To facilitate notification and selective evacuation of the
public, protective action zones corresponding to the 10-mile Emergency Planning
Zone have been established around the power stations.
The map uses geographical features, either natural (rivers,
lakes) or man-made (roadways), to outline the boundaries of a protective action
zone. A system of numbered protective action zones has been identified and the
boundary of the protective action zones roughly corresponds to two-, five-,
and 10-mile distances from the nuclear station.
