Piratome plan: study of the procedures of decontamination

The firemen radiological units, created in 1980, are teams of 7 firemen able to cope with and overcome an incident or an accident of a radioactive nature. Some fire brigades have been equipped with decontamination units insuring the treatment of contaminated people. In 2004, radiological unit of Yveline's county tested the decontamination unit with real radioactive contamination three times. The technetium-99m has a half life of six hours. Contaminated victims were dummies. Much knowledge were gained from these experiments and as result have induced a revision of operational doctrine and technique. (author)