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EMERGENCY PLANNING AND NUCLEAR POWER

01 January 1991

EMERGENCY PLANNING AND NUCLEAR POWER
refdoc August=1991

JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 012380 , Acc Date = 09-Jun-88
D Golding, R E Kasperson
Land Use Policy, Jan 1988 5(1) pp19-36

The history of emergency planning in the United States over the
past 20 years is examined with comment on relevant statutes and
regulations covering nuclear power stations, the geography of
emergency planning zones, and the growing influence of public
opinion following recent nuclear accidents. Identifies a range
of problems including the inflexibility of a regulatory and
planning system organised and managed on military lines; the
virtual monopoly of technical information held by the utilities;
controversy about the size of emergency planning zones; the
preoccupation of emergency planning with evacuation at the
expense of other types of action to protect the civilian
population; the refusal of many proponents of nuclear power to
accept that the worst case scenarios could happen in the USA; and
the failure of emergency planners to take human behaviourial
factors into account. 95 notes and references.

nuclear, accident, Atomic Energy Commission, emergency, planning
zone, low population zone, zoning, civil defence

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