Summary and conclusions: capabilities and challenges

The varied contexts of environmental decision problems and their implications for decision support

Thereafter the Fukushima setback, different resolutions are on-going to improved arrangements among agencies responsible for the safety of such facilities and jointly developed reasonable precautions that will mitigate future calamities. This paper accomplished to recognize and represent suggested business processes for the Malaysian Nuclear Power Generating Program (NPP) based on Alter's Work System Theory (WST). The work system method often considered as effective in describing the organizational system such as NPP. This method applied to frame and understands the user requirements within the business case of NPP. As a result, the business process was determined in respect of the emergency plan accordingly. This case study analytically processed by adopting qualitative grounding processes. These processes involved coding interpretation which providing structural analysis of the suggested system requirements in a form of business process modelling. This analysis comprising process fabrication using member checking technique and workflow driven approach, which then transformed into business process simulation in the future.

Understanding and designing business process modelling for emergency plan

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan, resulting in radionuclide release. In response, US officials augmented existing radiological screening at its ports of entry (POEs) to detect and decontaminate travelers contaminated with radioactive materials. During March 12 to 16, radiation screening protocols detected 3 travelers from Japan with external radioactive material contamination at 2 air POEs. Beginning March 23, federal officials collaborated with state and local public health and radiation control authorities to enhance screening and decontamination protocols at POEs. Approximately 543 000 (99%) travelers arriving directly from Japan at 25 US airports were screened for radiation contamination from March 17 to April 30, and no traveler was detected with contamination sufficient to require a large-scale public health response. The response highlighted synergistic collaboration across government levels and leveraged screening methods already in place at POEs, leading to rapid protocol implementation. Policy development, planning, training, and exercising response protocols and the establishment of federal authority to compel decontamination of travelers are needed for future radiological responses. Comparison of resource-intensive screening costs with the public health yield should guide policy decisions, given the historically low frequency of contaminated travelers arriving during radiological disasters.

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US screening of international travelers for radioactive contamination after the Japanese nuclear plant disaster in March 2011.

Disastrous radiation and nuclear meltdown require an intricate scale of emergency health and social care capacity planning framework. In Malaysia, multiple agencies are responsible for implementing radiological and nuclear safety and security. This research project focused on the Radiological Trauma Triage (RTT) System. This system applies patient’s classification based on their injury and level of radiation sickness. This classification prioritizes on the diagnostic and treatment of the casualties which include resources estimation of the medical delivery system supply and demand. Also, this system consists of the leading rescue agency organization and disaster coordinator, as well as the technical support and radiological medical response teams. This research implemented and developed the resources planning simulator for radiological incidents management. The objective of the simulator is to assist the authorities in planning their resources while managing the radiological incidents within the Internal ...

Summary and conclusions: capabilities and challenges

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The varied contexts of environmental decision problems and their implications for decision support

Understanding and designing business process modelling for emergency plan

US screening of international travelers for radioactive contamination after the Japanese nuclear plant disaster in March 2011.

Resources planning for radiological incidents management