e427 All disasters are local, and a burn mass casualty incident (BMCI) is no different. During the past 150 years, burn disasters have typically been associated with three factors: a fire/explosion in a mass gathering, natural disaster, or act of war/terrorism. Although the incidence of fire/explosion disasters has decreased during the past 50 years, recent natural disasters and acts of war/ter...

This paper defines a specific plan which allows two separate institutions, with different capabilities, to function as a single receiving entity in the event of a mass casualty incident. The street between the two institutions will be closed to traffic and a two-phase process initiated. Arriving ambulances will first be quickly screened to expedite the most critical patients followed by formal ...

Defence in depth is a comprehensive and systematic approach to safety that has been developed by the nuclear power community to assure with high confidence that the public and the environment are protected from any hazards posed by the use of nuclear power for the generation of electricity. Moreover, the concepts of defence in depth and safety culture have served the nuclear power community wel...

The article discusses one of the problematic issues operating nuclear power plants - revenue losses caused by staff mistakes. Existing methods and approaches to reducing number such incidents are analyzed. Despite efforts made, problem remains relevant. One directions for equipment failures is study use internal external operational experience. A description given a system preventing recurrence...

Nuclear energy is one of the most important components world electricity supply in today's world. It provides approximately 21% OECD countries. However, there has been a growing social and academic debate over use nuclear because fact that have serious incidents accidents at power stations indicates security risk associated with NPPs not low. Particularly major accidents, Fukushima Chernobyl, c...

From Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to the recent India blackout, industrial incidents are inevitable and once occurred, their impact on the society and economy can be catastrophic. In an end user perspective, reducing such impact relies on not only efficient service recovery but also effective public communications. To achieve the latter, it requires instant resource sharing in a collabora...