PURPOSES : The objective of this study was to review roadway management strategies that can be utilized in the event of a radiological emergency, select feasible alternatives, and simulate a portion of the West Coast network to analyze the effectiveness of these strategies. METHODS : The methodology of the study involved reviewing the relevant literature, extracting the implications, establishing an analysis procedure, and selecting an effectiveness evaluation scale. Using a national transportation database, a network was constructed using Toba, a macroscopic model. RESULTS : A reverse-flow lane system was applied to the West Coast Expressway Glory IC–Hampyeong IC (total 25 km), and a plan to increase the number of lanes was applied to the Seokgyo Street–Shinpyeong Intersection on National Route 23 (total extension 28 km). Consequently, both road management strategies were found to be effective. CONCLUSIONS : This study examined roadway management strategies that can be utilized in the event of a radiological emergency, selected feasible alternatives, and simulated a portion of the West Coast network to verify the effectiveness of these strategies. In the case of reverse flow lanes, it is most effective when applied to expressways that can restrict the entrance and exit of vehicles. In the case of increasing the number of lanes, it is most effective when applied to general roads, and institutional arrangements should be made to enable two-way traffic to use the reserved shoulder lanes.

The correlation between accident management plan and radiation emergency plan of Shin-Kori Units 3 and 4 was compared and analyzed from the point of view of the adequacy of facilities, equipments, organization and manpower which are necessary for the related emergency response. It was found the equipment of accident management plan and emergency response facility of radiation emergency plan had different technical contents and scope of application, so there was no risk of mutual conflict and overlapping functions. However, since the accident impact assessment code in accident management plan and computer program of radiation emergency plan were different, it was necessary to ensure the agreement or linkage of the evaluation between them. When a radiation emergency is issued in accident management plan, the composition and mission of the accident response organization were mostly consistent with the contents of the radiation emergency plan, but some corrections and improvement items were identified. Accident management plan specified that the disaster response safety center belonged to the emergency operations facility (EOF), but the radiation emergency plan did not mention it at all. The main tasks of disaster response safety center were the movement, arrangement and connection of mobile emergency response facilities, on-site construction of other emergency response facilities, and on-site road restoration. According to the accident management plan, the movement, arrangement, and connection of mobile facilities (i.e., mobile generators, mobile pumps, multi-purpose communication relay facilities), which were considered very important for the prevention and mitigation of serious accidents, were under the supervision of the disaster response safety center. It was stipulated that the operation was carried out with the cooperation of a regular emergency organization, and that the start, operation and stop of mobile equipments were to be performed under the supervision of the emergency operation team supported by the regular emergency organization. Since this organization structure and assignment of duties could not be confirmed in radiation emergency plan, it was necessary to revise and improve the radiation emergency plan for the successful operation of mobile equipments and to link them with the accident management plan.

When the leakage of radioactive material or radiation to the environment or a concern, it is important to accurately understand the impact on the environment. Therefore, environmental effects evaluation using modeling based on meteorological data and source-term data is carried out, or environmental radiation monitoring which is an emergency response activity that directly measures dose is performed. As lessons learned from the Fukushima accident, environmental effects evaluation and modeling cannot utilize during the emergency and decision-making process for protective action for the public. Thus, rapid environmental radiation monitoring is required. In Korea, when an emergency is issued at a nuclear facility, urgent environmental radiation monitoring is conducted based on the national nuclear emergency preparedness and response plan, which can provide important information for decisionmaking on public protective actions. A review of strategies for urgent environmental radiation monitoring is important in performing efficient emergency responses. The main purpose of urgent environmental radiation monitoring is to gather data for decisionmaking on public protective actions to minimize the damage from the accident. For effective data collection and distribution, support from the national and local government and local public organizations and radiation expertise groups, and nuclear facility licensee are required. In addition, an emergency environmental radiation monitoring manual is required to immediately perform environmental monitoring in an emergency situation. The manual for emergency monitoring should include the activities to be conducted according to the phases of the emergency. The phases of the emergency are divided into pre-leakage, post-leakage, intermediate, and recovery. The reasons for establishing strategies are government and public information, the implementation of urgent population protection countermeasures, predicting and tracking plume trajectory, and detection of any release, the protection of emergency and recovery workers, the implementation of agricultural countermeasures and food restrictions, the implementation of intermediate- and recovery-phase countermeasures, contamination control. Besides meteorological data, ambient dose rate and dose, airborne radionuclide concentration, environmental deposition, food, water, and environmental contamination, individual dose, and object surface contamination data are also required for making information for the public.

한 대학병원 응급실에 방문한 응급환자들이 방사선에 얼마나 피폭되는지를 알아보고자, 2006년 3월 16일 부터 31일까지 15일 동안 방문환자 200명을 임의 추출하여 방사선 피폭선량을 측정한 결과는 다 음과 같다 1. 연구대상자의 분포는 타병원전원환자 50명(25.0%), 교통사고환자 24명(8.3%),기타사고환자 50명 (25.0%), 일반환자 76명(38.0%)이었다. 2. 환자의 방사선 촬영횟수를 보면 환자 1인당 타병원, 전원환자 6.4회, 교통사고환자 14.5회, 사고환 자 2.6회, 일반환자 2.4회로 교통사고환자들이 타환자군에 비해 방사선촬영 건수가 3～4배 많았다 3. 환자의 방사선촬영종류별 피폭선량을 보면 일반촬영 28.9mGy, CT촬영 84.2 mGy, 특수촬영 1.02mGy로 CT촬영피폭이 일반촬영 비해 10배 정도 많았다. 4. 환자의 평균 방사선 피폭선량을 보면 타병원 전원환자는 24.6mGy, 교통사고환자는 55.2 mGy, 사 고환자는 17.1mGy 일반환자는 17.0mGy로 타병원 전원환자와 교통사고환자가 상대적으로 피폭이 많았다. 5. 방사선촬영 부위별로 보면 일반촬영에서는 두부피폭 1.7mGy로 사고환자에서 피폭이 많았고, 흉 부 2.0mGy, 복부 1.6mGy는 일반환자 에게 많았으며, 척추 3.4mGy, 골반부 1.8mGy, 상지부 0.5mGy, 하지부 0.6mGy는 교통사고 환자에게 피폭이 많았으며, 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다 (P<0.001). 6. CT촬영에서는 타병원 및 전원환자가 두부 10.9mGy으로 많았고, 흉부와 복부는 각각 2.9mGy, 3.6mGy로 일반환자에게 많았고, 척추, 골반부 1,9mGy 2.7mGy는 교통사고환자에게 많았다. 특히 복부피폭은 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다.(P<0.05) 결론적으로 한 대학병원 방문한 응급환자 특히 교통사고환자의 방사선 검사시 일반 외래 환자들의 촬영보다는 과다한 검사와 피폭이 노출선량한도가 2배 이상 증가하는 실정이다. 따라서 병원 관리자 및 방사선취급자는 환자 방사선 촬영시 노출을 최소한으로 제한하고, 방사선피폭감소를 위해 병원의 종 사자인 방사선사의 기술적인 연구와 및 보조연구자 및 의료인 등 모두가 예방할 수 있는 대책이 필요할 것으로 생각한다.