Geography Reference
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Fig. 6.13
Overlay of (
a
) CCRP generated and (
b
) hand-crafted evacuation routes for the Monti-
cello power plant
power plant is located about 40 miles northwest of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-
St. Paul. Evacuation plans need to be in place in case of accidents or terrorist attacks.
The evacuation zone is a 10-mile radius around the nuclear power plant as defined
by Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management (Lu et al.
2007
). An
initial hand-crafted evacuation route plan called for the affected population to travel
to a nearby high school. The plan did not consider the capacity of the road network
in the area, nor the high traffic load that would be put on two nearby highways.
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