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]Ef7 Reprint from: " Proceedings of the Fif th International Meeting on Thermal Nuclear Reactor Safety", Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center,Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, Sept. 9-13,1984.

I Effectiveness of Early Evacuation of Small Areas, Shelter and Relocation in Reducing Severe Accident Consequences James A. Martin, Jr.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 ABSTRACT _

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t il Relatively moderate scale energency response actions by the can provide substantial reductions in the number and public chance of early and continuing health effects in the event of a major release of radionuclides from a nuclear power plant.

In the event of a core melt accident scenario, early, precau-

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tionary evacuation of areas within 2 to 3 miles and sheltering elsewhere in the early time frame can substantially reduce the

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r In risk of early fatalities--to close to zero in soma cases.

the further event of an actual major release of radioactivity to the atmosphere, expeditious relocation from highly contam-inated areas would be necessary. This paper will discuss the calculations and emergency response assumptions that lead to these insights. Since emergency response is unlikely, the applications of these insights are more likely to be found

• in other areas such as emergency planning, siting and pro-babilistic risk analyses.

Light water nuclear reactor (LWR) risk studies in the United States have con-ventionally assumed evacuation by the public from an area within {0 miles of This study a nuclear power plant in the event of a large accidental release.

has examined the benefits of a protactive action strategy employing an early evacuation of a relatively small crea near the site, plus sheltering by the public in the remaining areas, and relocation from highly contaiminated areas (hot spots) in the intennediate time frame.

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The calculations were performed conditional upon a postulated to be characteristic of the most severe accidental releases possible from a light water reactor and would result from a core melt accid u8 g n-fails early, and material is released directly to the atmosphere in a puff.

o The expected frequency of a release gf this nature has been estimated t Q&g about one per 100,000 reactor-years.

inventory of noble gases, 45 percent of radiciodine, and 65 percent of cesiu gm

agement decision made in the planning stage.

References I to 5 provide vanous protective action guidance for emerEency planners.

Table I lists doses presented in these re,ferences that do or could have the connotation of being a trigger level for emergency protective action, should they ever be observed. The R

British Emergency Reference Levels (ERLs) are independent of the pathway from source R

to individual. The U.S. Federal Radiation Council (FRC) doses are for the milk and food pathways. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doses are for the extema!

gamma and inhalation pathways. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doses are proposed for human food and animal feed. (The FDA also provided EALs for I-131, Cs-

al 137, Sr-89, and St-90 for environmental contammation levels). Herein, only the whole body not and thyrrid doses due to atmospheric releases will be considered, and PAGs of 5 and 25 or rem, respectively, will be used as representative of the guidance available. An appropnate

as sin caveat will acknowledge the important preventive PAG pmposed by the FDA (see footnote nw for Table I).

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Table 1 DOSE COMMITMENT GUIDES FOR EMERGENCY PLANNING

• EPA litC Brislah IDA*

PAGs FAGS ERIJ FAGS Catagery 1 Whole body 1-5 15 10 0.5-5 Thyroid 5-25 30 30 1.5--15 sone Fadnswal tissue 30 0.5-5 Marrow 15 10 0.5-5 Skia (beta) 60 0.5-5 Gonads 10 0.5-5 30 0.5-5 Lang Other 30 0.5-5 Dose u

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FDA PAGs art for food and agricultural pathwsys. At the lower PAG. milk. producing animals should be removed frorn pasture.

At the higher PAG. milk should be removed from commerce.

Table 2 MINIMUM ACTIVITY INVENTORIES (CURIES) UNDER POOR METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR PAGs OF 5 REM (WB) AND 25 REM (THY)

Searce terna (CIf" w. _, - N eo Dese Factor

• IrenMa'l 25 rum S rum isotope Fathway Cl-see)

(Thyrold) tWhole hady) 1 131 Mith 115.000 2.2 tahalation 395 630.

1-133 Mith 8280 30.

Inhalabon 174 440.

Cloud gamma 0 033 7.550.000.

1.580.000.

RemO-sec/m' concentranon<sposure in air. Chikh thyeuid dose conumament I

factors. Factor for cloud gamma dose taken as ll6 semi. infinite cloud muodel done factor for 0.8 MeV gammas

• At X/Q' = 10-* sec/m' (e.g. 10 m sticane height. F stabihty. 2 aus med. 2 km downwindL Typical annual releases (for compenson):

BWR 100.000 Ci noble gases; I Ci radeiodine.

PWR 200 Ci noble gases; 20 mci radoodme.

PAGs AND ACITVITY REI. EASES Table 2 lists the total activities of noble gases and radioiodines wtuch, if released under extremely adverse atmospheric dispersion conditions, could lead to offsite dose commitments of 5 rem whole body or 25 rem thyroid via the external (cloud) gamma, inhalation and milk pathways. For this example a dairy farm was assumed at 2 km downwind from a release point. In application, site-specific calculations would be made. The caMelanal procedure used to derive these inventories is presented and discussed briefly in Appendix A.

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Table 3 TYPICAL INVENTORIES FOR A IG00 MW(e) NUCLEAR i

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i 8 x 10' l.4 x 10" Core with 0.5-hr decay 3.6 x 10'IAV) 3.8 x 10"(AV)

Spent fuel storage pool 1.3 x 10* (MAX) l.3 x 10'(MAX) 2.2 x 10' 3,1 x 108 Shippmg eask 2.2 x 10' 2 x 10' Fuel assembly with 3Hisy decay 9.3 x 10' PWR waste gas storage tank 5.5 x 10' BwR waste gas decay Ime

" Gap" is a euphemism for the gas spaces in the fuel pellets and between the b

fuel pellets and the tube fetaddmg) holdmg the fuel pellets.

Except for the cloud gamma dose, the semi infinite cloud model* was used for the cal-e culations. For the cloud gamma dose under the assumed rneteorological dispersion conditions 7

(Class F atmospheric dispersion with a ground level release), the semi-infinite cloud dose t

factor for 0.8 MeV gamma rays was reduced by a factor of 6 to account for the finite extent m

of the cloud

• and the decrease of dose with depth in the body. All other assumptions used te are listed in the table. As shown in the table, releases of about 2.2 or 630 Ci of I-131 could lead to doses of 25 rem (thyroid) via the milk and inhalation pathways, respectively. A release of 1,510,000 Ci of gamma emitters could lead to a 5 rem (whole body) dose via the y

cloud gamma pathway under the assumed poor dispersion conditions. This presumes that no shelter or other protective measures were to be taken and that the exposed individual ri was to remain on the centerline of the cloud during its entire passage. For the milk pathway.

c dairy animals were presumed to graze uninterrupted on pasture contaminated by the center of the cloud. These are all very conservative assumptions, such that, for average meteor-L ological conditions, considerably greater radioactivity would have to be released for a PAG ej to be exceeded at about 2 km. Inventories of these radionuclides in plant systems which are less than those noted would not induce doses greater than PAGs.

2 et RADIONUCLIDE INVENTORIES IN LWR SYSTEMS L

n Estimates of inventories in LWR systems were collected for companson to the activities listed in Table 2. These are displayed in Tables 3 and 4. Many of these data were taken si dhetly from tables in References 7 through 10. Those estimated by this author, using data r

in these references, are as follows. The activity in a boiling water reactor (BWR) waste gas i

treatment system (WGTS) was calculated using the condenser off-gas radionuclide mix and

,f release rates (2 Ci/see total) presented in Reference 9. It was assumed that no gases escape iy from the WGTS and the resulting equilibrium activity is listed in Tables 3 and 4. All other 31 data in Table 3 were obtained from Reference 7. In Table 4, the core gap activity was taken to be 1% of the total noble gas and radioiodine inventory in Reference 7; this is consistent tt with assumptions in Reference 7. The maximum radioiodine activity in the demineralizer in a pressurized water reactor (PWR) after a primary coolant purge (after shutdown) was estimated to be identical to that in the primary coolant with 0.1% being passed to the waste c.

gas storage tank (WGST). For the noble gases, it was assurned that only 0.1% would rem p

in the demineralizer, with virtually 100% being passed to the WGST. The radioiodine activity j

listed in Table 4 for the BWR steam line was estimated from measured steam line c tration data presented in Reference 10 for four operating BWRs. These data were normalized ss I

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t a Table 4 TYPICAL NOBLE GAS AND HAIDGEN INVENTORIES FOR A 1000 MW(e) NUCLEAR POWER PLANT leventeries (cwies) 6==

Nehle genes Heissess Care with 0.5-hr decay 3.4 x 10' 7.2 x 17 GAPS (!% Cort) 3.4 x 10' 7.2 x le Spent fuel uorage pool 5.8 x 10* (Av.)

1.8 x 10*(Av.)

4.6 x 10'(W) 5.3 x 10' th)

GAPS 1.7 x 10' (Av.)

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1.4 x 10'(Max) 2.6 x 10$th)

Fuel assembly with 3<tay decay 4.1 x 10' 2.7 x 10' GAPS 4.1 x 10' 2.7 x 10*

PWR wage gas morage tank 9.5 x 10" 8.

aher pnmary coolant purge PwR demineraluer aher 9.5 x 10'

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Pnmary coolant purge BWR sacamtme (10' Itvhr) 10' Cilhr 25 CVhr BWR wnue gas treatment sysaem 5500 0.25 Shipping cask - gap activity 1.7 x 10' (Av.)

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to a 1000 MW (electric) power plant. All other system inventories are expected to be less I

than those listed in Tables 3 and 4.

LWR SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS OF PAGS By comparing the data in Tables 2 and 4 one can conclude that at a liabt water reactor only the failure of irradiated fuel and fuel cl&dding could lead to off-site doses in excess of

' PAGs via all three pathways considered herein, i.e., the external cloud gamma, inhalation and milk ingestion pathways. Release of the gap activity in one fuel bundle within a few weeks after reactor shutdown could lead to off-site doses in excess of whole body and thyroid PAGs via the inhalation and milk ingestion pathways, but not via the external samma i

pathway. However, spent fuel resides under about 30 ft of water, which can provide very relatively innocuous noble gases.

efficient scrubbing of a release.gM@'a$en aross failures of a seleca:d few systems ce Only thryoid PAGsfco~ulThe e-other than irradiated fuel. The BWR steam line break and the PWR steam generator failure

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accidents, which may release primary coolant, if not promptly terminated by appropriate corrective action, could lead to a thyroid PAG via the milk pathway. Tyhe iiroTediate protective action in such a case would be to protect milk by temovine =etected

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In this light, only a loss-of-coolant accident (IDCA) with the release of coolant directly to the annespiere, and dammge to irradiated fuel could lead to off-site doses clearly exceeding I

'PAGs. Only in the core of the reactor is there clearly enough energy to provide a driving Iorce necessary to project the requisite activity into the atmosphere in a short time. As discussed in Appendix B the primary coolant (water, steam) would be the principal motive force.

These perspectives are succinctly summarued in Table 5. E.T.p.cy planners can use

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has EQUALTO A PAG AT 1 MILE OR BEYOND it i (ATMOSPHERIC RELEASES) ma Outd's thrysid FAG l

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to gas trestraens sysicm could occasionally e====aa enough radiosodine for ra the FDA preventive PAG of 1.5 rems (ihyroid) to be enesedai if is one i

i all released, especulty channg pmods of rainfall.

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d such information timing, type, and extent protective actions appropriatelonhe-postnlated system failure (s). Some proiKh apGiis would be

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addresses actions to be takenfollowing a contaminating event, for selected events, e.g., on-site evidence of major core damage, immediate go: ;. mined protective actions could be

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'1 actions based on what may be observed at some future time is important. De word " initiate,"

j as in " initiate protective actions," is also important. What may be plassed to be initiated f

k at some future time based on predetermined action levels can be changed on an ad hoc basis at any time, for good cause. The word " warrant" is also important, as in " initiation of h

predetermined protective action (s) would be warranted." " Warrant" implies a very strong d

recommendation that is not to be dismissed lightly. But it is not an inevocable command

, I Further, protective actions can be initiated at any tirne based on what is actually occurring, I l "r

, or is perceived to be occumng at the time.

