IAEA’s Role in International · Emergency Preparedness and Response Elena Buglova Head, Incident and Emergency Centre . IAEA Based on •International legal instruments - Conventions

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20 years of radiation monitoring data

exchange in Europe

IAEA’s Role in International

Emergency Preparedness and

Response

Elena Buglova

Head, Incident and Emergency Centre

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Based on

• International legal

instruments - Conventions

• IAEA Statute

• Safety Standards

• Protocols

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Roles and Responsibilities: Preparedness

• Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) standards, guidance and tools

• EPR capacity building

• Emergency Preparedness Review (EPREV)

• IAEA’s in-house and inter-agency preparedness

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Safety Standards Requirements and Guides

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Operational Arrangements

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Capacity Building in EPR - 1

• Strategy: Train-the-Trainers approach

• National follow-up courses encouraged

• Standardized training materials

• Ensures compatibility of approaches

• New training tools • E-learning, portable digital tools

• Emphasis on practical aspects • Functionality, drills, exercises

• IAEA training materials in UN languages available

for Member States’ application

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Capacity Building in EPR - 2

• IAEA RANET Capacity Building Centre

(CBC) in Fukushima Prefecture

• 2013-2015: national and international

workshops on different EPR topics

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Providing Appraisal Services

• Emergency Preparedness Review (EPREV)

• To independently appraise national capabilities

in emergency preparedness and response

• Service since 1999

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EPRIMS EPR Information Management System

• Improve access to relevant EPR information during

an emergency • Used by IAEA Incident and Emergency System

• In line with Agency’s extended role on assessment and prognosis

• Promote information exchange on national EPR

arrangements in the preparedness stage

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https://iec.iaea.org/eprims/

Launched during GC59

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Epnet Emergency Preparedness Network

• Web-based network for emergency preparedness and response professionals to strengthen transparency and information exchange

• Six professional sub-networks: • Emergency Planners

• First Responders

• Radiation Specialists

• Medical Practitioners

• Dose Assessment Experts

• Public Information Officers

• https://gnssn.iaea.org/regnet/Pages/EPNet.aspx

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IRMIS International Radiation Monitoring Information System

• Emergency monitoring data sharing

• Share routine and emergency monitoring data

• Based on IAEA emergency information standard (IRIX)

• same standard used

in USIE

• Value, time,

area filters

• For mobile and fixed

monitoring stations

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Maintaining inter-agency EP

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Maintaining IAEA’s in-house EP

• Regular training and exercising of IAEA staff

based on annual training and exercise plan

• Continuously improving EPR in-house

arrangements

• Maintaining and enhancing response

infrastructure

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Roles and Responsibilities: Response

• Notification & official information exchange

• Provision of public information

• Assessment of potential emergency consequences and prognosis of possible emergency progression

• Provision of assistance on request

• Coordination of inter-agency response

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Response Structure

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DDG-NS

Director General

IES Steering Group Policy matters and oversight

On-Duty System Call-out list

On-Call System Initial response to

incoming message

Warning Point Security Control

Centre of UNSSS

IEC • Emergency Response Manager

• Logistics Support Officer

• Radiation Safety Specialist

• Nuclear Installation Safety Specialist

• Nuclear Security Specialist

• External Event Specialist

• Public Information Officer

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International Assistance

• Provision of assistance on request

• Provide/facilitate and coordinate

28 Member States registered

in RANET

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Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC)

global focal point

for emergency preparedness and response

for nuclear and radiological emergencies

irrespective of their cause, including

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International EPR Conference

Global Emergency

Preparedness and Response

• October 19-23, 2015

• In cooperation with CTBTO, EC,

EUROPOL, FAO, ICAO, ILO, IMO,

INTERPOL, OECD NEA, PAHO,

UNEP, WHO, WMO

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