IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

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Incident and Emergency Centre

IAEA Response to Maritime Accidents

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Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) Mission

Global focal point

for emergency preparedness and response

for nuclear and radiological safety or security

related emergencies, threats or events of

media interest

and

world’s centre for coordination of international

emergency preparedness and response

assistance

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Basis for IEC Activities

• IAEA Statute

• Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident

• Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency

• Decisions of IAEA policy making organs

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IAEA Roles and Responsibilities

1. Notification and official information exchange

• Through officially designated Contact Points

2. Assessment of potential emergency

consequences and prognosis of possible

emergency progression

3. Provision of public information

• Timely, clear, correct

and easily

understandable

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IAEA Roles and Responsibilities

4. Provision of assistance on request

• Provide/facilitate and coordinate

5. Coordination of inter-agency response

• Achieve synergy, speak with ‘one voice’

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IEComm

• Operations Manual for

Incident and Emergency

Communication

• To facilitate practical

implementation of the

conventions

• Non-binding document

• BoG and GC noted

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IEComm and Emergency Contact Points

• IEComm describes how States should communicate with the IEC and relevant actions

• Member States define Official Contact Points:

• National Competent Authority Domestic [NCA(D)]• For domestic emergencies

• National Competent Authority Abroad [NCA(A)]• For emergencies abroad

• National Warning Point [NWP]• 24/7 contact point

• Permanent Mission to the IAEA

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Response Structure

8

ON-CALL:

Emergency Response Manager

Logistics Support Officer

Radiation Safety Specialist

Nuclear Installation Safety Specialist

Nuclear Security Specialist

External Event Specialist

Public Information Officer

DDG-NS

Director General

IES Steering GroupPolicy matters and oversight

On-Duty SystemCall-out list

On-Call SystemInitial response to

incoming message

Warning PointSecurity Control

Centre of UNSSS

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System Modes:

Normal/Ready Mode

Basic Response Mode

Full Response Mode

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Early Notification Convention

Scope of Application

• Any accident involving from which a release

of radioactive material occurs or is likely to

occur and which has resulted or may result

in an international transboundary release

that could be of radiological safety

significance for another State.

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Early Notification Convention

Scope of Application

• Applies to:• any nuclear reactor wherever located;

• any nuclear fuel cycle facility;

• any radioactive waste management facility;

• the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes;

• the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and

• the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects.

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Response Obligations

• Forthwith notify transboundary emergency

• Promptly provide additional information

• Time, location and nature of event

• Facility or activity involved

• Cause, foreseeable development

• Characteristics of radioactive release

• Meteorological conditions

• Monitoring data

• Protective actions

• Predicted behavior of radioactive release

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Notification of a Maritime Accident

• Notification direct from NCA(D)

• Request for Information

• Media reports

• IEC contacts relevant accident State

• Authenticates and Verifies

• Notifies relevant States and International Organizations

• Provides public information

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Activation of IEC

• Duty Emergency Response Manager may

activate the IEC:

• Basic Response Mode

• Extended hours operations in IEC plus On-Call

• Full Response Mode

• 24/7 operations in IEC

• IAEA offers its good offices in case

assistance is requested

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Full Response Mode

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IAEA Role and Responsibility in Response

• Assessment of potential emergency

consequences and prognosis of possible

emergency progression introduced in the 2011

IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety

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Specific Tasks (1)

1. Develop a ‘reasonably’ bounding estimate of potential

accident progression and associated exposure pathways

• Based on information available, evidence, scientific knowledge

2. Evaluate relevant information to determine if public is safe

and will continue to be safe, and if not identification of

additional actions that should be considered

3. Evaluate relevant information to determine if workers and

emergency workers are safe and will continue to be safe

and, if not, to determine additional actions that should be

considered

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Specific Tasks (2)

4. Identify actions that should be considered to address

issues associated with international trade and interests

5. Assess protective and other response actions being

implemented, recommended or discussed

• Determine if they are doing more good than harm and, if not,

identify actions that should be considered by MS, international

organizations and Secretariat to address that situation

6. Actively alert Member States in which response actions

may need to be considered

7. On-going assessment and prognosis based on event

progression

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Request for Assistance

• Assistance Convention - Article 2, paragraph 1:

“If a State Party needs assistance in the event of a

nuclear accident or radiological emergency, whether

or not such accident or emergency originates within

its territory, jurisdiction or control, it may call for

such assistance”

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Response and Assistance Network

(RANET)

• RANET was established in 2000 • Operational tool to implement the Assistance

Convention

• Provision of international assistance upon request

• RANET is network of States • Capable and willing to provide assistance

upon request

• Appropriately trained, equipped and qualified personnel

• Respond quickly and effectively to emergencies

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Scope of RANET

• Nuclear accidents or radiological emergencies in

context of Emergency Conventions

• Other nuclear or radiological

incidents

• Radiological consequences that

exceed State’s response

capabilities

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How RANET is activated

• IEC operates 24/7 on-call system

• RFA made by CA or PM:• USIE, Fax, Telephone

• IEC assess and alerts Assistance (RANET) partners

• Develop plan• Deploy Assistance Mission

• Provide advice remotely

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IEC

Relevant

international

organizations

Assessment

Mission

National Warning

Point

National Assistance

Capabilities - NAC

Requesting

State

1

Request

assistance

1a

Deploy if

needed

1b

Assess situation

and needs

2

Alert of needs

3

Notify

4

Coordinate

5

Competent

Authority

4

Coordinate

Requested

Member States

Agreed NAC utilised or

deployed according to accepted

Assistance Action Plan

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RANET Functional Areas

• Source Search and Recovery (SSR)

• Radiation Survey (RS)

• Environmental Sampling and Analysis (ESA)

• Radiological Assessment and Advice (RAA)

• Decontamination (DE)

• Medical Support (MS)

• Dose Assessment (DA)

• Nuclear Installation Assessment and Advice (NAA)

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State Parties Registered in RANET

Currently:

28 State

Parties

FAT – Field

Assistance

Teams

EBS -External

based support

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Activation of Inter-Agency response

• Inter-Agency Committee on Radiological and

Nuclear Emergencies (IACRNE)

• 18 International Organizations

• Prime inter-agency coordination mechanism

• Achieve synergy, speak with ‘one voice’

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Ad-hoc Working Group on

Air and Maritime Transportation

• Airports Council International (ACI)*

• International Air Transport Association (IATA)*

• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

• International Labour Organization (ILO)*

• Task group under IACRNE

• Respond in a coordinated and harmonized manner to

an event having an actual or perceived impact on air

and/or maritime transportation

• Provide timely, coordinated and consistent information

to air and/or maritime travellers, and others whom may

be concerned

• International Maritime Organization (IMO)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

• World Nuclear Transport Institute (WNTI)*

• World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)*

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International EPR FrameworkProtocols and operational arrangements

ENATOM JPLAN

RANET

REPLIE Protocols

International

Org.States

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Conclusions

• International EPR Framework is prepared and can respond to transport accidents

• Reporting obligations specified in Early Notification Convention and EPR-IEComm 2012

• Assistance may be requested through RANET

• Established and utilized effectively mechanism

• EPR-RANET 2013 defines necessary NAC

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