Re: nuclear plants crash - Rio de Janeiro requesting

[BFLOOD@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Flood)]

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>>We are from the Rio de Janeiro Fire Department Academy and we need
>>information (With most details as possible) about acidents in nuclear
>>plants. We want to know about equipaments that can be used by Fire
>>Department and Paramedics, tatics and everything we can use in the crash
>>and civil defense (emergency management).
>>
>>We will use this information in the academy to teach the cadets how
>>to work in this kind of crash, because we have in our state two
>>nuclear plants (PWR kind).
>>
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>>Corpo de Bombeiros Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
>>Escola de Forma=E7=E3o e Aperfei=E7oamento de Oficiais
>>A/C: Roberto Robadey Costa J=FAnior - CAP BM
>>Tel.: (021)714.9102, 714.8754, 711.0193. Fax.: 711.9440

US nuclear power reactors are governed by a regulation called 10CFR50 (Title
10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50). Appendix R of this regulation
deals with fire protection requirements and may (I'm not sure) contain
useful information about firefighting preparations. Also, the American
Nuclear Society (ANS) has developed many consensus standards on subjects
related to nuclear plant design and operation, and I believe they will have
some that apply to your questions. Also, they may have training materials or
know of good sources of training materials, as well.

Now I have to apologize. I cannot location a mailing address or an Internet
page address for the ANS. I know that they have a page on the Internet, and
that's probably going to be the easiest way to explore what they have to
offer. Perhaps other Radsafers can chime in with an http://-type address.
Bob Flood
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