Therefore it is not necessarily the time when a fire, or a possible fire, is physically reported to the forest fire office, but more generally the time when a member of the forest fire protection organization is first alerted of a possible fire or when he directly firstly detects it.

A fire fighting system shall be appropriately installed in all livestock areas and fire equipment within the livestock areas shall comply with the most recent the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) standards regarding fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction.

This should involve the shut-down of reactors 1 and 2 of Chernobyl, and the subsequent closure of reactor 3 soon afterwards (Reactor 4 exploded in 1986, causing the worst nuclear accident in history; currently two are operating and the Ukrainian Parliament recently voted to re-open a third which has been closed since a fire in 1991). - To recommend that Ukraine be compensated by G7 funding to help finish the construction of three other reactors, bringing them up to full Western safety standards.

Each of the three accidents involved the release of a different principal radionuclide : - Kyshtym (an explosion in a nuclear waste store), strontium 90 ; - Windscale (a fire in a plutonium-producing reactor), iodine 131 ; - Chernobyl (an explosion in a power reactor), caesium 137.

This is being spent on the following work: Chernobyl A projet to train Chernobyl staff in fire protection and decontamination; Design studies for the construction of mobile installations for decontamination around the plant; A project to transfer Western know-how regardind reactor decommissioning; A study to explore the safest way of enclosing the damaged reactor unit; A decontamination project to clean up the 800-odd nuclear dumps situated within a 30 km radius of the Chernobyl site; A regional project supporting Ukranian, Russian and Belorussian communities suffering economic and social damage because of the Chernobyl fall-out.

The key areas of inspections, with respect to your question, were fire spread — so we looked at fire separations and spatial separations; fire detection, presence of smoke detectors and fire alarm systems; fire life safety, such as exit signs and emergency lighting; and fire suppression, fire extinguishers and fire sprinklers.