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The foregoing discussion is somewhat dissonant. Apparently, protective action decisions O

can be made now, which would be warranted for implementation at some future time. But E

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s 149 ed kc decisions can be made at any time. Until recently, the second opuon has been overriding in the planning process. Either covertly or overtly, in the past emerIency planners have opted for today's protective action decision to wit: we will appraise each situation as it unfolds at the time and make our protective action decision then. His is a common management decision made in the face of major uncertainties rega to make as many protective action decisions as possible before events occur, so as to minimize d

the number of decisions that would have to be made in an emergency. Dere exists to ay sufficient rrdiation protection guidance and knowledge of nuclear power plants to resolve f

the apparent dichotomy, remove the major uncertainties, and pmv be discussed in the following two sections. Practical applications will then be discussed.

STOCHASTIC AND NON STOCHASTIC RADIATION EFFECTS Two basic radiation protection objectives are fundamental: in a controlled radiation en-vironment (1), avoid nonstochastic effects, and (2) reduce stochastic effects to a level which f

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_is as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA)."_Nonstochastic radiation ef ects appear a doses generally above 25 to 100 rem for total body irradiation and well above such doses for individual body organs. These effects would be manifest within hours or days after the dose is delivered. (Delivery of the dose over a short time is presumed, i.e., in days or less.)

The effects include readily observable changes in blood cell counts at the low end (i.e.,25 50 to 100 rem whole-body dose), to death within a week to 60 days at the high end (i.e., 0 rads whole-body dose or greater). The 100 to 500 rad range is very narrow on the scale of possible doses, but it would require a truly momentus accident to induce such doses off-Stochastic effects are those for which no dose thresholds for damages are presumed. These site.

damages (effects) would occur randomly throughout the population of late survivors of an exposed population. Usually, the effect does not become manifest until after a delay (latent period) of I to 10 years, or so, and can occur at any time later. Leukemia is an example of this type of effect. The incidence rate of the effect is usually so low compared to

" naturally" occurring effects that it would be extremely difficult or impossible to ascribe an effect in a particular individual to the earlier radiation exposure as a cause-effect rela-tionship. Further, many of the effects may not actually occur at very low doses; they are, tndeed, presumed.

As will be illustrated below, the potential for the induction of nonstochastic effects is limited as a practical matter to the area within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant. Conceptually, such effects are possible beyond 10 miles, but with vanishingly small probability and only by using bizarre assumptions (such as presumptions of disasters without even leisurely emergency response). Stochastic effects, however, have no range (distance) limit under the radiation dose threshold for such effects. Further, stochastic effects are in proportion to the number of people exposed. For most LWRs the product of population and dose (not shown) increases monotonically with distance from the source, with half or more of the population ame immetimes called the collective dose) being accumulated beyond 50 miles in almost 2 his is true for any release occurring during dry weather. De bulk of the stochastic allcasejs effects could be accumulated within shorter distances for releases of particulates and water soluble materials during periods of intense precipitation. Such materials could appear in surface waters after being washed out of the atmosphere and be transponed long distances (over period s of at least weeks) to ocean waters. At any rate, stochastic effects are far-effects, predominantly, and protective actions in the near field would acidom, if everJm

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I RPG 150 is available to aid the emergency planner with regard to the far field and no prede lateri to so criteria have been developed.Thus, basic radiation protection objectives: avoid nonstoc princ h

chastic effects using ALARA, drive the emergency planners' primary attention to t e near surve field as a practical matter, i.e., to within about 10 miles of it contr li d uncontrolled withi the workplace, but they are transferrable to the postulated or conceptua ze l ning accidental release situation. Indeed, they are transferred in current emergency p an sour woul guidance, although seldom explicitly stated as such, T<

RADIATION PROTECTION GUIDES AND PROTECTIVE ACTIO use-The concepts of ALARA and PAGs for unplanned releases were clarified in the U.

d lgated three guidance documents sponsored by the U.S. Federal Radiation Council an promu

1960, as guidance for Federal agencies by Presidents Eisenhower, Kenn 1%I and 1964.2 '* 85 d l s

ommended for normal operations involving radioactive materials and with unplanne re ease of radioactivity in quantities of a few to many multiples of rout l

actions in the public domain. These thresholds are often taken as limits. PAGs clear y wer i di d"

I not intended as limits:"If the projected dose exceeds the PAG, protective actionis n cate Ra2 Thus, PAGs are trigger levels for action, not limits on doses. Nevertheless, the FRC (emphasis added).2

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pre il bl Ad should be for the conditions most likely to occur. If in a particular situation, there is ava a 51 l

m an effective action with low total impact, initiation of such action at a projected dose owe ad f i i itiation thta the PAG may be justifiable. If only very high impact actio hi l These apparently conflicting directions are fundamental to the problem being a remark added.)

N The Radiation Protective Guidance was promulgated "for the guidance of Feder here.

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in the body as a result of their (sic) occurrence in the environment." The Radiano i

Guides (RPGs) are expressed as annual dose rates a fr a

fi bone, and 0.5 remfyear for the bone marrow.In addition, the FRC established g

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measures as necessary Except in a very general sense, the FRC did not specify the meaning of the as ir1 ld vary measures", other than to state that "the character and import of these actions cou Fe ;

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RPG guidance. This was not done until the Protective Action Guide concept was established later by the FRC, ia 1964. As discussed above, it was then that the FRC limited the uncertainty to some extent when it established PAGs which would warrant protective actions The principal thrust of the RPG guidance dealt with situations for which greater than normal surveillance and monitoring would be warranted.

It is necessary to interpolate between the RPG and PAG guidance to discover where control measures including disruption of the public would begin to be warranted. Clearly, within RPG Ranges I and 11, such disruption would not be warransed. Here, controls on the source would be indicated. Clearly, at or above PAG Ievels, prosective (vs. other) actions would be warranted. Thus, Range til marks the demarcation range.

To quantify this range, the FRC pmvided the following ranges of transient intakes for use with respect to the graded scale of actions:

mad 6emectide masse III(pCvday intake; I.131 0.0001 - 0 00l*

g St.90 0.0002 - 4.002 St89 0 002--0.02 For small children. For adults, the intake rate would be ten times higher.

For Range II, the daily intake ranges were established as a factor of 10 lower than for Range Ill. Range I encompasses zero intake to the lower limit for Range II.

De upper limits for daily intake for Range 111 of the RPGs can be compared to derived preventive environmental emergency action levels provided by the U.S. Food and Dmg Administration.$ hese action levels are for monitored levels of radioactive contamination in the environme'nt:

Preventive FAG Total intaba in (unonitored varim6te) body Nuclide (pCl/t in snak)

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The protective action appropriate at these levels would be to remove grazing dairy herds from contaminated pasture to protect the sensitive milk pathw1ry. Removal of such herds from pasture would cut this pathway at its source, the pasture, and if instituted at an appropriate early time could virtually climinate the necessity for impounding milk supplies a few days later.

Comparison of the FRC Range ill levels and the FDA preventive PAG derived levels shows that protective actions for the milk pathway would not be warranted until the FRC Range III levels were exceeded by a considerable factor, i.e., of the order of a factor of 10 l

or more (This assumes a nominal intake rate of I ( of milk per day.) Thus, an interpolation l

between the RPGs and the PAGs clearly indicates that throughout the RPG ranges, fmm I through til, contmls on sources would be indicated actions. Protective actions would not be warranted until contamination levels well exceed the Radiation Pmtection Guides. This conclusion is a logical interpolation of existing Federal guidance, however, and cannot be

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Before turning to the practical application of these radiological protection concepts in the emergeccy planning (vs. response) phase, it is well to consider explicitly two important pr aspects of the emergency planning problem which are not discussed in current protective rei action guidance. First, neither the total area nor the total population that might be affected be,

by an accidental release is addressed in cunent guidance. This is unfortunate.

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Clearly, what might be reasonably achievable over a small area or by a small number _of ac persons might be extremely difficult or practically impossible to achieve over a large area as,

or by a large number of persons. If one. farm is ever contaminated so a low level (e.g., FRC Range 111), protective (preventive) action might well be prudent under ALARA. If a whole Pr '

i state or region of the U.S. were to be contaminated at the same level, removal of all grazing pr-dairy herds from pasture could be very disruptive. Such contamination could occur because pl.

of atmospheric weapons fallout, for example.

it As a result, current emergency planning throughout the world is incomplete as regards 5

definitive plans for controls over the very large areas that could be contaminated by a major rru nuclear power plant accident, or by weapons fallout. De planning for the food pathways ai today is limited to predetermined conditions for surveillance and monitoring and the estab-pri lishment of control points. It is weak in addressing the major problems that would be th.

associated with the disruption of large areas of commerce by the institution of protective elk and preventive actions on a massive scale.

ho his problem awaits resolution. In the meantime, ad hoc rather than predetermined actions rei would be instituted if the need ever arises. In essence, decision-makers are forced to decide un today to delay some major projective action decisions regarding the far field until later.

su ne second problem regards the method or approach of the use of PAGs in the planning th.

process. De focus on projected doses is nearsighted, at best, in the planrung stage. De of result is the prevalence of plans for environrnental monitoring as a pecursor to protective

' actions, regardless of the magnitude of an accident. In such cases the plan,ers avoid protective is

~ action _ decisions in the planning stage. Such decisions are lett for the s*sponse stage. De in i

result is a ostent, fundamental weakness: little is added to the provisions _ for safety since or

,monitorina and ad hoc decisiens would surely be performed in a response situation even in ye the absence of a special plan to do so.

an ll 1 his problem may have its source in the FRC definition of a PAG, which concludes with Al the phrase "... following a contaminating event." For many enacern1 cases the phrase may be appropnate. But for some easily visualized cases it is inappropnate. For example, for fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, there is no a priori need to plan to await t,

actual contammation of grazing herds in the eastern U.S. before fallout anives from the west, especially where rainfall is intercepted. Grazing dairy herds could well be removed so from pasture beforehand. Such a minimal protective action could be planned for appropriate a

f cases, especially when stored feed is abundant. At this time no such decision has been made y

beforehand. Rather, the planning decision is to monitor first and act later.

his problem is even more visible for the case of plans for responses to accidents at nuclear power plants. In this case, the potential problems are well known, the locations of da er la the plants are known, and the necemry conditions for the potential for PAGs to be exceedni u

are also known. Yet, many plant, federal, state, and local agency emerEency plans call for protective action decisions to be made solely on an ad hoc basis, based on projected doses g,

and radiological monitoring information at the time.

y ne emphasis on environrnental monitorina as a precursor to protective action has its place, i.e. for <=ller accidents.'*.But, for a major accident involving core melt.h

>r y' should be an extremely rare event, the reactor containment should isolate the event from the outside world, so there should be little or no radioactivity emananng from the plant into l

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Yet, by hypothesis, the core would be meltias

• a grave prospect. By prevalent concepts, protective action would not be indicated unless the containment failed widt the possible release of large amounts of radioactivity to the environment in a puff. Pateady, this would be somewhat late for protective actions to be initiated. His is a direct resuk of the use of the literal definition of the PAG, the reluctance of planners to psJm.idne when protective actions would be warranted (and unwarranted), and the emphasis on radiological monitoring as a precursor to protective action.

Rat the latter position is untenable for LWRs can be illustrated by a very sunple example.

Presume that the U.S.E.P.A whole body PAG of 5 rems would be the engger level for protective action during an emergency, which it is touted to be in most LWR emergen:y plans. For argument's sake, rske this absolutely literally. Operationally, during an emergency it would require a measured oose rate of the order of I rem /hr projected to be sustained for 5 hr for the PAG to be exceeded, or 5 rems /hr projected to be susttined for I hr, or 500 mrem /hr project =1 to be sustained for 10 hr, or a similar combination. All of this without a projected wind shift during the projected release period. Using the exarnpic inventories, presented earlier, required to induce a PAG at 2 km (1.25 miles) downwind, it is obvious that at least rnegacuries per hour of radioactivity would have to be in the effinent stream at the source, projected to be sustained for hours. On a normal day, scores of snegacuries per hour would have to be in the effluent stream. In brief, there would have to be an accidental release of ominous proportion befne protective action would be recommended to the public, under this concept. Although such a response scenario is conceivable, a plas to respond in such a manner is not a prudent plan, it provides little in the way of gpotential benefit for the public over and above what would surely occur without a plan. In short,it is not much of a plan.

As will be explaia~i in next y, at this time the attention of v.

