CANUS Joint Radiological Emergency Response Plan (JRERP)
CANUS Joint Radiological Emergency Response Plan (JRERP) : "After the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania in 1979 and at Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986, Canada and the US recognized the need for cooperation in development of a response plan for radiological events. Consequently, the two countries developed a joint plan to deal effectively with a potential or actual peacetime radiological event that could affect both countries or be of a magnitude that would require assistance from the neighboring country. The CANUS JRERP is currently being rewritten to incorporate the Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada. The CANUS JRERP, is designed to do the following: (a) Alert the appropriate federal authorities within each country of the existence of a threat from a potential or actual radiological event. (b) Establish a framework of cooperative measures to reduce, to the extent possible, the threat posed to public health, safety, property, and the environment. (c) Facilitate coordination between the federal government in each country in providing support to provinces and states affected by a potential or actual radiological event". (JCS/DOD, CBRNE Consequence Management (JP 3-41), 2006, p. IV-16)
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