Protective Actions - hdbk55040052

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7. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS

Planning Standard: The emergency plan should provide for specific, predetermined actions to be taken

in response to emergency conditions to protect onsite personnel and the public.

Evaluation Guidance:

Source

Applicability &

Reference

Plan Element

Plan Reference

7.1 Protective Action Guides (PAGs)

DOE 5500.3A

Protective Action Guidance. The emergency plans

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11.c.(6)(a);

should contain Protective Action Guides (PAGs) and

EMG-F/C

Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs),

7,7.1,7.2;

prepared in conformance with DOE approved guidance,

EMG-PA C.1.a

for use in protective action decision making.

(1)

The plan should contain numerical protective action

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guidance (PACs) for initiation of protective actions.

For a particular hazard, the numerical guidance

should be expressed in units that can be readily

correlated with both the potential for health impact

(e.g., peak concentration, cumulative dose or

exposure) and information that will be available to

decision makers during an emergency, such as

results of consequence calculations or

measurements.

(2)

All facilities and activities on a given DOE site

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should use the same PACs for a particular hazard.

(3)

The same PACs should be applied to onsite and

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offsite personnel. However, the Guidance for

onsite thyroid doses from airborne radioiodines

may be stated in terms of the doses to an adult

rather than an infant, unless a child care center or

visitor center with children is located on the site.