Abstract

GIS To Improve Emergency Services Response To Nuclear Incident
Track: Homeland and National Security
Authors: Yann KACENELEN

In the event of a nuclear incident or accident, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the Essonne County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS) have been collaborating to set up the Saclay Research Center's Emergency Response Plan since 1991. In September 2009, this plan's renewal led to an Emergency Preparedness Exercise where M2IRAGE, an application prototype based on ArcGIS Server technologies, was tested. M2IRAGE fulfilled crisis managers' expectations to ease radiological on-field data collection and geographic visualization in order to quickly help manage emergency organization and health response within two hours after the warning. M2IRAGE's capabilities earned the application the support of the French Civil Protection Directorate. Some new modeling functionalities are being developed in the framework of an Emergency Exercise to be carried out in January 2012 in Southern France. A nation-scale deployment of M2IRAGE by the CEA, still in collaboration with the ECFRS, should follow...