The world’s nuclear reactors as you’ve never seen them...
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/03/the_worlds_nuclear_reactors_as_1.html
if you zoom in and then click on a power plant, its circular symbol will open up to show each individual reactor at the plant, with the colour of the circle of each reactor depicting its design (for example, “boiling water reactor”). Then clicking on any reactor will bring up an information panel, giving the reactor’s basic technical details, and where available a photograph of the plant, as well as links to recent news stories about the plant.
A major advantage of #Google_Earth is that it is also easy to overlay other layers of #data on top of this base map of #nuclear power plants and reactors, so (time permitting) I could envisage, for example, adding such relevant geographical layers as datasets on #population_density, past significant #earthquakes and #tsunamis, as well as seismi
