within a 30-kilometre radius than the 172,000 people living within 30 kilometres of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Some 21 plants have populations larger than 1 million within that radius, and six have populations larger than 3 million. One hundred and fifty-two nuclear power plants have more than 1 million people living within 75 kilometres. There’s lots more other insights in the detailed data.
I’ve published the full results in the form of a map which is best viewed using the desktop version of Google Earth — you can download my map file here. The map plots every one of the world’s nuclear plants with circle size indicating the number of people living within 75 km of each plant.
