ML20030B725
| ML20030B725 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 07/01/1981 |
| From: | Grimes B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | Olivier C SOUTH LOUISIANA MEDICAL CENTER, HOUMA, LA |
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| NUDOCS 8108240046 | |
| Download: ML20030B725 (2) | |
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This is in response to your letter of !* arch 26, 1981, requesting C
l infornation on the redical aspects of the energency plans for Waterford III. The answers to your questions are:
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The basic responsibility for deronstrating adequate preparedness rests with the utility. Louisiana power and Light has rade arrangerents with St. Charles Hospital in Luling, Louisiana, and
- he Ochsner Clinic in ?!ew Orleans, Louisiana, to provide treatrent of ill or injured personnel.
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The f!uclear Regulatory Cor.r:ission's requircrents for redical facilities are described on pare 69 of the enclosed f!UTEC-0654.
Our recorrendations for couipping the facilities are described in the enclosed report with a cover letter dated April 18,10F0.
3.
The f!RC cannot take a position on who financially assists a hospital to reet the requirerents for treatine patients exposed to radiation.
Ve have,,owever, established the criteria that the licensee deronstrate that such capability exists.
In sone instances, sore utilities have found it necessary to provide financial support to local redical facilities in order to demnstrate that this cap-ability exists.
4 The flRC cannet require that redical accor.nodations be available for treating large nurters of persons. One reason for this is the extrerely srall probability of an accident occuring that could cause such a concern coupled with a sfrultaneous exposure of large nunbcrs of the populace. /s you will note in Appendix 1 of flUREC-Or,54, JE our Energency Classification Systen is based upon potential for pg't.
releases, rather than on waiting for an actual release. Each co classification calls for predetemined actions which in the case of a general emergency would require consideration for evacuation
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et 8g Being a hospital director, ye. probably also are aware of the requirerents L
of the Joint Cornittee on Accreditation of the Arcrical Hospital Association, in One such requirerent is the need for a disaster plan which includes a 35 capability for treating radioactive contaninated and injured patients.
N Therefore, all accredited hospitals shoul have sore capabi?ity for treating such persons and if large nurber of contaninated and injured Q
-gpersons did rcquire treatrent, they i ave to be treated at sore o gyhe hcispitlils listed according to K ~ ~ an page tni of U EUJUCE4. -
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Mr. Charles H. Olivier
-2 JUL 031981 For more inforraation you may wish to contact Mr. Hall.Bohlinger of the Louisiana Nuclear Energy Division in the Office of Environmental Affairs.
He can be reached aT. P. O. Box 14690, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70898, or by telephone at (504)925-4518. I understand that he has been deeply involved in preparing the Louis ~iana Radiological Emergency Plan and may therefore ber abic to answer specific questions regarding hospital requirements.
Sincerely, Brian K. Grimes, Director Division of Emergency Preparedness Office of Inspection and Enforcement
Enclosures:
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NUREG-0654 2.
Report and Cover Letter Deted April 18, 1981 cc:
H. Bohlinger
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