I know my previous blogs haven't mentioned Utah very much, but I felt it necessary to go over general information such as waste storage and cost effectiveness in general before it made sense to advocate it for Utah in specific.So, basically, placing the Power Plant in Utah means looking at two maps: Population Density, and Fault Lines.
Looking at these two maps, it looks as though there is an area right below the top left of the map which has a low Population Density, as well as no fault lines. That would be Tooele county.
The only problem is that this area is right in the Salt Flats. Which is fine and dandy, except that Nuclear Power Plants require a lot of water. I believe it is possible to create a closed water system nuclear reactor coolant system, but I don't have any idea of how this may be accomplished. I don't have a masters in engineering.
Another spot that I would consider placing Nuclear Power Plants is next to Sevier Lake about 40 miles from Delta. This is close enough to the plant to supply workers homes at a reasonably close distance to the plant while ensuring that the city of Delta is not at immediate danger of radiation exposure. The plant would also be located close to an existing road so few additional roads would have to be added, and the mountains would be a reasonable distance from where the power plant would be located, and Sevier Lake would provide an excellent source of water for the Nuclear Power Plant to run well.
Obviously, we would want to place the Nuclear Power Plant in somewhat remote places because if anything went wrong it wouldn't be right by a major city so we won't repeat the 3-Mile Island Accident's mistake, and also so that even if an earthquake happens, it likely won't be too close to the Power Plant, and the Power Plant would at least not be directly on top of the Fault Line. Luckily, Utah doesn't have to worry about Tsunami's unlike Fukushima.
Thanks for reading again!
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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Utah_population_map.png
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCSoICvj-pbbc8IbWFgW_XIdCplCNAKeVCZyKIlWausJs-S5Na
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