Abstract
The outlook concerning the occurrence of industrial accidents has led to the implementation of response systems based on geoprocessing tools, which are widely adopted in emergency for such ventures, since they have helped and served as a support for decision making, as well as for the preparation of guidelines aimed at managing emergencies. Nuclear power plants, because they constitute types of industrial activities that present dangerous conditions and attention regarding security are characterized as hazardous, especially due to consequences that occurred from large accidents— such as Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011)—highlighting the importance to its negative impacts, since the occurrence of accidents at nuclear power plants may affect surrounding areas, thus exposing a set of elements that are part of the environmental dynamics that integrates the catchment area where this type of plant is situated. In this way, through an integrated view of the region where the nuclear complex is located in Angra dos Reis City (Rio de Janeiro State) and, also, by aggregating information that portray the geobiophysical reality of its surroundings, several elements were incorporated into a database developed in a virtual environment, in which was produced a geographic information system (GIS) that presents a complex of variables that, once considered, can enhance various analysis in order to support emergency situations and planning, as well as guidelines that help define actions from the occurrence of accidental events at the nuclear plant.
Highlights
In recent years, the areas of accident prevention and emergency response planning have become controversial issues, due to the occurrence of large accidents with variable spatial distribution [1]
The outlook concerning the occurrence of industrial accidents has led to the implementation of response systems based on geoprocessing tools, which are widely adopted in emergency for such ventures, since they have helped and served as a support for decision making, as well as for the preparation of guidelines aimed at managing emergencies
Through an integrated view of the region where the nuclear complex is located in Angra dos Reis City (Rio de Janeiro State) and, by aggregating information that portray the geobiophysical reality of its surroundings, several elements were incorporated into a database developed in a virtual environment, in which was produced a geographic information system (GIS) that presents a complex of variables that, once considered, can enhance various analysis in order to support emergency situations and planning, as well as guidelines that help define actions from the occurrence of accidental events at the nuclear plant
Summary
The areas of accident prevention and emergency response planning have become controversial issues, due to the occurrence of large accidents with variable spatial distribution [1]. Because of accidents in the industry generally and in the nuclear industry, the security issue began to attract attention, overall because of the fragility that such ventures demonstrate when the causes and key consequences generated as a whole to the environment-society and its vicinity are analyzed in depth, including environmental and socioeconomic aspects, and considered vulnerable to accidents. In this sense, the occurrence of accidents motivated international organizations to develop guidelines, recommendations and legal requirements for planning emergency control in industries, which resulted in the creation of a variety of emergency response systems.
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