In 2021, there were 56 commercial nuclear power plants in 29 states producing approximately 20 percent of the nation’s power. Nearly three million people live within 10 miles of an operating nuclear power plant. View the Map About the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program The REPP PIM consolidates information and data from numerous public resources into one common picture and presents as a preparedness tool that can help strengthen our future community planning and decisions in emergency management. The civil defense programs were replaced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which was created in 1978 to oversee civil defense and disaster management.Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) National Public Information MapĪn open source national interactive mapping application that connects and informs users to State, Local, Tribal Territorial & Federal radiological preparedness resources (FEMA Public ArcGIS Online) overlay with hazard, demographic & specific REP information. People received maps showing evacuation routes, families were encouraged to build their own bomb shelters, and countless schoolchildren watched the movie “Duck and Cover” and practiced hiding under their desks when they “see the flash.”Īfter the Cold War, the government focus shifted away from defense against Soviet air strikes. As part of the Alert America campaign, the FCDA flooded the public with some 400 million pieces of survival literature that attempted to educate and reassure people that simple civil defense procedures would protect them from a nuclear attack. President Harry Truman established the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) in 1950 after the outbreak of the Korean War. People lived with the threat of nuclear war as part of their daily lives. The future looked uncertain in the new Atomic Age, and there was growing tension between America and the Soviet Union. All of these were familiar terms to Americans in the Cold War culture of the 1950s.

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