Off-site emergency planning for French nuclear sites

A method is suggested to elaborate, on realistic technical basis, an off-site emergency plan for a nuclear site. This method gives an homogeneous and exhaustive structure to guide: the identification of the representative accidents that have to be taken into account in the design of an off-site plan, according to the different installations, nuclear or not, likely to be set up on the site. The assessment of this representative accident consequences on the environment and the population, the forecast and the planning, in the off-site emergency plan, of adequate counter-measures implementation with regard to this environment and the population. (author)