IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
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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