{"id":365,"date":"2017-10-24T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katmal.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=365"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:42:43","slug":"the-first-three-years-of-katmal-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katmal.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/the-first-three-years-of-katmal-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Three Years of Katmal Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Logo\"Over the three years since I started to work independently I have had some interesting and challenging work and certainly had a good variety. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time on my computer at home revising, updating and restructuring existing documents for customers or writing new ones on a wide range of topics including the application of new technology to emergency response, reviewing and summarising regulation and guidance, proposing new strategies and proposing systems for classifying emergency structures, systems and components. I\u2019ve also done some mathematical modelling in support of ALARP cases for new facilities. The documents I\u2019ve helped to prepare have gone for internal information\/discussion, to regulators, to safety committees and to public web-sites.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve sat in client\u2019s basements extracting information from their IT. I\u2019ve worked in clients offices alongside their full time team consulting with their internal responders and writing and managing training exercises. I\u2019ve travelled the length of England and Scotland supporting and documenting workshops with local authorities, emergency responders, government departments and regulators. I\u2019ve attended meetings with regulators, helping customers move projects forward.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also spent a lot of time keeping up to date with developments around the world and maintaining a Facebook page<\/a> and a blog<\/a> about the things that interest me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve published a book aimed at telling members of the public a bit more than can be fitted into the REPPIR leaflets about what they might be asked to do to protect themselves during a nuclear accident (Shelter, evacuation, stable iodine and food restrictions) and why these work. This is available as a paperback<\/a> and as a Kindle file<\/a>. The trickle of sales (approaching 40!) is fun to watch but is not enough to keep my family in comfort. I\u2019ve been considering further books but have not had the discipline to complete a second one yet. I\u2019ve satisfied my ambition to publish a book if not my ambition to publish a bestselling and useful book.<\/p>\n

In UK nuclear emergency planning the big concern at the moment seems to me to be the forthcoming revision of REPPIR<\/a>. The EU BSSD<\/a> come out in 2013. The Consultation<\/a> came out a few weeks ago. The regulations are due next year. There are no signs of draft regulations. That timing does not bode well. The consultation document is unclear on many aspects of the new regulations. My developing thoughts on the Consultation are collected in a blog<\/a>. You are welcome to join the discussion there.<\/p>\n

If I were a local authority I would be concerned about the onus to determine the appropriate scope of the plan possibly being placed on my organisation albeit in consultation with others (paragraph 84).<\/p>\n

There is a lack of clarity about scoping emergency schemes particularly with regard severe accidents and its application to sites below the REPPIR threshold. Talk of assuming 100% release is surprising to say the least (Table 4).<\/p>\n

As a Health Physics professional I\u2019m surprised and disappointed that, even with the resources of a government department, the authors of the consultation cannot clearly articulate what a Constraint or Reference Level is nor give confidence that these terms will be correctly applied in the new regulation (see paragraph 45 for a poor explanation of a Reference Level).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to getting myself up to speed with the new regulations and will be available to help local authorities, operators, regulators and government departments understand and apply them.<\/p>\n

I hope that in the future I will continue to find varied projects to work on across the industry but the life of an independent contractor is a precarious one so this is far from certain. More work welcome, contact keith.pearce@katmal.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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