Decision support systems and emergency response exercises – lessons and issues
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INTRODUCTION The paper glosses on the experience of a research-oriented team routinely involved in emergency preparedness and response management activities, with the assimilation, implementation, and application of decision support systems (DSS) of continental reference in Europe, and the development of supportive, domestic radiological assessment tools. Two exemplary cases are discussed – the ConvEX 3, 2005, international alert exercise targeting a CANDU reactor at Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania, and Oltenia 07 – a nation-wide drill around a scenario involving transborder effects from a VVER reactor at Kozloduy, Bulgaria.
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