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...governor is responsible for protecting the people. Without having a governor certify that he could protect the people within a 10-mile radius of a plant is just totally ridiculous...
...officials said the governors did not submit evacuation plans because they felt there was no way that the people within a 10-mile radius of the plants could be evacuated in the event of a nuclear accident...
...population around the Seabrook area grows dramatically during the summer, said Akey. The six northeastern Massachusetts communities within the 10-mile federally-mandated evacuation zone are popular summer resort areas. Traffic jams during the summer would prevent people from getting to safety if a nuclear accident were to occur, said Akey, adding that even in the winter, when the population is 50,000, evacuation would be difficult because there are no major access routes in the area...
...Citizens Within a 10-Mile Radius," a groupworking on maintaining safety at Seabrook, will"coordinate different groups in the area and getthem energized" in order to prevent the NRCproposal from being passed, said member PeterHaack...
Seventy-three years after it opened to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal remains one of the engineering marvels of the world. At one end of the 50-mile-long waterway, the 12,000 ships that traverse it annually are lifted 85 ft. above sea level by a series of locks, enabling them to sail through the mountainous spine of the Panama Isthmus. When they reach the opposite coast, another set of locks floats them gently back down to the ocean...