Capacitação de médicos da Marinha do Brasil para resposta a acidentes nucleares e radiológicos

Abstract

To ensure National Security, the National Defense Strategy advocates the deterrence, resulting from the ability to fight, and considers the nuclear sector as of strategic importance. For this reason, Brazil must control the nuclear fuel cycle for peaceful purposes, as well as being able to design and build conventional and nuclear - powered submarines. Brazilian Navy, through the Navy Nuclear Program and the Prog ram of Development of Submarines, has been reaching these objectives in the facilities of the Navy Technological Center in São Paulo and in Itaguaí, RJ, which is being built a Shipyard and Naval Base. The subsystem of operative medicine, as an integral par t of biological, chemical and radiological nuclear defense system, may be called to act in the planning and response to nuclear and radiological accidents at these facilities. For such a response occurs in an appropriate manner, it is necessary that all co mponents of this system are fully trained. This study performed the analysis of radiological and nuclear accidents, their causes, their biological effects and dynamics of medical response; the structure of the systems involved in this response, in addition to teaching law correlated to the subject and the measures instituted by the Brazilian Navy in order to meet this qualification. From this analysis, it presented a proposal to complement the training of physicians to act effectively in response to nuclear and radiological emergencies.