Some fun facts about the Palo Verde Nuclear plant:
It's upwind of the Phoenix metropolitan area. In case of an "incident" the prevailing winds generally blow right toward us. Bonus fun fact: the land Palo Verde was built on was owned by a relative of the then president of APS. I'm sure this was just a coincidence.
For what it cost to build the plant, solar panels could have been installed on at least 400,000 houses. (This is a conservative estimate. Factoring in economics of scale, the actual number probably would have been much higher.)
The plant is cooled by treated effluent from the Valley's cities. This is water that would normally be used for agricultural irrigation or returned to the aquifer. The consortium that owns the plant paid such a ridiculously low rate for this water that a lawsuit was filed by a concerned private citizen when the deal was announced. Naturally, he lost. In Arizona, the concerns of industry always trump the rights of citizens.
Most of the electricity produced by Palo Verde goes out of state. All of the hazard stays in state.
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