Recently, MEE/SCRO completed the evaluation of the 2018 on-site comprehensive nuclear accident emergency drill at Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Co., Ltd (DNMC).

With the massive wildfire occurring on the offsite area of Ling Ao Unit 1 as background, this exercise included a combination of such scenarios as terrorism attacks, emergency diesel engine failure, primary loop rupture, and environmental release of radioactivity. During the exercise, the newly-developed emergency command system and robot remote sensing and monitoring equipment were activated and tested by the operator. The local government has also dispatched the joint offsite personnel to participate in medical rescue and evacuation in this event in a synchronized way.

In line with the procedures of nuclear accident emergency exercise, MEE/SCRO organized the experts to review and determine the exercise goals in detail among the scenario options. During the exercise, the evaluators and reviewers were divided into 7 groups to participate in the evaluation comprehensively, focusing on emergency activation, command control, environmental monitoring, fire protection, radiation protection, rush repair, medical first aid and evacuation among others.

After the end of the exercise, the evaluation groups made the intensive communication and feedback on discovered problems available to the operators concerned from the perspectives of emergency command system, coordination and cooperation, standardization of files, availability of devices, and emergency response actions. Through the exercise, the aim was achieved in attempt to continuously improve the operators’ nuclear accident emergency response capability, emergency decision-making capability and coordinated disposition capability.