Abstract
Nuclear power plants in India are designed, constructed and operated based on the principle of the highest priority to nuclear safety. To deal with any unlikely situation of radiological emergency, the emergency preparedness and response plans are ensured to be in place at all NPPs prior to their commissioning. These plans are periodically reviewed and tested by conducting emergency exercise with the participation of various agencies such as Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, NDMA, district authorities, regulatory body and general public. On March 11, 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni followed by tsunami waves of height 15 meters above reference sea level. This resulted in large scale release of radioactive material from Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS. This led to the evacuation of a large number of people from the areas surrounding the affected nuclear power plants. The event was rated as level 7 event in International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). The event also revealed the challenges in handling radiological emergency situation in adverse environmental conditions, The experience of managing radiological emergency situation during Fukushima nuclear accident provides opportunities to review and improve emergency preparedness and response programme. The present paper presents the chronology of
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Singh, Hukum;
Dash, M.;
Shukla, Vikas;
Vijayan, P.;
Krishnamurthy, P.R., E-mail: vshukla@aerb.gov.in
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- Operating Plants Safety Division, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai (India)
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Singh, Hukum, Dash, M., Shukla, Vikas, Vijayan, P., and Krishnamurthy, P.R., E-mail: vshukla@aerb.gov.in.
Review of off-site emergency preparedness and response plan of Indian NPPs based on experience of Fukushima nuclear accident.
India: N. p.,
2012.
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Singh, Hukum, Dash, M., Shukla, Vikas, Vijayan, P., & Krishnamurthy, P.R., E-mail: vshukla@aerb.gov.in.
Review of off-site emergency preparedness and response plan of Indian NPPs based on experience of Fukushima nuclear accident.
India.
Singh, Hukum, Dash, M., Shukla, Vikas, Vijayan, P., and Krishnamurthy, P.R., E-mail: vshukla@aerb.gov.in.
2012.
"Review of off-site emergency preparedness and response plan of Indian NPPs based on experience of Fukushima nuclear accident."
India.
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author = {Singh, Hukum, Dash, M., Shukla, Vikas, Vijayan, P., and Krishnamurthy, P.R., E-mail: vshukla@aerb.gov.in}
abstractNote = {Nuclear power plants in India are designed, constructed and operated based on the principle of the highest priority to nuclear safety. To deal with any unlikely situation of radiological emergency, the emergency preparedness and response plans are ensured to be in place at all NPPs prior to their commissioning. These plans are periodically reviewed and tested by conducting emergency exercise with the participation of various agencies such as Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, NDMA, district authorities, regulatory body and general public. On March 11, 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni followed by tsunami waves of height 15 meters above reference sea level. This resulted in large scale release of radioactive material from Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS. This led to the evacuation of a large number of people from the areas surrounding the affected nuclear power plants. The event was rated as level 7 event in International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). The event also revealed the challenges in handling radiological emergency situation in adverse environmental conditions, The experience of managing radiological emergency situation during Fukushima nuclear accident provides opportunities to review and improve emergency preparedness and response programme. The present paper presents the chronology of the emergency situation, challenges faced and handled in Fukushima. Even though the possibility of a Fukushima type nuclear accident in India is very remote due to the low probability of a high intensity earthquake followed by tsunami at NPP sites, the efforts needs to be initiated from the regulatory point of view for an effective Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans of NPP sites were reviewed in the light of unique challenges of accident at Fukushima. It is realized that multi unit events are the realities that must be addressed as part of Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans. Inclusion of additional topics related to multi unit events in Emergency Preparedness Plan, loss of support infrastructure during accident etc should be included in Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan. The paper emphasizes use of redundant and diverse communication system, Decision Support Systems like IRODOS, evolution of site specific intervention levels, development of event based criteria instead of domain concept etc.}
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title = {Review of off-site emergency preparedness and response plan of Indian NPPs based on experience of Fukushima nuclear accident}
author = {Singh, Hukum, Dash, M., Shukla, Vikas, Vijayan, P., and Krishnamurthy, P.R., E-mail: vshukla@aerb.gov.in}
abstractNote = {Nuclear power plants in India are designed, constructed and operated based on the principle of the highest priority to nuclear safety. To deal with any unlikely situation of radiological emergency, the emergency preparedness and response plans are ensured to be in place at all NPPs prior to their commissioning. These plans are periodically reviewed and tested by conducting emergency exercise with the participation of various agencies such as Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, NDMA, district authorities, regulatory body and general public. On March 11, 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni followed by tsunami waves of height 15 meters above reference sea level. This resulted in large scale release of radioactive material from Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS. This led to the evacuation of a large number of people from the areas surrounding the affected nuclear power plants. The event was rated as level 7 event in International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). The event also revealed the challenges in handling radiological emergency situation in adverse environmental conditions, The experience of managing radiological emergency situation during Fukushima nuclear accident provides opportunities to review and improve emergency preparedness and response programme. The present paper presents the chronology of the emergency situation, challenges faced and handled in Fukushima. Even though the possibility of a Fukushima type nuclear accident in India is very remote due to the low probability of a high intensity earthquake followed by tsunami at NPP sites, the efforts needs to be initiated from the regulatory point of view for an effective Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans of NPP sites were reviewed in the light of unique challenges of accident at Fukushima. It is realized that multi unit events are the realities that must be addressed as part of Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans. Inclusion of additional topics related to multi unit events in Emergency Preparedness Plan, loss of support infrastructure during accident etc should be included in Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan. The paper emphasizes use of redundant and diverse communication system, Decision Support Systems like IRODOS, evolution of site specific intervention levels, development of event based criteria instead of domain concept etc.}
place = {India}
year = {2012}
month = {Jul}
}