1. A Decision-Support System for Off-Site Nuclear Emergencies
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Xia Yihua, Liu Tiefu, Xia Honghui, Zhang Yongxing, Gan Lin, Sang Xinzeng, and Pan Su
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China ,Decision support system ,Operations research ,Cost–benefit analysis ,Epidemiology ,Computer science ,Its region ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Rank (computer programming) ,Disaster Planning ,Emergency procedure ,Decision Support Techniques ,law.invention ,Radiation Protection ,Action (philosophy) ,law ,Nuclear power plant ,Decision Support Systems, Management ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Emergencies ,Radioactive Hazard Release ,Early phase ,Power Plants - Abstract
In the case of a nuclear emergency, quick, well-founded decisions must be made about the type of protective action, its region of application, and initiation time. These typically are tasks for computer-based systems. Even with emergency-preparedness, exercises, and training, the decision-support system is one of great importance. This paper describes a decision-support system recently developed by the China Institute of Atomic Energy; it can optimally rank actions during the early phase of an accident using multiattribute utility analysis, and for the intermediate and later phases by cost-benefit analysis. This system runs both on MICRO VAX II and PC systems.
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- 1998
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