ABSTRACT
In 1986, the Three Mile Island Public Health Fund commissioned a national team of researchers to prepare an alternative emergency plan for the region around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. This nontechnical book, addressed to emergency workers, the public and policymakers, presents the results of their research in the form of a bold plan that is applicable to any nuclear plant emergency. It builds on the principles that local knowledge is valuable, not unsophisticated, that communities are adaptive, not inflexible, and that information must be made available and accessible to the people who most need it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |9 pages
The Model Plan in Context
part |2 pages
Objectives
part |22 pages
Nuclear Accidents and their Effects
part |15 pages
The Organization of Emergency Planning and Response
part |11 pages
Accident Evaluation
part |11 pages
The Emergency Information System
part |23 pages
Short-Term Protective Actions
part |5 pages
Long-Term Protective Actions
part |6 pages
Maintaining Effective Preparedness