...cy planners planbtitions that should and shoedd nor prompt th initiation of predeterminederdective actions offsite, As will be seen, under sin is being focused otr'predeterrr.i b.v operators at 'the plant w%1d become the implementers of protective action decisions made years earlier by planners. His "act first, monitor later" concept was desm succinct!

and to the point by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measure NM 4~ Y Appendix C to NCRP Report No. 55;"

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y t'<=amneasures to avoid milk contamannunn amt the radsauon exposure to mit unus sesulung frorn a 2

nuclear facility accident mua be imia===adimmediantly an accident if they are to be effectrue. The protective actions to be considered require breakingh ~1*

wtuch contarnmaana spreads menefy. the pasture-cow-milk. man pathsay.

Since the posential for accidental radiation exposure of the populauon through milk snay esammi for many miles I

from the accident site; and since the snagnitude of exposure through milk may be 400-700 emus greaser thanf l through inhalauon. the need far appropnane (earty) protective action is of paramount import dairy farmers in the (likely) affected land area are alened immediately and insenacted by the appropnase stase and l

local officials to move their caule from pasture to sacred feed. This breaks the cycle of transammmea of radaosctivwy contaminanon at the root and must be accomphshed immedsagely.

Within 48-72 hours, contaminased land areas can be idenoried by ground and amal surwas. Only those farmers in contanunaaed land areas would be requaed to keep their cattle ce stored feed. Ttss atmously reduces i

j the pouibihty of fluid nulk contaminauon. " The parendwocal words were added by shas ashor.

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thrust of current emergency planning.

g EMERGENCY CLASSIFICATION SCHEME-PREDETERMINED AC FOR PREDETERMINED PLANT CONDITIONS Based in part on the foregoing concepts, a four-level emergency classification sc ld currently being implemented for nuclear power plants. Each class of emergency wou y

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area emergency, and (4) general emergency.

his nomenclature is standard in the U.S. industry to assure the commonly underst import of an emergency classification, i.e., the very names scope the extent o b,

of an emergency and predetermmed actions.He operator examples of predetermined events are presented in Tab gency action levels) which would indicate the presence of iir 4

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r + l ititl :e dits a Unusual Events are in progress or have oc-Loss of off-site power er on-sne ac power event cwred which indcase the poten-capabihty.

sial degradation of the level of Fire lasting more than 10 mun.

safety of the plant. No radioactive Secunty threat or attempial sabotage.

releases requinns off site re-Contaminated patient transported to hospital.

I sponses expected.

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execeded.

Reactor scram funplanned shuidown).

Alert Events are in process or have oc-Increase in radiation levels in-plant by a factor of curved which involve an actual or 1003.

PAential substantial degradaron Complete loss of any functson needed for plant of the level of safety of the plant.

cold shutdown.

Any radmactive teleases expected Fire potentially affecting safety systems.

to be small fractions of EPA PAG Ongoing secunty m..y.

exposure levels.

Loss of all on-site de power.

Pnmary coolant leak rase grenser than 50 gal / min.

High radaological effluent release rate (>5Ci/

sec).

Site area Events are in progress or have oc-Fire compromising the functaons of safety emergenry curred which invol-e actual or systems.

likely snajrv failures of plant Loss of all vital on-sne de power for more than functens needed for the potec-15 min.

tion of the public. Any releases Loss of off-site power and loss of on-site ac not expected to exceed EPA Pro-power for more than 15 mun.

tective Action Guide exposure Loss of coolant accident (LOCA) greater than levels except possibly near the makeup pump capacity.

sate boundary Degraoed core with possible loss of coolable geometry.

Evacuation of plant control room and control of shutdown sysaems not established from local sta-taons in 25 rrun General Events are in progress or have oc-Loss of physical control of the facility.

emergency curred which involve actual or Any major internal or enternal event which could imminent substantial core degra-cause massive common damage to plant safety j

dation or core melt.

systems (e 3.. major uncontrolled fires in safety systems; major earthquakes).

Loss of two of ihree fissaaefroduct barners with clear potential fue loss of dse third.

Entremely high levels of radiation in containment (e g.,10.000 R/hr or greener).

For pressurued water reacsors (PWRs)

Small and large LOCAs with failure of emer-

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Loss of feedwater and condcesate systems fol-lowed by loss of emergency feedwater.

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For boiling waner tractors (BWRs)

Transient with failure no control reactor power (e.g., failee to SCRAM).

LOCA with ECCS failure.

Reactor shundown (e g., SCRAM) but decay heat removal sysaems fail to functon for sev-l eral hours.

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FOUR LEVEL EMERGENCY CLASSIFICATION SCHEME These cumple initiatins cond tio= are nos EALs. EALs are the predetennined obsembles anociated These are specific predetermined examples only, presensed as sids in scoping pouMe events and with the initiating conddaans.

associased ernergency classes. Other condaions may occur for which the plant opersnors aws decide 6%,a an emergency clan on an ad hoc basis. essing these examples as guides. Other A -- 4 conditions p

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~ Patently, general emergencies should be extremely rare events. Indeed, they should never now.

occur. Concommitantly, initiation of predetermined protective actions should never occur.

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Yet the action level is so high it should never be reached.

De importance of the operator in this scheme cannot be overemphasized. Re operators thev rse always present. Dey must scope their putAcm. De operators

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to follow. De. action levels for general emergencies have been management and asced to by state and local agencies before the event. De state and agencies agree to the predetermmed action levels and yicdctermined actions, also lo the event. Ind-i, the planners and decision-makers who made the initial decisions may no

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longer be in evidence or in positions of authorirv at the time. De plans are laid with the understanding that protective actions off. site (will not be initiated without grave cause)an will be ini[ ate 6artyJi.e., well before a major release) for sufficient cause.

I he other thrWmergency classes have equally well founded bases.De unusual event class was developed in response to numerous state and local agency requests to receive I

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un=ut event "ci,.crgency" class was established. For this class, notifications of various presclected individuals is the pudctermined action. His g

be recommended to the public for events in this class. This has been decided now.

d he alert emergency class would require additional stafYing of on-site emergency centers as the predetermined action. De purpose of this emergency class is very simple: source

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v 157 control. For this class, events threatening irradiated fuel would be in progress which the operators could not control within 15 min of their awareness, and which would involve significant degradation of plant systems needed for control ofirradiated fuel. Radiation levels could be normal. An uncontrolled fire in plant secondary safety systems would be an example for this class. The immediate predetermined actions would require the addition of a number of preselected individuals of various expertise to the plant staff within about 30 min of the alert declaration. Dis assures (but does not guarantee) that a variety of skills would be called to the plant, or made available, in a timely fashion to help control whatever situation occurs, of the noted type. State and local agencies would also be notified for this class; simple awareness is all that would be required of them for this class. No piblic notifications are planned for thi. class.

De site area emergency class would require the staffing of both on-site and off site emergency centers _. A high level of emergency preparedness is predicated. Radiation levels

~may be normal. An uncontrolled fire in a primary plant safety system is an example of an event which could trigger this class. If radiation levels were or could be elevated, radiological monitoring teams would be dispatched both on-site and off site. Notification of the public would not be mandatory, but could commence in order to control rumors that might be caused by the planned high level of activity (not necessarily radioactivity) in the area, as by interception of shortwave radio signals, for example. If radioactivity in small to moderate levels is actually released, low impact protective actions may be instituted but on an ad hoc rather than a predetermined basis, based predominantly on environmental monitoring data.

Removal of dairy herds from pasture in nearby areas to protect milk may be recommended, for example, especially where rainfall would be intercepted. his class corresponds closely to the classical emerge se p response)mergency action scheme conforms in both letter His predetermined, and spirit to the basic raw y,Gection guidance discussed abo _ve.

SHELTER AND EVACUATION PLANS The w kiertriined psmive action scheme for a general emergency calls for graded scales o(timing and sizepof off site areas that would be affected. laitially, persons in all w

s areas within 10 miles of plant would be notified to take shelter as available, shut windows and doors, and listen to radio and television for further instructions. Prompt notification means must be m place continuously, and periodically exercised, to assure the capability to provide the initial notification of the public within 15 min of the general emergency dec-laration." Dese means include administrative and physical rneans. (These prompt notifi-cation means should not be confused with the early notification scheme.)

It should be noted that this is not a " hair trigger" scheme,30 min could elapse between the onset of extensive core damage and the notification of the public. These 30 min would

'be available for assessment and corrective actions by the operators and reduction of the emergency class. If, in 30 min from the onset of the action levels, the conditions for a general emergency were to persist, predetermined notificauons of the public for protective actions would be initiated. These 30 min are not provided by design, however; rather, the planning recognizes that it would require such elapsed times to carry out various necessary actions by plant and notification officials.

With these comments as background, the oredetermined immediase and early evacuation and shelter plans" can be scoped succinctly as follows:

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cladding failure), the public within about 2 miles should be instrucam! to evacuate where possible as a precautionary measure., All other persons would be instructed to femmin in available shelter. (At a few highly ~ congested, high population density sites, only those persons within the 2-mile radius might receive the earfiest notification, although provisions for the waming capability would extend for about 10 miles.")

After the immediate notifications of the public, if the operators cannot assure that the 4.

situation is under control, persons within 5 miles would be instr'.et to evacuate, when feasible before a major puff remase. If control is assuredly established, all persons "beyond 2 miles would be instructed to reinain in available shelter.

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• release of radioactivity actually occurs, the following instructions f should be provided to the public; those evacuating should continue; thrse in shelters yF h 5.

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possible, of areas of identified high contamination would be recommended. Television would be very helpful in this situation. Evacuation in directions perpen6cular to the puff traverse should be recommended, where possible, as this would sequire the least amount of time.'"

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1. N the considerations that led to these distances will be explored, but the foRowing is not to l

,be taken as a classical argumect of proof.

["k For core melt accidents at nuclear power plants, the potentials for stochastic and nonsto-l chastic radiation effects in individuals can be illustrated using Figures I through 3. In Figure I the qualitative relationship between dose and distance for an atmospheric acicase is shown.

he upper curve in Figure I shows the theoretical relative reduction in done with downwind distance (not necessarily line-of sight distance). De lower curve shows the relationship as g_

it most often occurs as a practical matter. Dese curves are normalized to a distance of 0.5 mile, which is the average distance from a LWR to the site property line. As illustrated in Figure _l, there is a major reduction in dose potential between 0.5 and 2 miles, with a smaller ij dose reduction potential between 2 and 5 miles. His reduction is due to atruaspheric dilution.

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~Or to a speedy egress of such small areas should be extremely rare to nonexistent. In the rare

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acted distances for 4 hr after the pauage of a puff was assumed eI jy should be more efficacious in high ppulation density areas, as compared to low population

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De Potential for avoidance of nonstochastic effects in the event of a major nuclear power oc plant accident is illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. De assumptions made far the calculated th results in these figures were: population density of 1000 persons / square mile (a very high density); sheltering for 4 hr after passage of a puff by the population outside various early tu evacuation zones; carly evacuation (before a release) by persor s within vanous distances of a

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the plarm and the propulsion of major fractions of the inventxy of radionuchdes in the core yi

. of a 1000-MW -electric reactor (highest power level) into the atmosphere, at ground level, s< i in a puff, with very short warning time (I hr). The calculations were made using the ss }

' Consequences of Reactor Accidents Code (CRAC) developed for the Nuclear Regulatory gc, 2

Commission.22 22 ne sensitivity tested in these calculations was the probability and numbers of early i

fatalities and injuries as a function of the distances within which carty evacuations were

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As illustrated in Figure 2, for even this extreme accident early evacuations of areas within 2 miles of a plant would substantially reduce the chance of an early fatality. As discussed n,

further below, early fatalities at the longer ranges would be caused by a coincident rainfall.

au As illustrated in Figure 3. carly evacuation within 2 miles would reduce the probability of an early injury by a factor of nearly ten as compared to the immediate shelter assumption.

m to j Early evacuation of areas within 5 miles reduces this relative probability by a factor of fifty.

