Emergency Planning for Nuclear Disasters

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  • One hundred and twenty million Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. Fortunately, a serious accident at one of these plants is highly unlikely. But as we saw at Fukushima, sometimes the unlikely is what happens, and we must be prepared to respond when it does.

    Who is responsible for emergency planning?

    Emergency planning responsibilities for nuclear power plants fall into two categories: onsite (responding to the accident within the nuclear facility itself) and offsite (dealing with the consequences to the surrounding area and population).

    According to guidelines prepared by a joint NRC/FEMA task force after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, power plant owners are responsible for onsite emergency planning, while state and local governments are responsible for offsite emergency planning. The NRC has overall authority for final review in both cases.

    The NRC reviews onsite emergency response planning and training procedures as part of a nuclear plant's initial licensing process, and plant owners are required to exercise their emergency plans with the NRC, FEMA, and offsite authorities at least once every two years. A number of different state and federal agencies, ranging from state health departments to the Department of Homeland Security, are involved in the process of preparing and approving offsite emergency response plans.
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