Nuclear Power Safeguards Act
Category: Environmental
Area of Effect: All Businesses
Proposed by: Pharthan
AIMS to set definite preventative measures for safety in regards to nuclear power;
UNDERSTANDS that a nuclear meltdown can have an international effect;
HEREBY defines for the purposes of this resolution:
- Nuclear power as the use of sustained nuclear reactions of fission to generate heat and do useful work,
- Radiological disaster as a loss of control of radiation or radiological material, hazarding the safety of the public and environment or exceeding of exposure limits due to ionizing radiation,
- Decay heat as thermal energy from the fission or decay of fission products or fuel of reactors,
- Nuclear safety as the ability to prevent a nuclear meltdown or excess decay heat generation resulting in harm to the environment or public or unintended release of fission products.
LIMITS the resolution to facilities not mobile under their own power to protect facilities which may have other means of protection.
REQUIRES nations operating nuclear reactors applicable to this resolution to maintain their own the nuclear safety organization (NSO), to protect national and international populations, with the power and duty to:
1. Mandate shutdown of reactors deemed to not meet reactor safety standards until deficiencies are corrected and the facility is certified safe by the NSO.
2. Ensure that all reactors must have available:3. Inspect reactor plants at least once every two years to of evaluate nuclear-safety standards, procedures, systems, and materials and inform the facility of deficiencies.
- Four provided methods of Decay Heat Removal (DHR) with two methods to implement each.
- One DHR method may be the same as normal power-operation heat-removal.
- In addition to 2aI, one method must be able to account for Design Worst Case Decay Heat Generation (DHG) and still prevent a radiological disaster, without an external power source.
- Methods described in (2) must be resistant to natural disasters and their magnitudes they are susceptible to, to be determined by the NSO based on historical and geological data.
- One remaining DHR method may be heat loss to ambient.
- If (2) cannot be met, the reactor plant must stop operations which promote DHG.
- Requirements of 2a need not be met if 2aII may be met by 2aIV.
- Two methods of ceasing DHG processes are available capable of compensating for maximum possible reactor power at operation.
- One method must not require an external power source to the facility.
4. Advise courses of action and guidelines for nuclear safety to facilities.
5. During investigations, test knowledge of operators of nuclear facilities to ensure they are properly trained.
6. Establish exposure limits for the populace in regards to exposure to nuclear power to ensure they receive less than harmful levels of radiation exposure due to the facilities.
ESTABLISHES the World Nuclear Regulatory Agency with the responsibility and power to:
1. Once every ten years certify individual nation's NSO to verify level of knowledge, attention to detail in inspections, and that the organization is maintaining standards.
2. Mandate and advise the national NSO on how to correct deficiencies in order to maintain the organization operational.
3. Collect information on and advise NSOs on best practices, observed in various nations to all member nations, provided the nation does not deem the information confidential.
REQUIRES reactor plant agencies to abide by advisories and mandates of the NSO.
MANDATES nations to establish procedures and arrangements to maintain safety and update them as deficiencies are discovered.
OOC NOTES:
Nuclear Disaster Response act #60 only deals with response and not at all with prevention, so a preventative resolution would not overlap.
Workplace Safety act #7 would only matter with handling of materials and personnel safety and would not prevent meltdown and does not make any requirements to keep personnel safe against I foreseeable circumstances.
Disaster Preparedness act #105 deals only with reactor containment (in its statement of "structure") and would not prevent meltdown.
The below are related resolutions.
Ambassador Benjamin Reynolds stood at his podium, confidently, and began. "Ladies and Gentlemen of the World Assembly, it was brought to my attention by Pharthan's Nuclear Regulatory Agency that, while Pharthan and many other nations have sufficient nuclear safeguards, others are operating old, outdated, or unsafe reactors, or are just plain careless with their operation." He paused. "Furthermore, while there are a good many resolutions involving direct safety of workers, or how to respond to a nuclear accident, there yet remain to be any resolutions regarding preventing one. As such, the Nation of Pharthan is proposing a Nuclear Safeguards Resolution to ensure all reactor plants are equipped with sufficient safeguards to ensure the protection of our international citizenry. I will now turn over the floor to a representative from Pharthan's Nuclear Regulatory Agency to answer the more technical questions regarding this issue."
OOC:
Still trying to figure out which category this should fall under.