Nuclear Evacuation Zones

U.S. emergency-response plans call for only evacuating residents within a 10-mile radius of a nuclear disaster. However, last week, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommended that Americans within 50 miles of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant evacuate. Below, see what 10-mile and 50-mile evacuation zones around U.S. nuclear power plants would look like, and the population that would be affected. (See related article.)
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