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Ben Smilowitz: Few communities have adequate nuclear evacuation plans

A new report from the Disaster Accountability Project found very few communities have plans to deal with evacuation outside the current 10-mile radius of a nucl...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

March 25, 2016 10:28 am

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Ben Smilowitz, executive director, Disaster Accountability Project

A new report from the Disaster Accountability Project found very few communities have plans to deal with evacuation outside the current 10-mile radius of a nuclear plant. About 100 million Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear plant. Ben Smilowitz, the advocacy group’s executive director, talked to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the report’s findings.