But, at one. third of the LWR sites in the U.S. the number of residents within 5 miles is large,10,000 to 100.0003* Evacuation by such large numbers of persons is infrecuent (see below) and would be very disruptive, and could require a few hours to accomplish. At these

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Two observations are helpful to the planner in this regard. First, all of the calev'ated early injuries beyond 2 miles (illustrated in Figure 3) resulted from rainfall situations and were due to the high ground level dose rates resulting from heavy deposition a f radionuclides on the gmund after plume (puff) passage.'2J2 Second, th. area of heavy coatamination would not be wide. thwmally, it would be possible to wah out'of the contananated area in a d

reasonably shut time: This potential is illustrated in IIgure 4 in which the full width of a puff is shown as a function of distance along it's track, for tv.o atw$-ic dispersion conditions. For reference, the width of a 22.5* sector (1/16 of a circle, corresponding to the i

width of sectors for the sixteen cardinal compass directions, N, NME, IE, etc.) is also p

shown in the figurt.

As illustrated in Figure 4, at 5 miles the " footprint" of a puff slyld be less than 2 miles wide. At 10 miles along the trajectory, the width would be less tt 114 miles. In either case, the averste person normally could walk easily out of a highly cot tt n nated area in a relatively y

^d short time (an hour or so). Interestingly, given early warning and gest,inspractions, a person e 4 could walk away crots. wind fmm plumes and avoid plume et ures estirely.*' but this would be an idealized case most often. However, in those instets when the plume could be seen (see Appendir. D), walking away from a plume could occur as at natural reaction for some persons.

Thus, evacuation of contaminated areas between 2 red 5 miles should le quite feasible normally for most persons in the vicinity of at least two-thirds of the T.uR sites in the U.S.

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substantial in highly congested areas. Early identification of areas of calms and precipitation would be extremely important in the event of an actual major release; there is no practical limit on the distance to which such effects could be manifest.

PERSPECTIVES ON EVACUA* DON A few perspectives regarding evacuations of historical record are noteworthy. Ferergency evacuations by tieaad= of persons are not uncommon indeed, in the U.S. sizeable evac.

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$r untions occur with a ftstmv of f/w ek to O days." Noteworthy is the fact that injuries

'/m d4, and deaths due to the evact.atbns, per se,#hre rare; historically, a risk of about one death j gp per million per5or.s movingjs oherved,." Trauma and fright are normally observed, but T

panic is rare.h Widespremi parh_b5 not been observed in evacuations. Often, more tire.

p*fh isgumed by av* vities in coming to a decisions to order an evacuation than t>v tts f*'p evacuees leaving an area. Iv=3, the latter observation was one of the orincipal motivating f'acton fo the deveby, int oTpredetermined action criteria.

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_ Precautionary evacuations are common."," Some cryptic information :egar ations which occurrec aunng the period March 1976 through June 1978 is presented in Table

8. These were compiled from news clippings by this author. De observation that no deaths or injuries due to the evacuations, per se, is often made in news accounts. Other compilations confirm these general observations." Coincidentally. as this is being written (December 14,1982) 17,000 evacuees are returning to a "5 mile area" (sic, CBS News) in the southem U.S. and 5000 persons are leaving an area in the westem U.S. No injuries were observed in the forn er incident, at leut._De 17,000 evacuees live near a nuclear power plant currently j

i under censtruedon; the plant was not the cause of the evacuation.

The dynamics of the evacuation process can be complicated. Analyses of the process most often center on roads, intersections, and queueing theory. But the complications should not 5

y hide the facts of the matter. De pio:ess of leaving an area is common. A helpful perspective on the matter can be obtained by perusal of the information in Figure 5, which illustrates

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road capacities using the three assumptions noted in the figure caption. Curve A in this figure is for the case of the National Safety Council safe driving admonition: maintain a 2-g see separation time between vehicles. As illustrated in Figure 5. road capacitics exceed 1000 mE.

vehicles /hr/ lane at speeds as low as 10 mph. In fact, using the 2-sec rule, speeds over 10 mph add httle to the road capacity. A capacity of 2090 vehic!cs/hrilane is common in a j

heavy traffic situation (see curve C of Figure 5).

From this perspective, one can easily understad the observation noted in a U.S.E.P.A.

g study" that evacuations of up to 15,000 persons /hr/ road have been observed in evacuations b.y large numbers of persons (the average occupancy per vehicle was observed to be four).

It is t!so understandable why many thousands of tmva have been observed to evacuate p

an area in a few hours or less. De emptying of a sports stadium is a common examplen)

It has long been known *>' that waming time and motivation of the public are the(key 2

Al clements of a successfulevscustics. Provisions in an emergency plan for reductionof wamg Jj times and for strong motivating mswctions are the key elements of an evacuation plan.

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impediment to evacuation, or coa.se (.we the following section3n entrapment scenarios).

Such major impediments to evacuation could be identified quite easily at any time and a Jj contingency immediate shelter recommendation wouW be the obvious choice at such a time.

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same in either case. In essence, the public protects itself in an emergency, by and large.

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l.500 5/1508 No.cogdoche-n 1.000 Chemical espknion - train wreck.

6/2108 11 p m.

Salonika. Oc.n 600.000 Earthquake.

6/30r78 Deurehen l a.

3.000 Rail car gas leak istyrene gest.

4/848 Browmon. Neb.

1.500 30-car derailmens - tank car c'aploded Ephmphorous).

I 4/808 Pmeville. Ky.

2.000 Liquid pmpane tank car leak.

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Kingeurg. Ind.

2.500 Fire as chemstal plant - sonic fumes.

l Steubenville. Ohio 2.000 Chemical plant emplosion - totic chlanne gas.

3/15n8 p m.

3/8n8 Day Vick4urg, Mns.

1.200 lawcticide tank at chesmcal plant esploded.

3/2n8 Galas. Va.

200 IN10 galliquifmf pmpane spill.

2/27n8 Youngwown. Fla.

250 Ruptured railway car - chlorine pas - wind shift ansed.

2/27ns Waverly. Tenn.

2.000 Derailed tank car esplosion - volatile propane l/28/78 a.m.

Damascus. Ark.

500 trak frorn fuel tank initrogen tetronidel.

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Pond Eddy Pa.

32 11.000 gal acetaldehyde spill.

12/2907 Goldonne. La.

800 Chemical freighs train crue.

11'29/77 3 a.m.

Norfolk Neb.

1.000 Tank car ca.rying propane gas supeured.

11/28/77 Night Battle Creek. Neb.

771 Propane gas leak from tant rar.

11/8/77 Noon Manon, la.

1.000 Tank car carrying propane pas rupeured 1915n7 St. Marys. Kan.

600 Tonic fumes - unknown origin.

i IWl307 Day Chananoops. Tenn.

809 Gas fumes - clementary school.

148/77 Day Muffand. Mich.

2.000 poisonous chlonne gas leak - frosn chemkal plant.

i 10/4/77 Day Kansas City Ma.

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B lernensary achiud - cartam seinnnakte leak.

9/19/77 3 a m.

Berryville. Ark.

2.600 Fire - fertiliser warehouse - ammonia and nitric artd.

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Watwks. fil.

2.000 Railroad car derailed - ethylene oside.

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Rockwood. Tenn.

S.200 Chemical truck wreck.

S/17/77 3 a.m.

Insernational Falls.

2.000 Rail car leaked chlanne gas.

I Minn.

12/1106 3 p.m.

Baton Rouge. La.

10.000 Chlorine gas leak - chemical plant.

Tonic furnes releseed - 2 tank cars. Chloro =ulfonic acid and S/29n6 Censerville. III.

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information is not presented to make a case for the cavalier treatment of evacuauons.

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=>>ch T1h as a core melt at a nuclear power plant, trauma and fright in the public domain wouldJ exgwW and WestmaA=hle, but broadcast panic would not be expected _. The expeditious movement by un to at least many -d-s~d of persons should be slow-risk _ activity. Contrary, ifalse impressions by many radiological emergency planners are a serious 6-i-: iment to t development of evacuation criteria _and plans.

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cccy management scheme Objections to this predetermined protective action and ew=is i

can be raised. indeed, it is not perfect. There is no guarantee that all penons would receive exposures at levels as low as reasonably achievable given their particular situations a ll times. Evacuation is not a panacea. In retrospect, after an accidental release, it could we be determined that some persons left a perfectly safe area only to have arrived at an unsafe area during transit. 'the special case of interceptmg and traveling with a puff is discussed in some detail in Appendix C. Many such scenanos can be readily m='ind for which the p. A;crir.ined action scherne would not be the best, or an available, w However, coincidences of core melt and==iar impediments to speedy egress of sinall areas by most people should be extremely rare. Exa=dient shelter of some so a

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'd, and is

,a possible. In these cases, many people could be harmed. For the most_gLeisuch scenarios e

are entrapment by definition: by postulate there is no way out. These pomitaan are most e-disturbing to those who seek absolute guarantees of safety, no matter what the circumstances I

Absolute guarantees are not available and are not given._Rather these action plans are of the nature of alimited warranty hey have been devised based on an extensive background i

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of thousands of potential accident scenarios, and abundant information tegarding the response o

of the public in threatening situations. Dey call for early, normally feasible protective ad

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De management of emergency preparedness for the nuclear power industry centers around the concept of predetermined actions to be initiated for predetermined conditions. De predetermined conditions and actions are embodied in four scoping emergency classes. De plant operators would have 15 min to contml predetemuned situations after they become aware of them, or officially declare the appropriate emergency class. For plant conditions which exclude the clear potential for core melt, notification, assembly, and corrective actions htl are predetermined. For actual or imminent core melt conditions immediate precautionary e

evacuations of nearby areas are planned, even in the absence of effluent radiametivity. The latte be extre I rare to nonexistent events. Immediate protective actions are determi, to beamwarrant, for $ncore meitivents. After the initiation of the pre-

[k w.anuMJ actions, augiiiimteil staff would proceed as necessary hawd on actual conditions at the time. His is an "act first, monitor later" scheme for major accidents and a " monitor Pe first, act later" scheme for lesser accidents.

Under this scheme the plant operators would be the key individuals in the initial phase 01 an emergency response. His is appropriate. Dose first on the scene unust scope the j

magnitude of a problem. By predetermining the actions appropriate for pi nmined con-d i

m citions, the ernergency planners have provided the operators with the v.nhoney and respon-sai i

L sibility to implement a graded scale of predetermmed actions appic.r n, a wide spectrum v

r cc l of predetermined possibilities. Appmpnate actions should be initiah earlylnder diis scheme.

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assuage a deteriorating situation before it becomes senous For situations which would threaten the public, the predetermined acten levels should pmmpt the initiation of feasible f

rul protective actions by the public carly, well before a release occurs, to provide the nearby public with time for an appropriate protective response.

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emergency. ne requirements for appropnate. early and predetermined resporises of a graded P

_ scale, provide a high degree of assurance that eim&sy responses, at licenwe, federal, state and local levels 4ill be timely and in proportion to the levels of the threat at the time.

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October 1975. Availatmlery: NTls. Spnngrield. VA. 22161.

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2239. USNRC. Washington. D.C.. December 1982.

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Apnl.1977.

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D.C.

0340. USNRC. Washington. D.C. June 1977.

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26. Hamet. C. O.. Seetley J. H., and Quinn. F. M. Mininat:ga-lemons in large scale evacu===. NUS Corporataan. Rockville. MD. la 1982 Hazardnus Manenals Spills Conference (Pine-lings). Apnl 19-27 1982. 3. Landwigson. Ed. Avail: Governmenu etitutes. Inc. 966 Hungerford Drive. Rockville. MD 20850.

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27. Cast, K. S. and Schweitase, M., Prosectsve actens as a factor in power reactor siung. Omk EJge National Lalmsory. Oak Reige. TN. draft October 1982.

28. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, a perspectsve ceau** planning. TR.77. U.S. Fodsul Emergency

.1--4 Agency. Washington, D C. December 1972.

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29. Perry, R. W., LJudse, M. K., and Grasse M. R., E ermanon Mannias in Emergency Manate= car.

D.C. Henkh & Co.. hainston. MA 1981.

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30. Knps G. A.,imhvidual and societal effects of Mme and wartime nuclear Ae. in Proceedmgs relati(*

of a Sypmposium: The Control of Fvpr="4 of the Pubic to lonidng Radmion in the Evem of Accident or Anack. Apnl 1981. National Coimcil on Ita&ar== Proeecten and Measurements. N MD.

