Observing the nuke power issue in the US

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Growler

Point is, within 80m of where I currently sit, there are more nuclear plants than there are on the entire West Coast of the US. I thought that was worth exploring, but then again, I'm strange.

Washington State alone has over forty hydroelectric dams producing electricity for both this state, Oregon and northern California, which probably explains why we have only the one nuke plant at Hanford, which in itself is just a relic of the atomic bomb project there in the 1940s.