03 Oct Emergency Exercise Held at Risø on October 2, 2024
Danish Decommissioning, DTU, and Roskilde Fire Department conducted an emergency preparedness exercise at Risø on October 2, 2024.
Every year, Danish Decommissioning trains its emergency preparedness in the event of unforeseen incidents. These exercises provide valuable experience and serve as excellent training to ensure the management of accidents and/or incidents.
This Year's Scenario
This year, the emergency preparedness exercise was designed to simulate an acute situation involving multiple consecutive incidents, including a nuclear accident scenario and several injured employees. Additionally, Danish Decommissioning's internal emergency response team and Roskilde Fire Department had to address a road blockage caused by a fallen tree and a building at risk of collapse.
Therefore, extensive cooperation between Danish Decommissioning and Roskilde Fire Department was required, and the emergency preparedness exercise provides an excellent opportunity to practice this collaboration.
Why We Train
At Danish Decommissioning, it is crucial to train for scenarios where an emergency response is required, as this prepares us should such a situation arise.
The risk of such a scenario occurring is low, but just as with the management of radioactive waste, safety is our highest and foremost priority.
Furthermore, it provides valuable training in collaboration with DTU and, in the case of this year's exercise, in cooperation with Roskilde Fire Department.
Upon completion of the exercise, both the exercise itself and the roles of the participants are evaluated, as well as the emergency preparedness as a whole.
“It is crucial that we annually train for accident scenarios and gain experience from them, and this year, as in previous years, many valuable and highly relevant learning points have been identified from all levels of our emergency preparedness,” says Terese, who is the work environment coordinator and involved in planning and evaluating the emergency preparedness exercise.
Danish Decommissioning's Emergency Preparedness
At Danish Decommissioning, personnel are present on site every day and at all times, partly as members of the emergency response team.
Furthermore, additional on-call staff can be summoned, with a defined maximum travel time to Risø. Similarly, individuals are always designated with responsibility for various aspects of emergency preparedness, both during regular working hours and outside of them.
Photos from the exercise