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(I) 6. (X)(DRF) where DRF is an appropriate dose rate factor. De state of the art today of environmental dose and pathway models is such that dose rate ractors are tabulated for important radio.

nuclides, body organs and pathways. For atmospheric releases x is derived fmm the relationship:

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or, more easily, from graphical displays.' A consqtent set of units for these parameters must be used, of course. One consistent set would be D in rad /sec. X n cunes/m', Q' in curies /

i sec, and DRF in rad /sec per curie /m'.

In these units, x/Q' is in sec/m'. It is helpful to picture the inverse of x/Q', i.e., Q'/,

X which has units of m'/sec, i.e., a volumetric flow rate. If a pollutant is mixed with a large volume of fresh air (high flow rate, or high m'/sec), then xtQ' is smali, and vice versa.

Rus, x/Q' is simply a measure of dilution. Good mixing of a pollutant with fresh air leads to a low x/Q'. Values of X Q' are in the range 10-* to 10-* sec/m' between I and 10 miles

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Here, total dose, D, is proportional to total Curies released, Q. he values of Q tabulated in Table 2 in the main text were derived by simply equating D to a protective action guide for the pathway of interest, assuming a particularly adverse X Q' (i.e.,10-* sec/m'), and

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selecting a tabulated DRF appropriate for the particular pathway of interest. Q was then calculated using the last equation, above. De DRFs used to derive the Qs in Table 2 are listed in Table 2. Although Other tabulations may provide slightly different values of DFRs than those used herein, the principal insight would not change significantly.

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CONSEQUENCES Possible releases of radioactive materials from light water nuclear power reactors (LW I

range from the routine and benign to the catastrophic an

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process. Since TMI, the potential for the high (off-site) co j

De demarcation is the current explicit consideration of those accidents which include or massive containment failures.

he pmblem, of course, is the enormous amount of volatile rad onctive species prese in the core of an operating LWR and the power in the decay heat (after shutdown) ava to drive this material from the core into the environment. Shutdown decay heat is of the order of 3 to 5% of full power during the first hour after shutdown. For a 3300 megawatt-l driving thermal (MWT) reactor, initial decay heat is an impressive 150 MWT, a substantia e

force if not controlled (vaporization of water at a rate of about 1000 gal / min could remov l il i

this decay heat and protect the core, by the way). De in-core activities of vo at e spec es g

are impressive also. The bi!! ion, or so, curies of these species ('/, hr after shutdown) c be broken down roughly as follows: 300 million (M) Ci of noble gases; 600 M Ci of radioiodines; 130 M Ci of tellurium-132: 30 M Ci of ruthenium-106;20 M Ci of radioces

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and a host of other radioisotopes in substantial abundance Dese are the potential ra l,

It is instructive to compare these inventories to the activity required to be released to sarrce terms.

induce doses ectual to Protective Action Guides. For a X/Q' of 10-* sec/m', the follow

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Organ /pethway PAG (rema) Q (curies) 5 1.500.000 Whole body /cnoud (esterna!) garnas Thyroid /mhalanon by cinid 25 600 (1 131)

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The masses of various materials that could be involved in a core melt accident may be of interest also:

H,0 2 x 10'kg t>O, 10' kg Zr (clad) 2.0 x 10' kg Sa (clad) 300 kg Fe (structure) 2.5 x 10'(in care) 2.5 x 10' kg teore + bonorn structure)

I is kg Cs 255 kg Ba. Sr. Mo 416 kg Zr (fission product) 276 kg Rs.Rh.Pd.Te 318 kg and smaller masses of other radionuclides. (Silver in control rods is receiving increased attention currently because of its low melting point and volatility at high temperatures).

Many chemical forms of these materials would be present in a core melt scenario; gases, vapors, particulates, soluble, and insoluble forms are possible in many combinations. 'Ihe radioiodines and :esiums are of special concem because of volatility and high consequence potential. (Noble gases are relatively innocuous). A noteworthy complicating factor in this regard is the decay chain Te, I, Xe, Cs, Ba,12; a halide (I) decays into a noble gas (Xe),

which decays into an alkali metal (Cs). The mart-r is extremely complicated, but an important current consensus is that in an aqueous environment, even at high wmperatures, I and Cs would exist as I and Cs* ions dissolved in water and in a dry system I, would be the dominant form of iodine. Many interesting reactions involving steel, paint, hydrogen, lu-bricants (oils), steam..and high temperatures which produce organic iodines (e.g. gaseous CH 1) have also been noted. If released to the atmosphere, CH 1 could desm.pe in sunlight 3

3 to form I,, however; the phenomenon has been observed, but little is known about it.

The distribution of particle sizes is also of interest. Very little hard data is available in this regard. What is known can be succinctly stated: insoluble materials rapidly agglomerate to diameters in the range 0.5 to 2.

m, with log-nonnal distributions of geometric standard deviation in the range 1.5 to 1.8. In an aqueous (steam) environment in a contamment these particles act as condensation nuclei for the formation of water droplets, the sizes of which are in the range 10 to 20 pm. Settling of larEer droplets acts to cap the size. This information pertains to intact containments and the atmosphere within a steamy containment. Interest-ingly, fog and a definite violet tinge has been observed at high I, concentrat ons in such an envircament. Very little is known in the reactor community regarding the particle size distributions that would be evident in the atmosphere in failed containment scenarios. Evap-oration of droplets of hot water released (blown out) to the atmosphere would leave residual particles of speculative sire but probably less than several microns. For intact containments, only very small (submicron) sized particles would be released to the atmosphere; most likely, only the noble gases would be released in significant abundance, over a long term, a la the TMI accient.

Before prrreeding to a discussion of major accident sequences and consequences thereof, it is worthwhile, even necessary, to establish a perspective regarding their probability or likelihood. Succinctly, the likelihood is very low for a single reactor and for the industry in any year. 'Ihe calculated probability per reactor year projected over the lifetime of the cur.ent industry is also low, but there is a large uncertainty in the current estimates. The current status is illustrated in Figure 1, in which release fractions of the core inventory for various accidents are plotted against the calculated probability of such releases. The data points displayed are taken from the Reactor Safety Study (WASH-1400) and are illustrative

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fractions more realistically. For scoping purposes,it is merely noted here that certain potential release fractions can hardly increase significantly (from, e.g.,0.8) and that a reduction by a factor of ten to twenty woukt virtually eliminate the chance of early death and injury as consequences of LWR accidents, assuming only a modicum of leisurely protective actions off. site.

Catastrophic decompression of a containment would result in the release of large amounts of water, at least, at sonic velocities (choked flow). Depending on the location of the break and the initial trajectory of the release (up or down), plume rise up to 600 m, or so, is possible, but the range 10 to 200 m is more likely. Release rates as high as 2 x 105 g/sec (H,0) have been estimated, it is not known whether or not the water would flash to vapor in the aur-yha, or agglomerate into drops large enough to settle out. Mass loadings could be as high as 20 g (H O)/m (air) at a mile or so, i.e., at the saturation point at STP. (A 5

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or course. The leading puff release could last from minutes to tens of minuses, depending h of water primarily on the magnitude of the driving pressure and reservoir. The puff t could contain anywhere from very little of the core inventory to major fractions of the core inventory of radionuclides, depending on the accident sequence (loss of water before or after core damage or melt).

Patently, if a containment does not fait catastrophically, longer duration releases (a la TMI) would result. These releases would be gases and vapors, predominantly. However, daughter products of the noble gases and condensible vapors would be attacted to atmos-pheric panicles, most likely in the subnueron range (0.1 pm or less) where the hvailable number density and surface area (for condensation) is highest. These daughter products are relatively short lived (40-min half. life, or less, e.g., Rb-88 and Cs-138). The capture of these paniculate daughter products in air samplers could prove misleading to the unwary.

Many containment failure / core melt scenanos can be postulated, but four sequences en-compass the various possibilities:

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Containment failure by overpressure / core melt 4.

Containment bypass / core melt The first two of these are notonous. The first is the " china syndrome" accident where the core melts through the concrete base and enters the ground. Pressure reliefis via tunneling of water, steam, etc. to the surface, with a ground level release, or only a small plurne rise.

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never in some cases. Failure of containment heat ternoval systems during this sequence rem, rr could (would in small containments) result in containment fracture, or catastrophic failure collecti resulting in a rapid blowdown. A I ft hole, e.g., a 2' x 6' crack, would result in a 2

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and the slower the release. In general, the less watc $.! E f!=shed or otherwise projected excell to the atmosphere, the greater should be the ratio of noble gases to other species, and the wwld less the consequences off-site.

be fie he last two sequences listed above would involve containment failure before core melt.

result Both would involve major losses of low activity coolant to the atmosphere initially, but with large possibly significant differences in off-site consequences due to the different potentials for find,i internal scrubbing via natural processes. he third sequence could result from a failure to G,is scram (trip, shut off) the reactor upon contamment isolation, the dumping of larEe amounts there of power into the containment (more than the containment heat removal sysaems could Cons d

handle), and containment failure due to overpressure. The resulting massive loads could be re

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"I releasing materials at a rate proportional to volatility (i.e., in sequence, noble gases, iodines, Ana 8L and cesiums, etc. with some mixing). It is currently assumed that because of the high heat app these volatiles escape to the atmosphere without significant plateout in the plumbing. There is a possibility being investigated, that the driving forces for these volatiles would not be sufficient to prevent substantial plateout, resulting in a smaller (yet substantial) source term.

Vapors released to the atmosphere would eventually condense on atmospheric particles (and possibly some core matter). This would be a short duration, also spectacular, accident with potentially very high consequences because of the short (no) waming time before release.

n Although the initial blowdown could result in a moderate plume rise of the relatively low activity water, the high activity releases could be near or at ground level. Since the iden-tification of this sequence, quality assurance on the interfacing systems has been intensified a

so reduce its likelihood substantially.

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be held, fines assessed, and reports written in response to such accidents of lesser importance.

Part of the record may be an assessment of doses and contamination levels in the environment, for which meteorological information will be used, at least in part. It must be recognized, however, tht.t for such events the collective (population) dose, i.e., the man-am, or person-rem, may well be the prime issue. Latent cancers and genetic effects are functions of the collective dose, it is important to recognize that such doses occur predominantly where the people are, which is predominantly far from the source cf the release, often between 20 and 100 miles from the source. Thus, regional meterology during the penod of release and subsequent transport, rather than site meteorology, would be the prime meteorological con-ccm. Site meteorology during the penod of release would be used, in part, to assess con-formance with pertinent regulations regarding doses at or near the site hr===tary, i.e.,10 CFR Part 20, Appendix 1 to 10 CFR Part 50,10 CFR Part 100 (NRC Regulations), and 40 CFR Part 190 (EPA Regulation). For such assessments, numerous dosimeters are currently required in the site environs to provide a direct measurement of external (cloud) gamma l

dose (and " shine" dose). Air samplers are also required in the environs, but there is an excellent chance that any release would miss these fixed samplers. Many small accidents would result in puff releases, and would be long gone before portable air samplers could be fielded. Thus, site meteorology would be important to assess inhalation exposures nearby resulting from small releases. Since small accidental releases are virtually certain, whereas large releases are speculative, it may well be the case that the site meteorological data will find its most important use in demonstrating that pertinent regulations are not violated.

l Given an accidental release in-plant or on-site, which results in a release no the atmosphere, l

there may or may not be a measured release or release rate available (i.e., a source term).

Consequences of noncore-melt accidents will be discussed first. Most releases in-plant should be released, if at all, through engineered safety features (e.g., filters) and past or through radiation detectors. Two aids would be available in this case: source terms should be small and dominated by noble gases, and a measured release rate would be available. An exception l

could occur if the source of a release is aged spent fuel in the spent fuel storage pool (SFSP).

in this case weak gamma and beta emitting longer-lived noble gases (Xe-133 and Kr-85,

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Some smaller accidents could result in a release that by-passes monitored release paths.

