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As a result of the interest shown by many countries in the area of nuclear emergency planning and preparedness, particularly after the accidents at Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl (1986), NEA activities in this area intensified during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989, the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) sponsored a workshop on the technical aspects of emergerncy planning in the case of nuclear accidents. A follow-up workshop on technical aspects of emergency planning in case of nuclear accidents. As a result of this and other work, the international and transborder aspects of large-scale nuclear accidents, and particularly the criteria and techniques for emergency exercises, were identified as areas which could benefit from further development in NEA Member countries. To accomplish this development, the NEA organised and staged, during the spring of 1993, the first NEA International Off-site Emergency Exercise, INEX 1.
