Fire at Nuclear Plants-Rio de Janeiro

[John C White <ohjcw@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu>]

 The United States' National Fire Protection Association publishes
standards which may help.  NFPA 803 gives standards for construction, but
also discusses equipment, detectors, and gives an analysis of hazard areas
with types of expected fires and radiation hazards.  NFPA 801 gives similar
information for facilities which handle Radioactive Materials, and NFPA 802
gives standards for Nuclear Research and Production Reactors.  In each of
these NFPA standards, there is a list of references and some bibliography,
which includes guides from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
the International Atomic Energy Authority, and American Nuclear Insurers.

To order the standards, contact:

National Fire Protection Association
One Batterymarch Park, P.O. Box 9101
Quincy, MA  02269-9101 USA

In addition, you may want to know that the United States Health Physics
Society will be holding its national conference in San Antonio,Texas in
1997.  It is anticipated that Health Physics personnel from Mexico
and other countries to the South of the USA will attend and possibly
present papers on relevant topics.  The conference will be held the week
ending the fourth of July.

Good Luck - Boa Sorte!

John C. White, Radiation Safety Officer
The University of Texas at Austin   OEHS
304 E. 24th St.,  SER 202
Austin, Texas  78712-1024
(512) 471-2042
(512) 471-6918 FAX
OHJCW@UTXDP.DP.UTEXAS.EDU