ABSTRACT
A recent study of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident of March 1979 (Zeigler et al, 1981) reports a number of generalizations about the evacuation behaviour of area residents. Unfortunately, they were unable to address fully the role of spatial proximity and the social correlates of evacuation due to the limitations in the size of their data set. What we would like to do in this chapter is to examine those correlates. Findings from our study of the responses of the affected population reveal some statistically significant associations between evacuation and socio-spatial variables.
