Principles of off-site nuclear emergency exercises
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H. Miska
Abstract
Due to high safety standards at nuclear power plants, no experience exits with nuclear emergencies in Western Europe. Thus, emergency exercises are the only possibility to assure effective protective measures should the very unlikely severe accident occur. The main objectives of exercises are generally the check of response plans for suitability, the test of the equipment's applicability and training of personnel for the unusual task to manage a nuclear emergency. After an introduction into the different types of exercises, this contribution focuses on off-site nuclear emergency exercises, explaining frame conditions to ensure good practice and, finally, reports some experience from exercises.
Kurzfassung
Auf Grund der hohen Sicherheitsstandards in Kernkraftwerken bestehen in Westeuropa keine Erfahrungen mit kerntechnischen Notfällen. Daher stellen Notfallschutzübungen die einzige Möglichkeit dar, effektive Schutzmaßnahmen für den Fall sicher zu stellen, dass solch ein unwahrscheinlicher, schwerwiegender Unfall einmal erfolgen sollte. Die wesentlichen Ziele von Übungen sind allgemein Überprüfung der Eignung von Einsatzplänen, Test von Einsatzmitteln auf ihre Eignung und Ausbildung des Personals für die ungewöhnliche Aufgabe der Beherrschung eines kerntechnischen Notfalls. Nach einer Einführung über verschiedene Übungsarten widmet sich dieser Beitrag den Übungen außerhalb von kerntechnischen Anlagen, erklärt den Rahmen für erfolgreiche Übungen und berichtet schließlich über Erfahrungen aus einigen Übungen.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents/Inhalt
- Contents
- Summaries/Kurzfassungen
- Summaries
- Editorial
- Can (should) exercises represent real life?
- Technical Contributions/Fachbeiträge
- Principles of off-site nuclear emergency exercises
- Switzerland: a culture of preparedness
- Advanced simulation and management software for nuclear emergency training and response
- Training of the KBR nuclear emergency staff
- Preparation of emergency care centre exercises
- Independent assessor's report on the experience with preparation, managing, observing and evaluation of emergency exercises without prior notice in nuclear power plants
- Electronic situation report in a nuclear power plant
- Systematic preparation, execution and evaluation of emergency exercises at the Beznau nuclear power plant
- Emergency exercises conducted by the BMU
- Nuclear emergency Exercise “BIBLIS 2008” – Joint radiological assessment for Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Württemberg
- Externally organized exercises for nuclear emergency response – knowlegde gained from twenty years of practical work as a technical expert adviser for radiation protection
- Measurements required for evaluating a situation including radiological hazards
- Exercises of first responder organisations in Austria
- Efficiency of emergency exercises
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of an emergency exercise at the Paul Scherrer Institute
