COFFEY COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - Wolf Creek Generating Station is Kansas’ one and only nuclear reactor, and it just recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. But with nuclear energy comes the risk of public exposure to radiation, and Wolf Creek has a plan in place in the event of an emergency.

Their plan involves separating events at the plant into four levels; the highest two levels mean radiation has been released.

Wolf Creek’s staff says that in the plant’s 40 years, those levels have never been declared, but they are always prepared.

“We have emergency action levels for a tornado if something were to happen to our off-site power,” said Joshua Bousum, Wolf Creek’s emergency planning manager, “and we have a multitude of on-site generating capacity that we do not need that off-site power w

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