Basic recommendations for disaster control in the area of nuclear facilities

The Federal government and the Laender governments have established these basic recommendations in order to harmonize the local emergency plans of the operators and the disaster control plans of the authorities which are required not only for nuclear facilities but for all facilities with a certain hazard potential, while giving special attention to the danger of radiation as a special factor. Contents: A. Relation between the planning by the authorities and the measures taken by nuclear power plant operators. B. Basic pinciples for the establishment of special disaster control plans for the neighbourhood of nuclear facilities: I. General; II. Lay-out and classification of the special disaster control plans: 1. contents, 2. continuation record, 3. disaster control management, 4. graphical, schematic representations of alarm systems, 5. collecting point and marking of the personnel employed, 6. subdividing the neighbourhood of a nuclear facility, 7. alarm stages, 8. survey of alarm measures. C. Explanation of the alarm measures: 1. giving the alarm, 2. employment of the measuring service, measurements, 3. informing the population, 4. traffic control, 5. distribution of iodine tablets, 6. evacuation, 7. giving warning to downstream water collecting centres, 8. decontamination. D. Annex to the special disaster warding-off plans. E. Preparatory measures of the disaster control authority. Annex: Radiological principles for the planning of emergency protection measures. (orig./HP)