In a number of high hazard organizations, where the risk of error involves dire consequences, leaders manage for safe, reliable performance. As a result, the term High Reliability Organization has been coined to describe organizations with exemplary track records of safety: aviation, chemical manufacturing, shipping, nuclear power production, and the military. This concept is rooted in the anal...

There is a substantial body of literature on psychosocial impacts of chemical and nuclear accidents. Less attention, however, has been focused on the program and policy issues that are connected with efforts to provide psychosocial assistance to the victims of such accidents. Because psychosocial assistance efforts are certain to be an essential part of the response to future environmental emer...

This paper aims to estimate the rate of particulate contaminants emitted by multiple sources, whose values are unknown, using identified receptors distributed around sources. In a nuclear emergency with release radionuclides into atmosphere, in order make correct decision, it is necessary identify source term and its rate, as well meteorological data, essential factors for defining direction si...

A National Emergency Plan was set up in Italy after the Chernobyl accident, to cope with the following nuclear risk sources: accidents in foreign nuclear power plants or aboard nuclearpropelled ships, falling of satellites using nuclear power units, transportation of radioactive materials. Moreover, this plan gives the general requirements of the emergency preparedness and response to be implem...