ABSTRACT
Emergency preparedness is the discipline that ensures an organization’s readiness to respond to an emergency in a coordinated, timely, and effective manner. Radiological or nuclear reactor emergency planning is a subdiscipline that ensures a readiness to respond when that emergency originates from or includes a nuclear power reactor. The concepts and discussion in the book also apply to some degree to accidents involving low-power test reactors, to fuel cycle facilities, and to nonreactor installations possessing a large enough inventory of radioactive material to require a site emergency plan. This is a resource book that serves as an introduction to the technology of planning for, and responding to, incidents at nuclear power reactors. However, radiological response is closely related to all-hazard response, and radiological emergency planners should also have some familiarity with the generalized topic of emergency planning.
