The purpose of this document is to identify the elements necessary for utilities to prepare and implement a program of Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs) for use by control room personnel to assist in mitigating the consequences of a broad range of accidents and multiple equipment failures. This document applies only to the EOPs so designated; it does not address emergency ...

DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ON PROPOSED REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT VESSEL ASSESSMENT RESOLUTIONS OF THE AGREEMENT ON ...

... Field Study, Accident Prevention Safety Task Plan. ... August 1993 draft final integrated endangerement assessment/risk characterization ...

Accident management is examined from several different perspectives. The emphasis is on the role of the operating crew and the technical support provided to them before, during, and after an accident. The relationship among accident management, risk management, and emergency management is examined. The roles played by industry, ...

This report on the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant discusses the medical consequences of the accident to personnel and emergency forces exposed to high levels of radiation. Data is presented on the rdiation doses to populations surrounding t...

The draft supplement updates the environmental evaluation of accident-generated water disposal alternatives published in the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, utilizing more complete and current information. The staff concludes that the water c...

The purpose of this discussion is to introduce the session on the Progress on the Resolution of Severe Accident Issues. There has been much work in the area of resolution of severe accident issues over the past few years. This work has been focused on those issues most important to risk as assessed by comprehensive ...

The CRAC2 computer code has been adapted to the calculation requirements of Draft/Final Environmental Impact Statement (DES/FES) casework analysis for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. CRAC2 is a revised version of the CRAC (Calculation of Reactor Accide...

This report describes the Action Plan for the upgrade of the Chapter 15 Accident Analysis in the SRS Production Reactor SAR required for K-Restart. This Action Plan will be updated periodically to reflect task accomplishments and issue resolutions.

... Accession Number : ADA434096. Title : The IAU Resolutions on Astronomical Reference Systems, Time Scales, and Earth Rotation Models (Draft 4) ...

Accidents could occur during the transportation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. This paper describes the risks and consequences to the public from accidents that are highly unlikely but that could have severe consequences. The impact of these accidents would include those to a collective population and to ...

Information is presented concerning comments on reactor safety by governmental agencies and civilian organizations; reactor safety study methodology; consequence model; probability of accident sequences; and various accident conditions.

The proposed regulations in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 for hazardous waste disposal sites detail the amounts of financial responsibility required of owners or operators for sudden and non-sudden accidents at waste disposal sites. Both operating and post-closure accidents are considered. Owners or operators will obtain liability ...

This circular disseminates, explains, and endorses IMO resolution A.849(20), 'Code for the Investigation of Marine Casualties and Accidents,' which the IMO Assembly adopted on 27 November 1997.

The resolution directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chairman to review, disseminate, and apply the recommendations of the report on the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear facility in the Soviet Union. The report was issued jointly by the NRC, DOE, and representatives of the nuclear industry.

The CONTAIN code was developed by Sandia National Laboratories under the sponsorship of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to provide integrated analyses of containment phenomena. It is used to predict nuclear reactor containment loads, radiological source terms, and associated physical phenomena for a range of accident conditions encompassing both design-basis and ...

Body components of aviation accident fatalities are often scattered, disintegrated, commingled, contaminated, and/or putrefied at accident scenes. These situations may impose difficulties in victim identification/tissue matching. The prevalence of misidentification in relation to aviation accident forensic toxicology has not been well ...

The problem of super-resolution involves generating feasible higher resolution images, which are pleasing to the eye and realistic, from a given low resolution image. This might be attempted by using simple filters for smoothing out the high resolution blocks or through applications where substantial prior ...

Oil spill modeling is considered to be an important decision support system (DeSS) useful for remedial action in case of accidents, as well as for designing the environmental monitoring system that is frequently set up after major accidents. Many accidents take place in coastal areas implying that low resolution ...

This report gives the results of a Savannah River Site (SRS) Production Reactor risk assessment. Measures of adverse consequences to health and safety resulting from representations of severe accidents in SRS reactors are presented. In addition, the repor...

To provide to the Commission revised draft NUREG-1633 (Attachment 1), �Assessment of the Use of Potassium Iodide (KI) as a Supplemental Public Protective Action During Severe Reactor Accidents � for approval for public comment as directed in Staff Requirements- Affirmation

This document contains five chapters on activities at the proposed vitrification plant on the Hanford Reservation. Chapter topics include waste confinement and management, health protection, accident safety analysis, operation, operational safety requirements, and quality assurance. (TEM)

Containment buildings for power reactors have been studied to estimate their leak rate as a function of increasing internal pressure and temperature associated with severe accident sequences involving significant core damage. Potential leak paths through ...

Appendix A-5 of Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1199 'Alternative Radiological Source Term for Evaluating Design Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power Reactors' provides guidance - applicable to RADTRAD MSIV leakage models - for scaling containment aerosol concentra...

