1st Edition

Managing Nuclear Accidents A Model Emergency Response Plan For Power Plants And Communities

By Dominic Golding Copyright 1992
    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.

    Biography

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