Managing Nuclear Accidents - A Model Emergency Response Plan for Power Plants and Communities

List of contents

Preamble; the plan in context; objectives; nuclear accidents and their effects; the organization of emergency planning and response; accident evaluation; the emergency information system; short-term protective actions; long-term protective actions; maintaining effective preparedness.

About the author

Dominic Golding (Author) , Jeanne X Kasperson (Author)

Summary

In 1986, the Three Mile Island Public Health Fund commissioned a national team of researchers to prepare an alternative emergency plan for the region around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. This nontechnical book, addressed to emergency workers, the public and policymakers, presents the results of their research in the form of a bold plan that is applicable to any nuclear plant emergency. It builds on the principles that local knowledge is valuable, not unsophisticated, that communities are adaptive, not inflexible, and that information must be made available and accessible to the people who most need it.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Goble, Golding, Dominic Golding, Dominic Kasperson Golding, Golding Dominic, Jeanne X Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, John E Seley, John E. Seley, Gordon Thompson, Charles P Wolf, Charles P. Wolf
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367007966
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00796-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Conservation of the environment, Politics and government, Nuclear power & engineering, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Nuclear power and engineering