No more sheltering or iodine tablets: Government reviews nuclear emergency response

Why are we getting a new nuclear emergency plan? Technically speaking, it’s not new but an update of the National Plan on Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Exposures. The Department of Climate, Energy and Environment says it’s a routine review carried out every so often. This is the fourth. So it’s not prompted by, say, the heatwaves and droughts in Europe putting the vital cooling of nuclear power plants at risk? The department says no. And not by Russia’s fondness for exploding things in the vicinity of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant? Apparently not. Not even because of the excitement bubbling globally over the prospect of companies developing small modular reactors to provide their own power needs? Not specifically, although such reviews do heed emerging technologies and ne