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For identified scenarios, evacuation of IIZ, generally comprising of road side population, is effectively possible in six out of seven identified emergency planning zones except in zone-7, where certain people would still be exposed, as full evacuation may not be achieved.
Regulatory commission rules for control-room staff levels, emergency planning zones and security are all predicated on large, aboveground reactors.
The task force also refrained from recommending changes in emergency planning zones, despite the embassy's recommendation during the crisis for Americans to stay 50 miles away from Fukushima.
"It has not looked at the size of emergency planning zones around UK reactors [about 3km] compared with the 30km evacuation area in Japan; it leaves open key questions about flooding and security risks.
For the economics to work, builders would have to convince regulators that the smaller plants can get by safely with less robust containment structures, smaller evacuation planning zones and smaller security forces.
Likewise, the commission should expand emergency planning zones beyond its arbitrary 10-mile limit to protect all nearby residents who would be at significant risk from a severe accident.
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The state of Massachusetts, with several towns inside the 10-mile emergency planning zone, refused to approve emergency plans.
Some others, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, have called for the emergency planning zone to be extended from 10 to 50 miles.
Under this scenario, there were fewer than 29 initial fatalities in the 10-mile emergency planning zone.
In the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommends that people living within a 10-mile emergency planning zone around a nuclear plant have access to potassium iodide tablets.
For a reactor in a remote area, where few residents could be exposed, an emergency planning zone of two miles might be sufficient to reach the goal, he said; for a reactor in a more densely settled area, where a leak of the same size could expose more people, that might mean an emergency planning zone of more than 10 miles.
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