Nuclear Plants and Emergency Virtual Simulations based on a Low-cost Engine Reuse

• Autor(a) principal: JORGE, Carlos Alexandre Fructuoso
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: MÓL, Antônio Carlos de Abreu, PEREIRA, Cláudio Márcio do Nascimento Abreu, http://lattes.cnpq.br/8908051632039103, http://lattes.cnpq.br/1168989222280325, http://lattes.cnpq.br/2341184189645578
• Tipo de documento: Capítulo de livro
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do IEN
• Texto Completo: http://carpedien.ien.gov.br:8080/handle/ien/1671
• topic: Nuclear Plants; Emergency Virtual; Radiation dose simulation

Our industrialised society comprises many industrial processes that are very important for everyone, in a wide range of fields. Activities related to these industrial processes, though, involve, in higher or lower degrees, some risk for personnel,  besides risk for the general public in some cases. Therefore, efficient training programs and simulations are highly required, to improve the processes involved, increasing safety for people. To cite an example, nuclear plants pose high safety requirements in operational and maintenance routines, to keep plants in safe operation conditions and reduce personnel exposure to radiation dose. Besides operational and maintenance in nuclear plants, there are also other situations where efficient training is required, as in evacuation planning from buildings in emergency situations. Also, rescue tasks play similar role. These apply specially for nuclear sites. Another situation that requires efficient training is security, what has special meaning for plants that involve dangerous materials, such as nuclear plants. Nuclear materials must be kept under high security level, to avoid any misuse.