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  title info:
    title: Nuclear Power Plant Emergencies in the USA
    sub title: Managing Risks, Demographics and Response
  name:
    name part: Kyne, Dean.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 359 p. 125 illus., 119 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Managing nuclear power emergencies is significantly different from managing other types of emergencies, including fire, flood, and other disasters because nuclear disaster management requires special technical skills and a rigid protocol which outlines detailed steps and procedure before an evacuation announcement could be made. It was evident that the impacts from a nuclear power core-meltdown accident were immerse, irreversible, and inevitable, as evident by evaluating the three historic core-meltdown accidents, namely Three Mile Island in 1997, Chernobyl in 1986, and Fukushima Daiichi in 2011. The three options for minimizing the risks associated with NPPs are suggesting elimination of all NPPs in operation in the United States, transforming inevitable risks to evitable risks, and transforming the current radiological plan into an effective emergency management plan. Being the latter option is the only viable one, this book provides a comprehensive understanding on effectively managing nuclear power emergencies in the U.S. The book presents detailed analysis on effectively managing nuclear power emergencies. In an attempt to illustrate minimizing the risks, factual answers to the key questions surrounding managing nuclear disasters are outlined. What are the risks associated with the nuclear power plants (NPP)? What are the problems associated with managing nuclear power core-meltdown accidents in the three historic accidents? Where are the geographical locations of the 99 commercial reactors in the U.S? Who are those exposed to potential risks associated with the NPPs? How could a projection of radioactive plume dispersion pathway be carried out using a spatial computer code, such as the Radiological Assessment Systems for Consequence Analysis (RASCAL) in case of a core-meltdown accident? Where would the radioactive plume go given weather conditions? Who are more likely to be exposed to the high level radiation dose during the core-meltdown accident? What are th…
  table of contents: The U.S. commercial nuclear power plants and their potential risks -- Communities hosting U.S. commercial nuclear power plants -- Nuclear Power Emergencies and their Management Process -- Simulation of nuclear power plant core-meltdown accidents -- Issues Associated with Nuclear Power Emergencies -- Conclusions.
  note: by Dean Kyne.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear energy
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Reliability
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods
  subject:
    topic: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Energy
  classification: GE300-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319503431
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50343-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 170202
    record change date: 20170202154934.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-50343-1