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  • AP IMPACT: Evacs and drills pared near nuke plants

    Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.


  • ** FILE ** In a Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, file photo, Walter Lee, right, manager of Nuclear Emergency Preparedness, leads the evaluation as the Tennessee Valley Authority conducts an emergency preparedness drill in the Central Emergency Control Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)

    Evacuations and drills pared near nuke plants

    Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.


  • Nuclear energy presents promise, problems

    BOSTON (AP) — Nuclear energy is hot again as one result of the global warming issue.


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