As Jeff Donn at the Associated Press reports, U.S. Senator Robert Casey Jr., Democrat of Pennsylvania (pictured at left), has called upon the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, to report back to him on the adequacy of NRC, FEMA, and nuclear industry emergency plans. His action comes in response to AP's report on the explosion of populations around nuclear power plants in the past 30 years (see that article in the posting below).