Panel: Rethink nuclear emergency plans

Charlotte Observer Thursday 8th March, 2012

WASHINGTON The U.S. should customize emergency plans for each of the nation's 65 nuclear power plants, a change that in some cases could expand the standard 10-mile evacuation zone in place for more than three decades, an expert panel is recommending. That's one of the lessons to emerge in a 40-page report to be released Thursday - three days befo...

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