The Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program is responsible for developing and maintaining Wisconsin's emergency plans to a nuclear incident and exercising those response plans with affected local communities and the utilities.

The nuclear power plants located in Wisconsin are Kewaunee and Point Beach, and the Prairie Island plant is located across the Mississippi River near Red Wing, Minnesota. In addition, spent nuclear fuel rods are kept in a cooling pool at the Dairyland Power Cooperative in Genoa and at the Zion Nuclear Generating Plant located on Lake Michigan near the Wisconsin/Illinois border.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requires each utility operating a nuclear power plant to demonstrate its ability, once every two years, to respond to a radiological emergency.

• Information on radiation protection from WI Department of Health Services
• WI Department of Health Services - No Harmful Radiation Expected to Reach Wisconsin
• President Obama on the situation in Japan and possible impacts in the U.S. (3/17/2011)
• White House Briefing on situation in Japan and possible impacts in the U.S. (3/17/2011)
• FAQ from U.S. Customs and Border Protection
• FAQ from U.S. Food & Drug Administration
• Radiation and Potassium Iodide (KI)

• Kewaunee Power Station
• Point Beach Nuclear Plant
• Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant
• Zion Station Nuclear Power Plant
• Genoa La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor
• Byron Nuclear Power Station

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