This paper describes a personal computer-based program (GENSOR) that utilizes a simplified time-dependent approach for predicting the radionuclide releases during postulated reactor accidents. This interactive computer program allows the user to generate simplified source terms based on those severe accident attributes that most influence radionuclide ...

In April 1989, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) published a draft report 'Severe Accident Risks: An Assessment for Five U.S. Nuclear Power Plants,' NUREG-1150. Because the information in NUREG-1150 will...

Combustion Engineering, Inc. has responded to the NRC requests for additional information of August 19, 1976 and August 25, 1976, on the Topical Report CENPD-180-P. In addition to responding to the eight NRC items, C-E has reviewed and provided comments on a draft version of an NRC Accident Analysis Branch paper entitled ''Re-Assessment ...

Volume four contains appendices for the following: radioactive and hazardous waste transportation risk assessments; treatment and storage facility accidents; waste minimization; technology development; and distribution of minority and low-income populatio...

The chapters in this circular reflect the six main subject areas described above. Each of the chapters contains a list of the relevant IAU resolutions, a summary of the recommendations, an explanatory narrative, and, in most chapters, a collection of form...

... based, semi-automated image analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery for nine locations in the Northwestern Hawaiian ... ...

... rule-based, semi-automated image analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery for nine locations in the Northwestern ... ...

Estimated shallow-water, depth maps were produced using rule-based, semi-automated image analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery for nine locations ... ...

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... Submitted by GAC PWD Southeastern Region � Barbara Dively � 2010.08.26 Adopted by Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Committee on Disabilities, 2010.09.25 ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is involved in the review of severe accident issues to satisfy Atomic Energy Act and National Environmental Policy Act considerations for the next generation of light water reactor (LWR) designs. The NRC is conducting reviews on a number of evolutionary and passive standardized reactors that are expected to result in certified ...

Concentrations of radionuclides originating from the Chernobyl reactor accident were measured as a function of time in air, rainwater, grass, cow's milk, vegetables and dust by means of high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy. Special attention was paid to grass and milk originating from the same meadows. Also, milk of cows temporarily kept inside ...

The major exercise objectives were: Exercise the participation of local, state, and federal agencies in the planning and conduct of the exercise; evaluate the interface of the accident response elements with these agencies; Exercise the command and control of the joint DOD/DOE accident response organizations; evaluate their effectiveness in accordance with ...

Current US Department of Energy (DOE) guidance on the performance of accident analyses supported an environmental impact statement (EIS) stresses a graded approach that emphasizes the most important risks, calls for the evaluation of frequencies as well as consequences for severe accident scenarios, and discourages the use of bounding analyses that ...

This report is the first step in the resolution of the Direct Containment Heating (DCH) issue for the Zion Nuclear Power Plant using the Risk Oriented Accident Analysis Methodology (ROAAM). This report includes the definition of a probabilistic framework ...

In this paper, nuclear licensing politics, procedures and regulatory trends of the national practices of both Korea and United States are reviewed and analyzed to begin with. The resolution process and regulatory status of severe accident issues, Unresolv...

The report presents the results of the accident sequence analysis portion of Task Action Plan A-44, 'Station Blackout.' Along with a companion report by ORNL on onsite AC power systems, a technical basis for the resolution of Task A-44 is provided. Probab...

Unresolved Safety Issue (USI) A-48 arose as a result of the large amount of hydrogen generated and burned within containment during the Three Mile Island accident. The issue covers hydrogen control measures for recoverable degraded core accidents for all ...

The International Programme on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident (IPHECA) have been initiated in mid-1991 following its endorsement by the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly in resolution WHA44.36. The report of the Management Committee Meeting...

In this paper, attention is limited to a single accident progression sequence, namly a station blackout accident in a BWR with a Mark I containment building. Identified as an important accident in the draft version of NUREG-1150 a station blackout involves loss of both off-site power and dc power resulting in ...

The Draft Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (WM PEIS) was released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for public comment on September 22, 1995. Prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Final WM PEIS is currently scheduled for release in late summer 1996. The Draft WM PEIS was published ...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee met to mark up two resolutions: H. Res. 424 and H. Res. 440. H. Res. 424 thanks the United Kingdom for its assistance in the April 14, 1986 operation against Libya. Despite objections to the raid and to including the British, as well as questions about the quality of the US response and about the President's compliance with the ...

With the release of WASH-1400 in draft form in August 1974, the Reactor Safety Study requested comments from a broad spectrum of society. Comments were requested from environmental groups, groups critical of nuclear power, lawyers representing environment...

This paper presents an overview of the results of the experimental program being conducted in the Power Burst Facility and the relationship of these results to certain safety and licensing issues. The safety issues that were addressed by the Power-Cooling-Mismatch, Reactivity Initiated Accident, and Loss of Coolant Accident tests, which comprised the ...