Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power Plants

ISBN-13: 9781032242279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 378 str.

Paul Elkmann

Opis

Provides a history of emergency planning with respect to nuclear power plant accidents from the 1950’s to the 2000’s. Gives an overview of essential concepts that a working emergency planner should know. Includes a brief overview of the health physics and plant engineering applicable to emergency planning. Each chapter covers topics unique to ra

Recenzje

The book explains how certain directions taken by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission have helped shape the industry abroad. A key example is a discussion on reactor consequence analysis and the probabilistic risk assessment that is used widely across the industry. The author's focus is on U.S. regulations, although one could argue that difference in regulation today across countries is not significant, thus increasing the relevance of the book to industry emergency managers around the world.
Reviewed by Dan McArthur,asisonline

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Overview and History

Chapter 2: Protective Response

Chapter 3: Core Damage and Related Concepts

Chapter 4: The Basics of Dispersion

Chapter 5: Environmental Monitoring

Chapter 6: ERO’s and ERF’s

Chapter 7: Drill and Exercise Programs

Chapter 8: The Regulatory Environment

O autorze

Mr. Elkmann has 32 years of experience in environmental and nuclear plant health physics, beginning as a Health Physics Technician supporting the remediation of sites contaminated with radioactive material. He has managed an environmental analytical radiochemistry laboratory which gave him practical experience in collecting and analyzing environmental samples (air, water, soil, etc.) for radioactive material, as well as experience in instrument calibration, radiation surveys, shipping low level radioactive waste, whole body counting (internal radioactive material), quality control, and managing a radiation protection program for employees.

In his 30 years of experience in radiological emergency preparedness, beginning as Team Leader for a State Radiological Emergency Response Team in the mid 1980’s, he worked in emergency response in the nuclear industry, in state government, and in federal government, primarily as the senior health physicist in charge of assessing the radiological consequences of accidents. Mr. Elkmann is also an expert in the environmental transport of radioactive material and in radiation dose consequence assessment and has written emergency plans and procedures, done training needs assessments, written lesson plans for training emergency responders, conducted health physics training, evaluated performance in more than 350 drills and exercises, been the lead scenario developer for numerous exercises, and contributed to regulatory documents. He currently leads assessment teams in evaluating industry performance in radiological emergency preparedness.