Nuclear Evacuation May Bog Down

I know how the NRC will respond to this. We got to throttle information coming outof a plant meltdown...in order to protect human lives. We got to release just enough information to get local people to start evacuating without scaring the greater than 10 mile people who will clog up the evacuation.

We got to better control information from the plant across the board so we never create the environments where a real accident will create a human stampede.

This is how we preserve the greatest amount health of the most the most people...to release less information so we won't create a huge human clog on our roads if a human stampede occurs in a potential core meltdown...

Hey, we are strictly following the rules from congress....

　
Alert to Congress: Nuclear evacuation may bog down
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Associated Press

A new government report challenges a pillar of planning for disasters at American nuclear power plants, finding that people living beyond the official 10-mile evacuation zone might be so frightened by the prospect of spreading radiation that they would flee of their own accord, clog roads, and delay the escape of others.

For more than 30 years, community readiness has been based on the belief that evacuation planning isn't needed beyond 10 miles from nuclear sites. But the Government Accountability Office report — to be released later Wednesday but obtained in advance by The Associated Press — found that regulators have never properly studied how many people beyond 10 miles would make their own decisions to take flight, prompting what is called a "shadow evacuation."

As a result, the GAO report says, "evacuation time estimates may not accurately consider the impact of shadow evacuations."

However, Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, shot back in an email statement: "We disagree with the view that evacuations cannot be safely carried out."

The investigation was requested by four U.S. senators: Democrats Barbara Boxer of California, Robert P. Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and independent Bernard Sanders of Vermont. They asked for the report in 2011 in response to an AP investigative series reporting weaknesses in community planning for nuclear accidents, including the likelihood of surprisingly large shadow evacuations. The GAO acts as an investigative arm of Congress.