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Several hundred officials from Madison to Lake Michigan’s western shore are preparing for a drill Tuesday to test their abilities in the case of a nuclear disaster at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant.
“We don’t know the scenario. We never do,” said Nancy Crowley, Manitowoc County’s emergency management director since 1981.
The drill comes two months after an explosion occurred at the Point Beach plant as workers loaded spent fuel rods into a storage cask. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Agency has said the hydrogen gas explosion, sparked by a chemical reaction between a zinc-based coating on the cask’s interior and boric acid from a spent fuel storage pool, was avoidable.
