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In case of an accident concerning a nuclear installation, two intervention phases are distinguished: an emergency phase which calls for a rapid and organized response through intervention plans, and a post-accidental phase in which postponed actions are carried out on medium and/or long-term so that the situation comes back to a state judged as acceptable by stakeholders. The PRIME project has developed a decision aiding tool for risk managers involved in an industrial accident involving radioactive substances, through the evaluation of radio-ecological sensitivity of a territory in a post-accidental phase. The proposed decision aiding tool is grounded on the integration of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) and a Geographical Information System (GIS). The proposed methodology relies on the concept of decision map which corresponds to a planar subdivision of the territory in which each subdivision is evaluated on the basis of several criterion maps. This results in a set of disjoint spatial units evaluated on an ordinal scale using the ELECTRE TRI method. Hence, the result is a decision map representing the radio-ecological sensitivity of the territory; such maps prove to be very useful for stakeholders to design relevant post-accidental strategies.
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CRIRAD participates in GT PRIME’s work as a consultant in order to express its vision of the contaminated areas and what needs to be protected. However CRIRAD’s participation does not include approving the methodological software that implements the results of this consultation.
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Mercat-Rommens, C., Chakhar, S., Chojnacki, E., Mousseau, V. (2015). Coupling GIS and Multi-Criteria Modeling to Support Post-Accident Nuclear Risk Evaluation. In: Bisdorff, R., Dias, L., Meyer, P., Mousseau, V., Pirlot, M. (eds) Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46816-6_13
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