FEMA and NRC Like Local Palisades Response:

eHam.net News – PAW PAW — Southwest Michigan emergency response agencies have passed a test of their ability to respond to a simulated nuclear accident at Palisades nuclear power plant. The term that testers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Federal Emergency Management Agency used was “reasonably assured.” “The exercise … demonstrates reasonable assurance exists of the licensees’ ability to effectively implement its emergency plan to adequately protect the public health and safety in the event of a radological emergency,” said Michelle Garza, an NRC emergency preparedness inspector. “The exercise involved a lot of different participants,” said Dwaine Warren, supervisor team leader of FEMA’s Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program. Emergency service agencies plus schools, public health, amateur radio operators, Palisades, WCXT radio, the American Red Cross and others from Van Buren, Berrien and Allegan counties took part.

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