Emergency Planning Exercises

[sandy_perle@email.fpl.com]

     Last evening I wrote about emergency drills that are scheduled. I did 
     NOT want to imply that the drills objectives or scenarios were known 
     to the participants. The only thing known is that there is a drill, 
     and that it will occur at a specific time, and whether or not the 
     organization needs to be pre-staged or if it's a real-time activation. 
     The participants and their roles are also pre-established.
     
     I'd also like to emphasize a very important point that Regis Greenwood 
     made, that to exercise the governmental agencies we ultimately release 
     more radioactivity from the plant that is feasibly or realistically 
     possible. This gives the false conclusion to the governmental agencies 
     that this is a real possibility, which it is not. Worse than that, we 
     have to play the game when dealing with the real media, newspapers, TV 
     and radio individuals that are in the Emergency news Center, and they 
     go away believing that the scenario and results of radioactivity 
     releases is in fact real. THAT is the worse problem with emergency 
     exercises. It is an educational issue that needs to be continually 
     stressed with the media prior to and following a drill. Unfortunately, 
     the media is constantly changing, therefore the educational needs must 
     be met on a continual basis.
     
     Sandy Perle
     Supervisor Health Physics
     Florida Power and Light Company
     Nuclear Division
     
     (407) 694-4219 Office
     (407) 694-3706 Fax
     
     sandy_perle@email.fpl.com
     
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