1.1 Purpose
This Guideline is formulated according to Regulation on the Safety Supervision and Management of Civil Nuclear Facilities of the People's Republic of China and Regulation on Emergency Management of Nuclear Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants as well as other laws and regulations of nuclear safety with a view to providing guidance for civil nuclear fuel cycle facilities (hereinafter referred to as nuclear fuel cycle facilities) operating entities formulating emergency plan, carrying out emergency preparedness and conducting emergency response actions in case of accident.
This Guideline is guidance document; when formulating emergency plan and conducting emergency response actions, the operating entities may not adopt the scheme and method recommended in this Guideline, but they must prove that the adopted scheme and method have the safety level not inferior to that of this Guideline to the national nuclear safety supervision and control department.
1.2 Scope
This Guideline is applicable to emergency plan, emergency preparedness and emergency response of entities operating civil nuclear fuel cycle facilities (including facilities for uranium mining and metallurgy, conversion, isotope separation, element manufacture and fuel reprocessing as well as radioactive waste treatment and disposal facilities) excepting nuclear reactor as well as examination and evaluation of national nuclear safety supervision and control department on the emergency plan of operating entities.
This Guideline proposes basic requirements on the emergency plan formulation of the nuclear fuel cycle facilities operating entities and guiding suggestions on emergency plan contents and compiling format as well as emergency preparedness and emergency response capability maintenance of operating entities, and it also provides guiding principle for emergency plan implementation procedure compilation.
As for different types of nuclear fuel cycle facilities, vast differences exist in quantity, physical chemistry form, nuclide composition, radioactive activity and characteristic of nuclear material and other radioactive substances processed, treated or stored by them, and the characteristics of their process technology, work engineering facilities and operation mode are different, therefore, the property of the possible nuclear accident existing in them and the radiological consequence may be very different. Thus, the requirements of their emergency plan, emergency preparedness and emergency response are different. This Guideline will not specially discuss the above-mentioned differences. In case the operating entities use this Guideline, they must carry out threat assessment and analysis in combination with the characteristics of the nuclear fuel cycle facilities and formulate emergency plan and emergency response scheme taking evaluation on various possible nuclear and radiation accident consequences as basis and referring to this Guideline.
2 Emergency Plan Formulation
1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Scope
2 Emergency Plan Formulation
2.1 Requirements of Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Response in Different Stages
2.2 Emergency Plan Formulation
2.3 Accident Considered in Emergency Plan
2.4 Emergency Plan Implementation Procedure
3 Emergency Organization
3.1 Emergency Organization of Operating Entities
3.2 Emergency Command
3.3 Emergency Action Team
3.4 Interface with Off-site Emergency Organization
4 Emergency State and Emergency Action Level
4.1 Emergency State Classification
4.2 Determination of Emergency State Class of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
4.3 Emergency Action Level
5 Emergency Planning Zone
5.1 General Requirements for Emergency Planning Zone Establishment
5.2 Determination of Emergency Planning Zone
6 Emergency Facilities and Emergency Equipment
6.1 Overview
6.2 Emergency Control Center
6.3 Control Room
6.4 Communication System
6.5 Monitoring and Evaluating Facilities and Equipment
6.6 Protective Equipment and Apparatus
6.7 First-Aid and Medical Facilities
6.8 Other Emergency Equipment and Goods and Materials
6.9 Emergency Evacuation Routes and Emergency Assembly Points
7 Emergency Response and Protective Measures
7.1 General
7.2 Intervention Principle and Intervention Level
7.3 Emergency Response Actions
7.4 Emergency Response Actions in Emergency States of All Classes
7.5 Evaluation Activity
7.6 Remedial Action
7.7 Protective Action
7.8 Emergency Exposure Control
7.9 Medical Rescue
8 Emergency Termination and Restoration Action
8.1 Termination of Emergency State
8.2 Restoration Actions
9 Maintenance of Emergency Response Capability
9.1 Training
9.2 Exercise
9.3 Maintenance of Emergency Facilities and Equipment
9.4 Deliberation and Modification of Emergency Plan
10 Record and Report
10.1 Record
10.2 Emergency Announcement and Report
10.3 Final Evaluation Report of Accident
Terminologies
Appendix A Brief Introduction of the Standard Format and Content for In-site Emergency Plan of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
A.1 General Provisions
A.2 Overview of the Facilities and Their Environment
A.3 Emergency State Classification and Emergency Action Level
A.4 Emergency Organization
A.5 Emergency Planning Zone
A.6 Emergency Facilities and Equipment
A.7 Emergency Response and Protective Measures
A.8 Emergency Termination and Restoration Action
A.9 Maintenance of Emergency Capability
A.10 Record and Report
A.11 Appendix
Appendix B Brief Introduction of Execution Procedure for In-site Emergency Plan of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
B.1 Emergency Starting Procedure
B.2 Procedure for Emergency Action
B.3 Auxiliary Procedure
Appendix C Reference Accidents for Emergency Plan of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
Appendix D Examples of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Emergency Action Level