Most of the potentially more serious noncore-melt accidents would fall in this category. 'Ihe consequences of such accidents are assessed using very conservative assumptions in Safety Analysis Reports (SARs) for all but the very oldest LWRs. A typical table in an SAR could appear as follows:

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Such information could be used to scope the potential consequences, recognizing the extreme conservatisms in the assumptions and calculations performed before the fact. The various assumptions are listed in SARs. One conservatism, the use of the ** semi-infinite" dose factor for extemal (cloud) gamma whole body dose is noteworthy. 'the use of this dose I

model tends to overestimate the whole body dose by a factor of 5 to 20 for the meterological conditions assurned during the release period (e.g., Pasquill Class F stability, I m/sec wind speed). Consequences of accidents of this ilk would involve the inhalation and contamination pathways predominantly. From a meterological standpoint, the trajectory of such releases, ground level puffs for the most part, would be of paramount concern, mosdy for the initial direction of site and off-site radiological survey terms. Diffusion should be of secondary concern initially, since the lack of a source term would prohibit an accurate dose calculation.

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.I, the information displayed in Figure 2 and Table 1. Figure 2 illustrates the calculated con-tribution of various nuclides to whole body dose, by three major pathways at a range of i:1

'/, mile, for one postulated core melt scenario (the BWR-1 release from the Reactor Safety

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per reactor year probabilities). 'Ihe results are summarued in the three figsacs in Figure 6.

In these figures, the magnitudes of the c@A'ad consequences are displayed as a function l

of the probability of a consequence of certain magnitude. The calculations were performed for two sites: the heavily populated Indian Point site about 35 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River, and the Diablo Canyon site near Santa Barbara, California, for which Accidents in which the w,adspeed is greener than 10 nyh as the start of release.

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/M Zone (2.5 radius area surrounding the site) should have been completed based on in-plant g77 observations, as was set forth in the emergency plans, and as emphasized in current NRC gg emergency planning guidance. His is especially noteworthy because the current NRC pro-p tective action guidance is based on two imminently reasonable guidelines: do not plan to send people outside if heavily laden plumes are in the area, and do not plan to await an actual major release to the atmosphere before recommending protective actions to people, nese two fundamentals underlie the Emergency Action Level and predetermmed protective action concepts developed before and since the TMI accident. From a dose projection /

meterological standpoint, this means that the plans are laid with the explicit understanding, 4

that projected doses would most likely not be known or very low wherepresective action',

O weld be recommended. His fundamental perspective limits both dose projection and rr.et-crological needs for short-term, short-rante protective action decisions. Dese needs would hav: to be satisfied for longer term, longer range projections, however. During TMl, the eva:uation recommendation which did~ occur was made predom'mantly on the basis of in-plant uncertainties and public concem as compared to dose projections (and meterology).

De assessment of projected health effects, calculated the first day and reponed days and we:ks later, did utilize site and regional meterological data to buttress the off-site dosirnetry data. His sequence is virtually planned for the future, albeit with (hopefully) better coor-diration and more timely actions and results, if needed REFERENCES Reactor Safety Snady WASH-1400 (NUREG-754)l4) USNRC, October 1975 (n b. Appendia VI. Calculation of reactor acculent consequences).

WaE, I. B., et al., Overview of the Reactor Safe'y Sandy r%== Model. NUREG4340. USNRC, June 1977.

Tedmcal basis for estimaung fission product behavior channs t.WR acculents. NUREG4772, USNRC. June 1981.

Adrich D. C., et al., Sandia Nauonal Laborasones. Examination of offsite radaological emergency protective measures for nuclear reactor accidents involving core melt. NUREGCR.Il31 USNRC, June 1978.

Ahlrich. D. C., Impact of dispersion parameters ce calculased reactor accident consequences. SAND 79-2081, Sandia Nanonal Laboratones. Albuquerque. N.M., November 1979.

Martis, J. A., Jr., Perspectives on the roie of tw6 gent monitanns in an emergency, Trans. Am. Nasel. Soc.,

e n cat for iting seria ve nent UEGCR.2239. USNRC, in peparanos. January 1982, (estimased avasiainlity date May 1982).

Illuierd R. K. and Celesman, L. F., Nanaral trarupost effects on fission product behavior is the containment syuems esperiment. BNWl-1457. Banelle Memonal lasutute Pacific Northwest taboratones Rachland. WA.,

i December 1970.

l Huclear acronols in reactor safety. Nuclear Emergy Agencyorgaruzation for Economac Co Operanon and Devel-upment. 2. rue Andrd-Pascal. 75775 Pans Cedes 16. France. (in english) June 1979.

Pr-alamps of the CSNI Specialists Meetang on Nuclear Aciosols in Reactor Safety NUREGCR.1724. USNRC, Washington D C. (in english), October 1980.

Deemis, R., Ed., HaMbook on Aerosols. TID-26608. NT15. U.S. Dept. Commerce, Spnngfield. V.A. 1976.

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should a major puff release occur while they are in transit. This Appendix will provide some I

insight on the relative worth of traveling while caught in a puff, as compared to the case where a person remains stationary and is exposed to the full puff.

he analysis will emphasize the worst case of actually being caught in a plume. Rus, it is prBumed that the planned emergency response scenario does not work for some reason

• As a point of reference, only 6 min is required to travel 3 miles at a nominal country speed _

of 30 mph. De implicauons of this statement are obvious. In this light, the following might be W. bed as an elegant analysis of trivia, but some interesting insights are obtainedm Two

~ cases are considered: traveling downwind with a puff and traveling upwind ib.gh a puff.

TRAVELING DOWNWIND WITH A PUFF l-From the equations in Reference 20 of the main text the following equation can be developed for the case of a person traveling downwind with a puff when the dose rate is proportional to inverse distance squared (reahstic, conservative case):

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dose Note that the traveler's speed is equal to the wind speed. If the wind speed is less than w a person can outrun a puff and the equauon does not hold. If one starts earlier than tir:

areas f,arthi release or at the instant of release, and travels faster than the wind speed (noannal 5 to 10 mph) the dose can be avoided altogether, if the puff does not follow the road, doses would be lower than that indicated by the equauon. If one is overtaken by the puff, which passes over the traveler, the traveler would be exposed to a lower dose than the sf ahnnary person at the closer distance, and to a lower dose than calculated here. If the release is of long A?

duration, the person traveling would be exposed to only a fraction of the release as compared soun to the stahonary person. In the nNed reference it is shown that doses while traveling at a give.

moderate speed across a puff would be less than if tne were to travel downwind with a puff. Rus, this analysis is on the worst case side and pertains generally to a very unlikely evacuauon scenario. It could pertam to a valley. situation with an unfortunate delay in warning and time, however, Now, the stationary person at to would be exposed to a dose D, given by:

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puff estimated in the Reactor Safety Study for a core melt accident.1his will tend to conservatively maximize the ratio.

l The results using these assumptions are shovm in Table 1. The dose ratios are generally much less than one for persons starting at close range (r less than 3 miles) and traveling o

at moderate speed. The trends in the data comport with intuition: traveling faster lowers the dose to the traveler and leaving nearby areas provides relatively greater benefit than leaving areas further away. Interestingly, traveling at slow speeds with the puff, from distances further away, could conceivably be worse than staying in place.

TRAVELING UPWIND IbTO A PUFF Assuming that dose rate increases with inverse distance squared as one approaches the source, it can be shown that the dose accumubed while traveling upwind into a puff is given by:

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Where r, is the closest distance of approach to the source let T = 0.5 hr, as before, and r, = 0.5 mile, which is a nominal LWR site boundary distance. Then the calculated ratio D,JD, is given in Table 2 for some example conditions.

As shown in Table 2, traveling from long distances toward the source would be far from beneficial under the assumed conditions. (But recall, the time required to travel 5 miles at 20 mDh is only 10 min. This re-emphasizes the extremely pessimistic =<sumrmians used to derive the ratios in Table 2. This also maha<i= the potential value of anfearly)waming).

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ACTION LEVELS You're going to be talking about action levels, so I though you should see some that have been accepted. These are attached. Note the following:

1.

Action levels are observables. Protective Action Guides (PAGs) are not observables.

(PAGs are projected doses - but we have no anticipitory dosimeters.)

2.

Action levels are predetermined conditions for which sps:ific notifications and actions should be initiated.

3.

Ad hoc actions can always be taken by those at the scene. The action levels are essentially " stops", i.e. if you ever see these, quit arguing and start doing specific things.

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Since action levels are predetermined stops on navel pondering, they are usually set rather high for the action contemplated, i.e.

we're willing to allow trained people to do their thing - up to a point.

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To avoid overreacting to fast transients, a persistence (e.g. five minutes) should be assigned to the action levels, especially where very disruptive actions are contemplated.

I have also attached a sample Emergency Classification / Notification /

Predetermined Action scheme from the Zimmer docket.

It's a good illustration of a succinct summary of such a scheme that should be acceptable.

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As predetermined, this hypothetical case would' correspond to a State Condition Code 4 emergency.

Indication of the following conditions, sustained for a 5 minute period, in the Control Room, would result in declaration of a Condition Code 4 emergency:

Containment dose rate of 750 R/hr or greater and any two of the following conditions: 1) Containment pressure equal to or greater than 25 psig, 2)

Containment temperature equal to or greater than 200oF, and 3) ECCS injection signal.

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the core to the point where there is damage to the fuel rods.

For this case,, it is assumed that all the gap activity (the gaseous contained between the fuel and fuel rod) is released to the containment.

The containment is assumed to initially leak at the maximum design leak rate.

In this accident, it is up to the Senior shif t Supervisor or Emergency Duty Of ficer to assure that there has been no fuel molting.

If there is any qucntion, a Case I LOCA should be assumed.

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The containment is assumed to initially leak at the maximum design leak rate.

In this cccident, it is up to the Senior shift Supervisor or Emergency Duty Officer to assure that there has been no fuel molting.

If there is any question, a Case I LOCA should be assumed.

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The response levels equivalent to th6 EMERG WCY PAG cro presented for both inf ants arid adults, in order to permit use of either level and thus, l'nsure a ficxible approach to taking action in cases where exposure of the most sensitive portion of the population (infants and pregnant women) can be prevented.

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12.9-10 corpts from these plans are included as Figures 12.9-3, and 12.9-12.

In order to keep this discussion in proper perspective, the levels of radiciodine concentrations in milk requiring notification of the l

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sampling frequency required by these technical specifications is one or two weeks based on last analysis.

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SEI4 Basis Concentration I 10-day consumption 3 x 10-3 Ci/ml (See GSEP Table 4.2-1) 30-day consumption 1 x 10-3 pCi/ml 60 Mg For Iodine-131 in milk, the Illinois suggested safe levels g are as follows: ME -4 gi 10-day consumption 1 x 10 pCi/ml -5 30-day consumption 3 x 10 pCi/ml c.; et These yield an integrated thyroid dose to a newborn child M of 5 rem'and 6.3 ram, respectively. These integrated valves g are also used in assessing other pathways. W At present, EPIP's addressing surface contamination provido hN guidance for making radiation measurementg),(mR/hr), converting M these data to contamination levels (pci/m and calculating 'g the projected dose (mR) to persons in the contaminated area a should no protective action be taken. These radiation measure- {g ment data may then be used by responsible governmental agencies to formulate decisions as they deem necessary to protect the h: health and safety of the public. s .w. l99 ,The Guide" refers to Regulatory Guide 1.101, Annex A (March 1977). .c ..3 r= r.*

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At present, Commonwealth Edison recommends removal of dairy N animals from pasture based on measurements of the I-131 content i of pasture grass, assuming that all of the radiation counts in the I-131 gamma ray energy " window" are from I-131. The conversion factor used for this purpose is 0.15 pCi/l per pCi/kg of grass (wet weight) where 0.15 pCi/l is the maximum concentration in milk for an acute release. If this concen-M tration were reached the integral dose would be 0.01 mrem. Thus for.a small child to receive 5000 mrem, the child would have to drink contaminated milk containing 0.08 pCi/1 at maximum for the duration of the contamination period. To reach this a milk concentration and ysing the suggested convergion factor uj of 0.09 pCi/l per pCi/m would require 0.83 pC1/m of 3-131 q$ct to be present on the grass, or approximately 2.1 Ci/m of M I-131 total on the ground, including grass. Since I-131 com-M prises approximately 10% of the total activity on the ground ~S at 1 hour after a release of mixed fission producgs from the D the total ground activity would be 21 UCi/m. This

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a. Produces or threatens to produce airborne nEin Release which exceeds A (or is not monitored),

