In the event of an emergency at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Two Rivers, you can be assured that Kewaunee County Emergency Management is as prepared as you can be. Kewaunee County passed its portion of a biennial Plume Pathway Emergency Response Excercise, which was evaluated by FEMA, and focused on the ability to protect the health and safety of the public potentially in danger in the plant’s 10-mile radius. Kewaunee County Emergency Management Director Tracy Nollenberg explains that you don’t need to reside in a ten-mile radius to be affected by an emergency at the plant, and their preparedness is a benefit to all in Kewaunee County. 

FEMA’s preliminary results showed that Kewaunee County had no planning issues detected. The exercise also tested the county’s internal and external communications, evacuation protocols and routes and traffic impediments that could impact evacuation. In an emergency evacuation, the Kewaunee County reception center is the Luxemburg-Casco Intermediate School, in which evacuees would get monitored for radiological contamination and to gain further assistance. The final FEMA report is expected to be available within ninety days. 

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