Publisher's Synopsis
This book is written for people who live near to a nuclear power station and want to understand more about what could happen in a nuclear emergency and how they can protect themselves, their family and their neighbours. The book shows you how to prepare yourself and your family for a nuclear emergency and for a range of other events that might disrupt family life.It explains how releases of radioactive dusts and gases from a nuclear site can lead to an extra radiation dose to those downwind and it explains how to minimise this dose by evacuation, shelter and/or by taking stable iodine. It explains how these countermeasures work.It gives advice on how to react on first hearing the news of a nuclear accident, where to get information from and how to understand it. It also explains what you can do in your home and what happens in Reception Centres, Radiation Monitoring Units and Humanitarian Assistance Centres should you find yourself being advised to go to one of these.There are appendices on nuclear accidents and emergency plans, radiation and radiation protection, other types of radiation accident, terrorist event and nuclear bomb. These is also a template to help you think about and write your own Home Resilience Plan.It is written in the UK for UK households but most of the really useful information is valid for other countries as well.Revised in 2018 this edition corrects some mistakes, extends and updates some sections. I hope that you find it interesting and useful but that you never need to use your Home Resilience Plan in a real event.
