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I think that’s a great idea. There must be lists of locations somewhere – the civil ones anyway. The military ones might be harder to plot – but we could plot the main ones manually.
In the UK for instance, all nuclear weapons are stored in Scotland, just outside Glasgow, the largest city (as far away from London as possible!) at a place called RNAD Coulport (Royal Naval Armament Depot Coulport).
Wikipedia has a huge list of all the civil ones from International Atomic Agency data, but they don’t have coordinates for plotting a map. Google time!
There are some pretty good mapping products/overlays for Google maps that allow categories of locations, searching by location, filtering, etc.
Here’s a list of civil Nuclear power stations worldwide, from IAEA data, but not sure how recently it’s been updated.
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=579353#rows:id=1
And here’s a list of civil facilities in the USA licenced to handle radioactive material – Uranium mine/mills, reclamation, etc;
In Australia we haven’t really done anything nuclear past a couple of small reactors for science & medical in Sydney at Lucas Heights.
That being said we have a waste dump in central & northern Australia…
and some of the biggest uranium mines on the planet…
So while high level radiation from a nuclear accident may not be a concern, the potential exists for dust storms to bring uranium into populated areas.
regards
Tim
I was also having this thought. I did a little searching and came across this
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.nl/2011/03/nuclear-power-plants-earthquake.html
http://maptd.com/map/earthquake_activity_vs_nuclear_power_plants/http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/google-maps-weather/ what about adding a button that can toggle on and off the weather layer? (wind directions and rain)
I also came across a googlemaps nuclear powerplant layer with pinned info about the year it was build, the amount of generated power etc.
Can’t find it right now but i will add a link as soon as i find it again.
EDIT: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2012/mar/08/nuclear-power-plants-world-mapAnd i’m sure there will also be a list of militairy sites where nukes are stored or suspected to be stored. And a list of sites where nuclear waste is being stored?
combining all of the above could then paint a nice picture if/how uRAD readings are related to weather and nearby (or not so nearby) powerplants.
Not sure if there is also data of radiation from outer space (sunspots), ozon layer, and the earths magnetic field. But I guess there are not enough monitors online yet to actually make sense of that data on the larger scale.
Hello everyone. This is my first message here.
This is a very good idea to have additional layers on the map, like nuclear power plants, hazardous places (e.g. Chernobyl), radioactive waste management facilities, natural (e.g. mines), etc.;
As a matter of fact I’ve already started to aggregate data about npps from various sources. Afterwards I was thinking to release it on GitHub.
My data structure is something more complex. SQL table structure below:
SELECT
nuclear_power_plants.id,
nuclear_power_plants.name,
nuclear_power_plants.longitude,
nuclear_power_plants.latitude,
nuclear_power_plants.country,
nuclear_power_plants.status,
nuclear_power_plants.type,
nuclear_power_plants.model,
nuclear_power_plants.built_start_year,
nuclear_power_plants.operational_from_year,
nuclear_power_plants.operational_to_year
FROMnuclear_power_plants;Cristian S.
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