NRC Petitioned to Incorporate Lessons of Fukushima

Clean Energy Groups Petition NRC to Incorporate Lessons of Fukushima Petition asks to Expand Evacuation Zones and Improve Emergency Planning Around Nuclear Reactors
[link to www.cleanenergy.org]

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80% of the airborne radiation released from Fukushima went directly over the Pacific Ocean,” explained Michael Mariotte, executive director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, which initiated the petition. “Even so, the Fukushima evacuation zone extended more than 25 miles to the northwest of the site, and the NRC and U.S. State Department both recommended that U.S. citizens within 50 miles of Fukushima evacuate. Such evacuations could not be effectively conducted in the U.S. under current emergency planning regulations. We need to be better prepared and we can’t rely on favorable wind patterns to protect the American people.”

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