Emergency Preparedness

A sheet with some citations to support the statements made in the sample resolution.

Sample resolution for local governments to support expansion of Emergency Planning Zones. This is a tool you can use: Take the resolution to your local county/city/town councils and seek passage of it (and then let us know that it has passed).

Press release. American Nuclear Society is right on need to improve emergency planning; wrong on solutions.

NIRS Petition for Rulemaking to NRC to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency preparedness around U.S. nuclear reactors. With 37 initial co-petitioners from across the United States.

Briefing Paper on Emergency Preparedness at U.S. Nuclear Reactors. 10 pages.

Fact Sheet: Emergency Planning for Nuclear Disasters.

Press release announcing submission of Petition for Rulemaking to NRC with quotes from NIRS & grassroots groups.

After rejecting a NIRS petition demanding emergency back-up power for sirens within 10-mile emergency planning zones around reactors, the NRC orders Indian Point to install exactly that, due to legislation sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) that affects only the Indian Point site.

NRC letter in response to NIRS request for reconsideration and reversal of the agency’s denial of an emergency enforcement petition requesting backup power to public notification sirens.  In the meantime, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton introduces legislation in US Senate to require backup power to emergency notification systems.