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4.2.16. Plans and procedures (B4 elements)
B4 - PLANS AND PROCEDURES Threat category Responsibility
Elements I II III IV V O L N
B4.1 Make plans or other arrangements for co-ordinating the national response to the range of potential
nuclear and radiological emergencies. Designate the organization responsible for the development and
maintenance of arrangements for co-ordinated national response; describe the responsibilities of the
operators and other response organizations; and describe the co-ordination effected with the arrangements
for response to a conventional emergency. Include provisions that can be used to formulate a detailed
response to events such as serious exposure or contamination resulting from contact with a source by a
member of the public; notification of a potential transnational release; discovery of a shipment containing
a dangerous source that is not under control; notification of the potential re-entry of a satellite; public
concern or rumours about an actual or perceived threat; and other unanticipated events warranting
intervention (5.13).
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The national response could be co-ordinated through the use of plans, letters of agreement, a standing
organization (e.g. a national response committee).
The national response arrangements should address the events described in Appendix 7 and, if
appropriate, Appendix 6. The national response should be consistent with the concept of operation
contained in Section 4.1, and Appendix 6 and 7.
B4.2 Ensure that each response organization prepares a general plan for co-ordinating and performing
their assigned functions. Include situations involving such sources of exposure as sources illegally brought
into the State, falling satellites equipped with sources, or radioactive materials released in accidents
beyond national borders. Prepare emergency plans that specify how the responsibilities for the
management of interventions will be discharged on the site, off the site and across national boundaries, as
appropriate, in separate but interconnecting plans (5.14).
Develop a set of consistent emergency plans for the national, local and facility levels as described in
Appendix 12. Integrate these plans with those used to respond to conventional emergencies. The resulting
integrated response should be consistent with the concepts of operations in Section 4.1 and Appendix. 6
and 7.