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a. Site boundary y dose rate 120 mR/hr j

l. Identification

a. Retcase Rate

. Site boundary 1-131 conG 110-7 pCi/cc j NOTE: The values given in a. and b. above can persist l ' Exceeds the instantaneous release rate limits for ' for 24 hours before the dose criteria arc exceeded. 1 noble gas and 1-131 contained in Section 2.4 of If the duration of these values is shorter than j the Environmental Tech. Specs. 24 hours, proportionately higher values can be used. ;

b. Local Airborne Sample

c. Total Release (Q, curies)

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-y ParticulateWithTg < 2 hrs (Unidentified) X (pCi/cc) 210-6 x (PF ) Q S(11.8) (X/ 1800 p ~ (PF)p = protection factor for particulates g g , gg egg applicable to types of respirators dilution factor for being worn by persons in the area 800 m - ~ (from RCS No. 2, Tabic 2). If the meteorological computer is inoperabic,

2) p-y ParticulateWithTg > 2 hrs (Unidentified) use (X/ 1800 = 5.3 x 10-4 sec/m3 e-(desi n basis case), which gives: O S 22000 Ci X(pCi/cc) 210-9 x (PF )

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3) CharcoalSampleWithT3 > 2 hrs (Unidentified)

X(pCi/cc) 2 (4x10-9)(PF ) Q 1(5.8 x 10-3)[(X/ 1 ' WN' ' 80 y (PF)y = protection factor for vapors and gases If the meteorological computer is inoperable, applicable to types of respirators use (X/ 1800 = 5.3 x 10-4 sec/m3 VD, being worn by persons in the area which gives: O & 11 Ci.@ NOTE: If release rate is known from plant vent (from RCS No. 2, Table 2). monitors, multiply the release rate by t,he ~, duration of the release (be sure the units are.%. Action '7 J.;. c nsistent) to obtain the total curie release. j/ l

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1. Definition leicase which exceeds A (or is not monitored),

Release which exceeds B, but 10,000 meter (outer >ut site boundary whole body dose is i 500 mrem edge of LPZ) whole body dose is 1500 mrem and and thyroid dose is 15 rem during first 24 hours. thyroid dose is 15 rem during first 24 hours. l significance

2. Significance 9tay require on-site protective measures but should Will require on-site protective measures and

= tot require off site protective measures. require off-site- ' dentification

3. Identification Tccident is Class B if it is not monitored or exceeds -

Accident is Class C if it exceeds blass B, but most clease values for Class A, but most reliable available reliable available measurements or estimates meet neasurements or estimates meet the following criteria: the following criteria:

. Site boundary 7 dose rate 120 mR/hr

a. 7 Dose Rate Measurements

). Site boundary 1-131 cone 110-7 pCi/cc

1) 10,000 meter i 20 mR/hr VOTE: The values given in a. and b. above can persist

2) Site boundary i 600 mR/hr for 24 hours before the dose criteria are exceeded.

b.1-131 Concentration if the duration of these values is shorter than

1) 10,000 meter i 10-7 pCi/cc 24 hours, proportionately higher values can be used.

2) Site boundary S.3 x 10-6 pCi/cc

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NOTE: The values g.iven in a. and b. above can pers. t is

1) Noble Gas for 24 hours before the dose criteria are exceeded.'

O 1(11.8) + (X/Q)gon if the duration of these values is shorter than where: (X/ 1800 = downwind centerline 24 hours, proportionately higher values can be used. dilution factor for ~

c. Total Reichse (0, curies) 800 m.

1) Noble Gas if the meteorological computer is inoperable, Q & (11.8) 4-(X/dl ofoo i

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?~ 10000 m g O i(5.8 x 10-3) + (X/ 1 if the meteorological computer is inoperable, 800 .. If the meteorological computer is inoperable, e use (X/0) 0000 = 2.2 x 10-5 sec/m3 e~use (X/ Is = 5.3 x 10-4 sec/m, (design basis case),which gives: O 5 500,000 Ci. 3 which gi s: O 11 Ca.

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1) Containment pressure greater than limit line from Figure 1 of Attachment 2.

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u [ G _ :b DIABL'O CAllY0ft POWER PLAtlT UNIT l'0S.1 & 2 .EMERGEtiCY PROCEDURE R-2 . TITLE: RELEASE OF AIRBORilE RADI0 ACTIVE MATERIALS PART 3D _F0LLOWUP ACTI0 tis FOR CLASS D RELEASE 1 1. Evacuate Site Personnel a. As soon as' the accident has been classified as D by any of the means given in Part 2, evacuate all nonessential site personnel in accordance with instructions given in General Appendix 5. b. Evacuate site personnel engaged in recovery actions'if it appears that they will exceed the dose criteria given in 6 below. 2. Evacuate Members of the Public From the Downwind LPZ ~ As soon as the accident has been classified as D by any of the means given in Part 2, notify the Sheriff and recomuend immediate evacuation of the LPZ in tae downwind direction. In the case of a potential Clas_s_D release. it is not necessary to delay evacuation of the LPZ until the confirming off-site monitoring results are obtained. If evacuation is required, the'following rule of thumb can be applied to determine the area which should be evacuated first. On a map, draw an arrow pointing in the downwind direction. Evacuate the 22.5* sector through which this arrow passes and 22.5* sector on either side of the downwind sector (a total of 67.5*) to the outer boundary of the LPZ. 3. _ Perform Off-Site Monito' ring a.* General A Class D release is of sufficient magnitude that some off-site protective measures beyond the LPZ, such as evacuation or long term impoundment of foodstuffs, may be required. Therefore, an off-site mon'itoring program should be established for the following purposes: 1) areas (if any) program should be directed toward identifying those Initially the located beyond the LPZ where personnel evacuation may be necessary to prevent persons from exceeding the recominended evacu-ation criteria doses of 500 mrem whole body and/or 5 rem thyroid. .a.

2) Once any immediate evacualifon is accomplished, the' program should be set up to determine the need (if any) for long term decontamination or impoundment of foodstuffs, which might be desirable even.in areas where prompt personnel evacuation was not required. :Jyf.jdg*-og

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'( g' y # .}] ' ' HQ: ; yp W 7 G '4) ',The program should provide the'dat 'to.~ answer questions to alla 'ublic concerns.' i ..,. ~ m J L

v i s. y m:. - n.:: :~.-; emm W .~ t? q.- - ~ .~ q 3,.g. (.,,. " ~ uitd5t.U"QuiiiniVuivin~ri.idi ^uM l rivh. T 2 ~~ '- '~ ~ ~ EMERGENCY PROCEDURE R-2 TITI.E: RELEASE OF AIRBORNE RADI0 ACTIVE fMTERIALS PART 3D (Cont.) b. Methods and. Procedures Monitoring techniques and procedures are conta[ned in Attachment 7 to this procedure. ~ c. Exposure Guidelines As a minimum, the off-site monitoring program should identify (including verification of predictions based upon curie release calculations) the following:

1) The extent of the areas where the direct inhalation thyroid dose, or the thyroid dose which could be received by consumntion of con-taminated foodstuffs, might exceed the recommended general public evacuation criterion of 5 rem. As discussed above, tie first l

emphasis should be on determining the region where evacuation may be necessary due to inhalation dose. The area where foodstuff contamination may be a problem will exceed in size the area of inhalation concern, and can be determined as a followup measure after any required evacuation is accomplished. A thyroid dose of 5 rem could result from any of the following exposures to I-131 (note that if I-131 dose only represents a fraction of the total iodine dose, the following values will have to be reduced accordingly as discussed in Attachment 5): a) Integrated exposure of a dairy pasture to 1.8x10-8 pCi-hr/cm3 will produce an initial ground deposition of 0.32 pCi/m2, which in turn will produce peak milk levels of =0.04 pCi/ liter approx-imately 2 days later, decreasing to zero over the next 3 weeks. .This exposure will produce the 5 rem dose (based upon a 6 month old child) via the grass-cow-milk-thyroid chain if milk from this source is consumed. x x;- .i. l x. b) Integratedexposureofrangelanhuponwhichfeedfreerangehens to a cloud of 2.2x10-7 3 pCi-hr/cm, corresponding to an initial deposition of 4 pCi/m. This could produce 5 rem over the next 2 + yp m&, $. %p.,,,, .. 3 weeks due to the consumption of eggs. ,. 4p.dn ' m m g9.?:;.y. n q ? j c) Integrated exposure of. farmland to a cloud of 6x10-7 pCi-hr/cm3, N "V corresponding to an initial deposition of 10 pCi/m, would produce,j 2 the dose over the next three weeks if vegetables from this farm- .<M

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DIABLO CANYOH POWER PLANT UNIT NOS.1 & 2 EMERGENCY PROCEDURE R-2 . TITLE: RELEASE OF AIRBORNE RADI0 ACTIVE MATERIALS ~ PART 3D (Cont.) ~ determination is the responsibility of State officials.

However, quantifying affected areas such as this will assist State officials in making such determinations by helping to scope the. magnitude of I

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2) Since there is considerable cattle grazing in the vicinity of Diablo Canyon, it may be desirable to move some animals out of the affected areas for their own protection. A recommended action level for this is when the ground deposition of I-131 is such that the thyroid dose due to grazing may exceed 25 rem.

1 This dose will be received if the grazing land has been exposed to a cloud of 4.5x10-6 3 pCi-hr/cm, corresponding to an initial ground de-2 position of 80 pC1/m, ') dose) may.be of interest, it should never be limitin(such as Sr bone Although exposure other than whole body or thyroid 3 g. That is, while .it is desirable to collect and count particulate samples during the course of off-site monitoring operations, it should never be necessary to range farther afield than dictated by the limits of the affected area from the standpoint of milk exposure in order to encompass the areas where these other types of exposure could be a problem. In other nords, it should never be necessary to range farther afield lookirs for Sr than one would range while looking for I-131 contami-nation. 4. Evacuation offebers of the Public Located Beyond t'he LPZ ~ a. Dose Cri M ria ~ The responsibility for ordering and carrying out evacuat, ion beyond the LPZ rests with the State and local government agencies. When evacuation is being considered beyond the LPZ, the number of people involved increases substantially over an evacuation limited to the LPZ, and authorities may choose to alter the criteria which are applicable to the LPZ rather than move thou' sands of people. 3.w In any case, however, the present criteria for public evacuation are that persons should be moved as necessary to prevent: [g. Ow. ;v..-(fy';]llfg....}

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cm-. -m(. ./.' f - - gj . g" DIABLO CAfiY0ff POWER PLAfiT U!iIT fiOS.1 & 2 EMERGEf1CY PROCEDURE R-2 . TITLE: RELEASE OF AIRBORilE RADI0 ACTIVE MATERIALS PART 3D (Cont.) l l

1) If the dose rate reaches 250 mr/hr or the I-131 concentration reaches 6x10-7 pCi/cc, evacuate immediately.

2) If the dose rate reaches 125 mr/hr or the I-131 concentration reaches 3x10-7 pCi/cc, evacuate within 2 hours.,

3) If the dose rate reaches 70 mr/hr or the I-131 concentration reaches 2x10.- 7 pCi/cc, evacuate within 5 hours.

4) If the dose rate reaches 20 mr/hr or the I-131 concentration reaches 8x10-8 pCi/cc, evacuate within 24 hours.

