You're spending a nice quiet weekend of fishing and sunbathing along the shores of Lake Anna, never giving that big, old domed power plant across the water much mind. Then suddenly ... It's Three Mile Island all over again! What are you going to do?
You may be totally unprepared for the unlikely event of an emergency evacuation, but state, local and Dominion Virginia Power officials hopefully will have some idea what they're doing. They will be testing their ability this week to handle a nuclear emergency at the utility's North Anna Power Station, Greg Edwards with the Times-Dispatch reported over the weekend.
Localities within 50 miles of the Louisa County plant, including some in the Richmond region, will participate in the drill Tuesday and Wednesday. "Law-enforcement officers will practice traffic-control measures and local and state radiological monitoring teams will take field readings and communicate with one another by radio," writes Edwards.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will monitor the event and submit a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to use in making licensing decisions.