[en] The Hanford Facility Contingency Plan, together with each TSD unit-specific contingency plan, meets the WAC 173-303 requirements for a contingency plan. This plan includes descriptions of responses to a nonradiological hazardous materials spill or release at Hanford Facility locations not covered by TSD unit-specific contingency plans or building emergency plans. This plan includes descriptions of responses for spills or releases as a result of transportation activities, movement of materials, packaging, and storage of hazardous materials

[en] This guidance is designed to provide basic instruction to US DOE and DOE operations contractor personnel on how to characterize CERCLA and EPCRA hazardous substance releases as continuous and how to prepare and deliver continuousreleasee reports to Federal, State, and local authorities. DOE staff should use this guidance as an overview of the continuous release requirements, a quick ready reference guide for specific topics concerning continuous releases and a step-by-step guide for the process of identifying and reporting continuous releases

[en] Personnel from both the public and private sectors have been involved for many years in pre-planning for hazardous materials releases at fixed installations all over the world. As a result of several major petroleum releases during marine transportation, oil companies, private contractors and government agencies have been preparing contingency plans for oil spills and other petroleum product releases in marine settings. Various industry groups have also developed plans for railway and pipeline disasters. These response plans are of varying quality, complexity and usefulness. Organizations such as plant emergency response teams, government agencies, contract response and clean-up crews and fire departments use these plans as a basis for training and resource allocation, hopefully becoming familiar enough with them that the plans are truly useful when product releases occur. Planners and emergency responders to hazardous materials releases must overcome some of the deficiencies which have long stood in the way of efficient and effective response and mitigation efforts. Specifically they must recognize and involve all resources with which they may respond or interact during an incident. This involvement should begin with the planning stages and carry through to training and emergency response and recovery efforts. They must ensure that they adopt and utilize a common command and control system and that all potential resources know this system thoroughly and train together before the incident occurs. It is only through incorporating these two factors that may successfully combat the ever growing number of unwanted product releases occurring in the more difficult realm of transportation

[en] This document is the emergency preparedness hazards assessment for Bechtel Hanford, Inc. facilities in the 100 Areas of the Hanford Site that are managed under the Surveillance/ Maintenance and Transition program. A facility-specific hazards assessment is required by DOE Order 5500.3A and successor DOE Order 151.1 for facilities that exceed screening thresholds. A hazards assessment identifies the hazardous material at each facility, identifies the conditions that could release the hazardous material, and calculates the consequences of the releases. The hazards assessment is the technical basis for the facility emergency plans and procedures

[en] The effects of metal contamination on the liquid chromatographic (LC) determination of paralytic shellfish poisons have been investigated. There is an indication that the presence of ferric ions can cause conversion of at least one toxin to another. The mechanism of this reaction is at present unknown. In order to discover the effects of metal on the toxins, several approaches were adopted, including addition of metal powders to paralytic shellfish poisons containing solutions. The authors show that the operation of a metal component LC system is generally vindicated. (author). 10 refs.; 3 figs

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[en] Health and safety are primary concerns to hazardous materials first responders, and the capacity to respond on site during an oil or chemical spill is a central component of Environment Canada's Environmental Emergency Response Program. Hazardous materials response groups must address the need to decontaminate its team members or field personnel when working at a site potentially contaminated by chemicals. The aim of this paper was to present a detailed summary of Environment Canada's new decontamination unit, including details of construction layout, on-board equipment, operational procedures and intended uses. Various decontamination units were reviewed, including commercial portable decontamination units and dedicated mobile decontamination units. Details of specifications and a background of the construction, planning and design of Environment Canada's new mobile decontamination unit were presented. The unit was put through several trials to assess and evaluate its various systems, including road, load and towing tests, packing and mobilization studies and a review of plumbing and shower features. Details of training exercises pertaining to the unit were also presented. It was concluded that further work is required, including the development of standard operating procedures to deploy and set up decontamination units, test ventilation systems and establish a maintenance schedule. The planned completion date is August 2005. 2 refs

[en] This document quantifies the offsite radiological consequence of the bounding mixing of incompatible materials accident for comparison with the 25 rem Evaluation Guideline established in DOE-STD-3009, Appendix A. Conservative input parameters were applied in accordance with the guidance provided. The calculated offsite dose does not challenge the Evaluation Guideline. Revision 1 incorporates comments received from the Office of River Protection

[en] The UN system of hazardous cargo classification is divided into 9 classes depending on the type of hazardous cargo safety. The names of ADB classes are listed in the Hazardous Cargo Agreement. Radioactive substances: belong to 7^th class and they have background radiation. It is impossible to identify with normal sense organs. Radiation can be measured by the deviceheyger indicator. The specific radioactivity of the substance is the number of atomic changes occurring per second, so pulsation of the Heyger counter is taken equed to Beckerel. It 1 kg of substance contains 70.000 Beckerel, it is classified as 7''th class and its transportation is governed by special rules.

[en] The research is concerned with attemps of separation and isolating some compounds from the toxic aqueous extract of Eminium Spiculatum, which is mainly distributed in the northern part of Iraq, using different biochemical techniques. (7 tabs., 28 figs., 77 refs.)