5) If the dose rate reaches 10 mr/hr or the I-131 concentration reaches 4x10-8 ucure, emuoa within 48 hours. s Although governmental agencies are free to do as they please, it is recommended that the decision to evacuate persons beyond the LPZ be made on the basis of monitoring results, and only on the basis of pre-dictive calculations (curie release and meteorological data) if it appears' that monitoring results are not likely to be forthcoming in time to'be meaningful. b. Detailed Procedures The evacuation will be carried out by local law enforcement agencies using procedures contained in the " SLO County Emergency Plan." c.. Extent of Evacuation The area which is evacuated must, of course, include the entire area in which that dose criteria are exceeded. However, for conservatism, a l somewhat larger area than this should be evacuated. If the evacuation is required and the opinion of the Emergency Coordinator ~. is sought, the following rule of thumb can be applied, and should be con-servative On a map, draw an arrow pointing in the downwind direction. Evacuate the 22.5* sector through which this arrow passes and a 22.5* sector on either side of the downwind sector to a distance such that the direct downwind dose is less than the criteria. That i.s. evacuate an 67.5 sector out to the appropr,iate downwind distance. D

5. ' Post-Accident Cleanup and Reentry

,.g d ; & T.%) M / ", ( ......a ,g,m-c ,In conducting post-accident cleanup and reentry operations, the following ' ' (/ ,. basic guidelines should be followed: - gg.by?,jsf 3: ea.- Reasonabic efforts consistent with the urgency of the situa ~ 7, .x. 4h $ $:,.y;[i. 8_, $pwa+ & % fkTif $$v ' a fQy a

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hm Qtaken to minimize personnel radiation exposur,e. The %l6&*iifiGE&'dM??NBd#A51GNMWst; NiqEmergenc Coordinator will. approve all reentries nto evacuat areas J

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I CLASSIFICATION OF EMERCENCY CONDITIONS h

l'. ABNORMAL PROBABLE 1 EMERCENCY l [ CONDITION DETECTED DETECTION MEANS CLASSIFICATION SPECIFIC ACTION REQUIRED [ I. POTENTIAL EMERCENCY CONDITIONS N:nrediological industrial Visual Personnel Take actions to prevent radiological cccid:nts involvement. Ingsstion or inhalation of Portal monitors, friskers, Personnel Conduct affected personnel t'o decon-rediosctivity, dosimetars q taminatio: area, collect appropriate body contamination, over-O, samples, possibly transfer to Cin-expszure, or other person-n21 injuries involving cinnati Ceneral Hospital. E radiction. I~, l i. II. ZPS-1 STATION EMERCENCY CONDITIONS 11 e l'. Szcurity threat Security system ~; Station See Security Plan. ["1 N l 6' 1 Entthquake Motion of surroundings t' Station Initiate safe shutdown procedures. [s '. Flood 4 External notice and/or Station Initiate applicable procedure if water visual will rise above specified level. Tcrn:do and other high External notice or lo-Station Initiate applicable procedure. winds cal weather instruments N r t Emergtncy situations at Visual, notification Station2 t-cdjecsnt facilities Initiate applicable procedure. en :o i: < i Fires or explosions Thermal detectors or vis-Station2 E I 'l ual in affected area (s) Contact Moscow Fire Dept., initiate HG [3; fire-fighting procedure for affected h 8-rarea(s). Take actions to prevent Q* I(i radiological involvement. O p. Vahicle accidents: U l: n i n. Cstlisions involving Visual Station 2 Ensure continued operation of a. f ,L. I 3 f

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cpent fuel elements cr radioactive baste ~ heat removal system, conduct, radio-

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'necessary. fi a.S b. Collisions involving Visual Station b. Consult fuel vendor before starting f[': 7,4 new fuel elements

recovery, 4

c. Aircraft or other air-Visual Station c. Secure plant, rescue personnel berne object impact 1 affected.

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~: [? N Fual-hrndling abnormalities: i n,. f(, c. Decpped elements Visual Station Consultation with fuel vendor before. i recove.y or repair actions initiated. b. Dreaged elements QA procedures 5 ' I c. Lecking spent elements High pool water y X in fuel pool activity Y

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.,s ~ d. Irproper placement in QA procedures "U + reactor vessel a ,/ M -S -} ! i p, III. ZPS-1 CENERAL EMERCENCY CONDITIONS 1 / .\\ ' f 3. ') 3 .i Ralessa of airborne or Vent radiation moni-General Take action as required to reduce.re t liquid re.'.osceivity to tor alarm (s) or (Notification) leases to values within technical unrestricted area that Effluent discharge specifications,. environmental moni-- exceeds technical specifi-radiation monitor (s) _toring. Nk. cations. ~ m vi 4 xs Short term airborne release Vent system radiation General Take action as outli~ned in Emergency _E@ or direct radiation at site monitor alarm (s) .. (Mobilization Plan Implementing Procedure. Conduct "u. boundary >50 aren but < 1 rem alert) environmental ac,nitoring. . ~ " whole body and/or > 300 mrem but <5 rem thyroid for plume ~ u exp2aures, or projected off-site centamination above,FRC pretsetive action guide,(30) rcd thyroid) for agricultural products. A> _. _. _ _ _. _ _ _. _. _ _ _ _ _ - - =-

j TABLE F-3 RECOMMENDED PROTECTIVE ACTIONS TO AVOID Wi! OLE-BODY AND TilYROID DOSE FROM EXPOSURE TO A CASEOUS PLUME M }j! t. PROJECTED DOSE-ZPS-1 CENERAL TO POPULATION Ri EMERCENCY CONDITION (rem) RECOMMENDED ACTIONS

• COMMENTS

'/ tIl NOTIFICATION Who!e-body > TS to <0.05 No protective action required. Required notifications. i Thyroid > TS to < 0.30 Increased environmental surveillance. Mandatory reduction of gaseous emissions. s I,- l MOBILIZATION ALERT: Whole-body 0.05 to < 1 Moscow School - if affected. Previously recomended ~ Short-term release - shelter. protective actions may LEVEL WHITE Thyroid 0.30 to < 5 long-term release - evacuate. be reconsidered or 1 . States provide protective terminated. I ~ action advisories. Monitor environmental radiation levels, a g + 7 g E! 0FFSITE CENERAL: Whole-body I to < 5 Seek shelter and await further 1 instructions. h LEVEL YELLOW Thyroid 5 to < 25 Consider evacuation, particularly for children and pregnant women. p Monitor environmental radiation levels. d J; Control access. N OFFSITE CENERAL: Whole-body 5 and above Evacuate persons in af fected area. Seeking shelter would [q Monitor environmental radiation be an al'ternative if LEVEL RED Thyroid 25 and above levels. evacuation were not. en so p . 7,, Control access. immediately possible @@ or prudent. NU j.. @8 O Si

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incident must take into consideration the impact of existing constraints. ' i) m Z 0: t, y w_--.

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CLASSIFICATION SPECIFIC ACTI5N REQUIRED 5 ~I Shsrt-term liquid release to ' Liquid discharge General Take action as outlined in Emergency 4 Ohio River 1 mpe after di-monitor alarm (s) (Mobilization Plan Implementing Procedure, conduct lution in the river. alert) environmental monitoring. Actual or clear potential Radiation monitors, General Notify agencies involved (Figure F-1) to exceed plume PAG at pressure, level. (Offsite Cen-and take action as outlined in Emer-or beyond site boundary, temperature and flow

eral Emergency) gency Plan Implementing Procedures.

sensors, and automatic .Y

• Conduct environmental monitoring.

operation of ECCS g-i l equipment. 'd-i I Postaccident -l radiation monitors. 'Ci Other system parameters (pressure, level, etc.) ,l N 4, NOTES p. I => O 1. Notify Ohio DSA and Kentucky DES concerni., personnel emergencies that require offsite assistance. 2. Notify Ohio DSA and Kentucky DES concerning any station emergency of public Interest. ~ z. 3. Notify Ohio DSA and Kentucky DES. Notify three downstream waterworks if liquid. 4. Notify Ohio DSA and Kentucky DES. Notify Hoscow school if building is within 67.5* plume sector. Reconunend e' evacuation route. 5. Notify Ohio DSA and Kentucky DES. Notify Orsanco and three downstream water works. Recommend closing intakes during-slug passage. $5 m <= 6. Notify Clermont County Sheriff and/or appropriate Campbell /Pendleton County'egency. Reconunend protective action HG in accordance with Table F-3. ho N*0 2 ~

S e'se' NL v TABLE F-4 + STATION STAFF ASSIGNMENTS DURING EMERGENCIES TITLE LOCATION FUNCTION l Station Superintendent Control room

• Overall direction Assistant Superintendent Control room
• Direction of security and access control or Felicity Armory **

Coordination of station activities with offsite agencies Technical Engineer Control room

• As directed by the Superintendent (assumes Assistant Superintendent ba l'

duties in his absence) 3' u ha Emergency Duty Supervisor Control room 1. Overall direction until relieved by the Station Superintendent. 2. Performance of all functions coor-dinated from the Control Room until relieved by the designated supervisor. 3. Responsibility for offsit'e commun-ication, personnel account-un ps ability and record keeping. QQ Hs Operations Supervisor Control room * .,. Coordination of station operation E "E as " with the duty shift supervisor. s-U Proceed to primary alternate ECC if the control room is not accessible or habitable; proceed to secondary alternate ECC if the control room and primary alternate ECC are not accessible or habitable. The Assistant Superintendent will proceed to the Felicity Armory during a General Emecgency.

V Mb m s. .I 1 2 i i TABLE F-4 (Cont'd) TITLE LOCATION FUNCTION l Rad / Chem Supervisor ** Control room

• Coordination of emergency team (s) performing radiation surveys, mo-nitoring and/or decontamination.

d Maintenance Supervisor ** Emergency team On the scene coordination of staging area Emergency Team (s) performing fire fighting, first aid, rescue and/or basic damage control. Instrument and Control Supervisor Emergency team On the scene coordination of staging area Emergency Team (s) performing fire (j l' fighting, first aid, rescue and/or y basic damage control. u i d EIE! Proceed to primary alternate ECC if the control room is not accessible or habitable; proceed to secondary y$ alternate ECC if the control room and primary alternate ECC are not accessible or habitable. y$ to O mz F8 In the absence of the group supervisor, the group foreman will perform the designated functions. i w 5" O c A k ( >} i ~ i*

r cd W UNITED STATES yo t NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMisslON j WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 4 'o [ APR 13 1983 MEMORANDUM FOR: Distribution FROM: Jim Martin Reactor Risk Branch Division of Risk Analysis, RES

SUBJECT:

A PERSPECTIVE ON EMERGENCY PLANNING, RISK AND THE SOURCE TERM ISSUE Attached for your infonnation is a set of CCDFs which show the potential benefits of following the emergency response guidance in NUREG-0654/ FEMA-REP-1, Rev. 1. Succinctly, this guidance says that for a core melt accident evacuate early, within about two miles, preferably before a major release; everybody else take shelter; send monitoring teams out to find hot ' spots (e.g. >g/hr); and evacuate the hot spots expeditiously if an actual release occurs. To illustrate the potential benefits of this action plan a set of CRAC2 runs was made for the Shoreham site. Comparisons to the summary evacuation CCDFs in the SNL siting study were made for the SSTI release scenario. Early evacuation areas within 1,2,3 and 5 miles of the site were assumed-everybody else was exposed to the 2 hr. puff release plus four (vs 24) hours of ground contamination before leaving. Cases with rain and no rain were invesitgated. People in the early evacuation zones were presumed to start to leave at the beginning of the release and traveled at 10 mph. If they were to leave earlier an incremental additional benefit would accrue. The results are displayed in the attached CCDFs, which are self explanatory for the most part. In essence, ZERO early fatalities were calculated for the three mile early evacuation cases and only two weather sequences contributed to early fatalities for the two mile early evacuation assumption. Little or no differences are observed when the rain cases are switched off (washout coefficient set equal to zero). I The last set of CCDFs were generated with the release fractions for SSTl cut in half, except 100 percent of the noble gases was released. Here, no fatalities were calculated for any weather sequences when an early evacuation of the two mile area was assumed. E7drh f/)

APR i 3 1933 Early injury CCDFs are also attached. Here, the three mile early evacuations had a pronounced benefit and for the five mile early evacuation scenario no early injuries were calculated for the SSTl/2 cases. The final graph shows the width of plumes jgt " downwind" distance. This shows that people normally would have to travel only short distances to get away from hot spots. I'm writing a NUREG which will discuss these perspectives in more detail, but I believe the results are important enough to present the gist of them now. I should have a draft in a month. Thanks to Dan Alpert and Jay Johnson of SNL for doing the runs for me. fl _ / Martin Reactor Risk Branch Division of Risk Analysis, RES

Enclosure:

As stated l l l

Distribution: R. Blond, RES P. Baranowsky, RES G. Burdick, RES J. Murphy, RES M. Ernst, RES R. Bernero, ASTP0 N. Silberberg, ASTP0 R. Matthews, ASTP0 S. Yaniv, RES S. Acharya, NRR J. Mitchell, NRR L.G. Hulman, NRR R. Houston, NRR B. Grimes, I&E 'J. ' Sears, I& E M. Solberg, I&E 'T. McKenna, I&E 4. Jordan

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