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  • Vulnerability assessment as a missing part of efficient regulatory emergency preparedness system for nuclear critical infrastructure
    Kostadinov, Venceslav
    The fundamental aim of efficient regulatory emergency preparedness and response system is to provide sustained emergency readiness and to prevent emergency situation and accidents. But when event ... happens the regulatory mission is to mitigate consequences and to protect people and environment against nuclear and radiological damage. The regulatory emergency response system, which would be activated in the case of nuclear and/or radiological emergency and release of radioactivity to the environment, is an important element of a comprehensive national regulatory system of nuclear and radiationsafety. In the past national emergency systems explicitly did not include vulnerability assessments of critical nuclear infrastructure as important part of comprehensive preparedness framework. After the terrorist attacks on 11.09.2001 decision-makers become aware that nuclear critical infrastructure could also be an attractive target to terrorism, with the purpose of using the physical and radioactive properties of the nuclear material to cause mass casualties, property damage, and detrimental economic and/or environmental impacts. The necessity to evaluate critical nuclear infrastructure vulnerability to threats like human occurrences, terrorist attacks and natural disasters and preparation of emergency response plans withestimation of optimized costs are of vital importance for assurance of safe nuclear facilities operation and national security. The new methodology and solution methods for vulnerability assessment can help overall national energy sector to identify and understand the terrorist threats to and vulnerabilities of their critical infrastructure. Moreover, the methodology could help national regulators and agencies to develop and implement a vulnerability awareness and education programs for their critical assets to enhance the security and safe operation of the entire energy infrastructure. New methods can also help nuclear power plants to develop, validate, and disseminate assessment and survey of new efficient countermeasures. First attempts of developing new procedure and adapting the methodology for nuclear regulatory vulnerability assessment of nuclear power plants are presented.
    Source: Atw. Internationale Zeitschrift für Kernenergie. - ISSN 1431-5254 (Jg. 51, H. 2, 2006, p. 632-635)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2006
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 323056

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