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1
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What are the 3 fission product barriers?

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  • Fuel cladding
  • RCS piping
  • Containment
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What is the Plume Exposure EPZ?

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  • 10 mi radius (Short Term)

- Prevents or minimizes radiation exposure to the public from the passage of a radioactive plume

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What is the Ingestion Exposure EPZ?

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  • 50 mi radius (Long Term)
  • Prevent or minimize radiation exposure to the general public resulting from consumption of contaminated food/dairy products
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What PAR might be recommended for Plume Exposure pathway?

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  • Sheltering

- Evacuation

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What PAR might be recommended for ingestion Exposure pathway?

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  • Random Sampling
  • Confiscation
  • Stored feed for livestock
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When MUST cook issue a PAR to the state of Michigan?

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  • General Emergency
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Does the State of Michigan have to use Cook’s PAR?

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No, they can accept, reject or modify Cook’s PAR, the state has the responsibility of the public

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What does 10 CFR 50.47, Emergency Classification, specify?

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  • Classification of Events for all Nuke Plants
    1. Unusual Event
    2. Alert
    3. Site Area Emergency
    4. General Emergency
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What classifies an Unusual Event?

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  • Events in progress or have occurred which INDICATE a POTENTIAL degradation of the safety of the plant or INDICATE a SECURITY THREAT to the plant
  • No release of radioactive material are expected
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What classifies an Alert?

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  • Events in progress or have occurred which INVOLVE an ACTUAL or POTENTIAL degradation of the level of safety of the plant or a SECURITY EVENT that involves PROBABLE LIFE THREATENING RISK to site personnel or damage to site equipment
  • Any RELEASES are expected to be LIMITED to SMALL FRACTIONS of the EPA PAR guideline exposure levels
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What classifies a Site Area Emergency?

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  • Events in progress or have occurred which INVOLVE an ACTUAL or LIKELY MAJOR FAILURES of PLANT FUNCTIONS NEEDED for the PROTECTION of the PUBLIC or HOSTILE ACTIONS that resulted in INTENTIAL DAMAGE or MALICIOUS ACTS toward site personnel or equipment that could lead to the likely failure of or prevent access to equipment needed for protection of the public
  • Any RELEASES are expected to be LIMITED to SMALL FRACTIONS of the EPA PAR exposure levels
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What classifies a General Emergency?

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  • Events in progress or have occurred which INVOLVE an ACTUAL or IMMINENT SUBSTANTIAL CORE DEGRADATION or MELTING with the POTENTIAL for LOSS of CONTAINMENT INTEGRITY or HOSTILE ACTION that RESULTS in an ACTUAL LOSS of PHYSICAL CONTROL of the PLANT
  • RELEASES can be reasonably EXPECTED to EXCEED EPA PAR exposure limits beyond site boundary
  • Usually involves a LOSS OF 2 FISSION PRODUCT BARRIERS, with the potential to LOSE A THIRD
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How soon does the State and county have to be notified?

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  • within 15 min of declaration
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How soon does the NRC have to be notified?

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  • within 1 hr of declaration and as soon as possible after the state and county are notified
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What is the purpose of the TSC?

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  • Provide Technical Support to CR
  • Primary ONSITE Communications Center
  • Assist in preventing CR overcrowding
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Which center provides support during short-term emergencies until all required centers both on and offsite have been activated and how?

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  • TSC
  • Provide Technical Support to Ops personnel as requested
  • Directing the activities of site personnel
  • Evaluating offsite agency requests and recomm. to ensure compatibility with ER objectives
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Which center(s) can perform the functions of the EOF until the EOF is activated?

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  • TSC and CR
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When must the TSC be activated?

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  • Alert or higher (within 1 hr of declaration)

- SM/SEC may activate earlier

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Who is in charge of the TSC?

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  • Site Emergency Coordinator (SEC)
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Who is in charge of the overall site response?

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  • SEC (SM is initially the SEC)
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What is the purpose of the OSC?

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  • Implement corrective actions
  • ONSITE rad Assessments
  • Supply personnel to support the TSC and CR
  • Dispatch Emergency response teams
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When must the OSC be activated?

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  • Alert or higher (within 1 hr of declaration)

- SM/SEC may activate earlier

23
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Who is in charge of the OSC?

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  • OSC Manager
24
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Who dispatches Emergency Response Teams?

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  • OSC
25
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What are the Emergency Response Teams?

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  • Damage Control Team
  • Rescue Team
  • Survey Team
26
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What does the Damage Control Team do?

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  • Repair/restore damaged plant equipment, components, or systems
27
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What does the Rescue Team do?

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  • Re-enter areas for monitoring, decon and repair

- Rescue trapped or injured individuals or find people who are unaccounted for

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What does the ONSITE Survey Team do?

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  • Determine habitability of Onsite Emergency Response facilities
  • Gather rad data for future team briefings
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What does the OFFSITE Survey Team do?

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  • Track Rad Plumes

- Provide rad data to be used in dose assessment and PAR Development

30
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Where does the ONSITE survey team report back to?

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  • OSC
31
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Where does the OFFSITE survey team report back to?

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  • EOF (offsite)
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What is the purpose of the EOF?

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  • OFFSITE Dose Assessment
  • OFFSITE Communications Center
  • Management of overall licensee emergency response
  • Coordination of rad and environmental assessment
  • Develop PARS
  • Coordination of ER activities with state, federal, and local agencies
  • Recovery functions
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What does the EOF contain and perform?

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  • Perform rad evaluations
  • interface with offsite agencies
  • manage offsite resources
  • Contains operations room (crisis management team)
  • contains NRC office
34
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When must the EOF be activated?

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  • Alert or higher (within 1 hr of declaration)

- SM/SEC may activate earlier

35
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Who is in charge of the EOF?

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  • Emergency Director
36
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Who is in charge of the AEP Emergency Response Organization?

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  • Emergency Director
37
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When is the Emergency News Center (ENC) activated?

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  • ALERT only (90 min from declaration)
38
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What is the purpose of the Emergency News Center (ENC)?

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  • Initial source of press release
39
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When is the Joint Info Center (JIC) activated?

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  • Site Area Emergency or higher
40
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What is the purpose of the Joint Info Center (JIC)?

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  • Primary Media Center

- Staffed by AEP, County, State, and Federal personnel

41
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Who declares that a facility a JIC?

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  • State of Michigan
42
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If SM uses ERONS code 007, what do you do?

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  • If ONSITE, DO NOT report to Emer. Response Facilities, follow directions of PA announcements/Security’s directions
  • If OFFSITE, Report to Buchanan Office Building and call the number
43
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Who should respond in actual events?

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  • All ERO members who can respond should
44
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How do you respond to a Wide Spread, Large Scale Natural event?

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  • Even if pagers don’t go off or phone calls aren’t received, JUST REPORT
45
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How long do you need to be fit for duty?

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  • 24hrs a day each day of a duty week

- No alcohol or drugs

46
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If you find yourself no longer fit for duty, what do you need to do?

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  • contact your supervisor and have them contact the on duty EP coordinator
47
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Who’s responsibility to find a qualified ERO member to replace someone that isn’t fit for duty?

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  • The ERO members supervisor
48
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When must you call to accept your ERO duty?

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  • Tuesday morning of the duty week once the ERONS pagers are activated (2 hours)
  • Expectation is within 10 min of receiving the ERONS page
49
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How close do your facility do you have to be when you are on a duty week?

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  • Within 45 min of your facility

- Within 75 min for JIC

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