New York Nuclear-Accident Evacuation Would Work, Jaczko Says
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The New York City area may be safely evacuated in the event of a Fukushima-like disaster at the Indian Point nuclear plant because a crisis would unfold slowly, the top U.S. nuclear regulator said.
“Nuclear accidents do develop slowly, they do develop over time, and we saw that at Fukushima,” U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, 41, said in an interview today at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York. It’s unlikely a nuclear accident would require prompt action beyond “more than a few miles,” where the highest radiation levels would be, he said.