03 Oct Emergency response exercise held at Risø on 2/10-2024

Danish DecommissioningDTU and Roskilde Fire Department held emergency response exercise at Risø on 2/10-2024

Everyyear, Danish Decommissioning trains its emergency response in case of unintended incidents. These exercises provide important lessons learned and are good training to ensure the handling of incidents and/or accidents.

This year's scenario
This year, the emergency response exercise was planned in such a way that several consecutive accidents caused an emergency situation with both a nuclear accident scenario and several injured employees. In addition, Danish Decommissioning's internal emergency response team and Roskilde Fire Department had to deal with a roadblock caused by a tree and a building in danger of collapse.

Therefore, there was also a need for great cooperation between Danish Decommissioning and Roskilde Fire Department, and the emergency response exercise is a good way to train this cooperation.

Why we train
At Danish Decommissioning it's important to train scenarios where an emergency response needs to take effect, as it prepares us in case such a situation should arise.

The risk of such a scenario occurring is small, but as with the treatment of radioactive waste, safety is our biggest and first priority.

It's also good training in collaboration with DTU and, in the case of this year's exercise, in collaboration with Roskilde Fire Department.

At the end of the exercise, both the exercise and the participants' roles are evaluated, as well as the emergency response as a whole.

"It's important that we train accident situations every year and learn from them, and this year, as in previous years, many good and extremely relevant learning points have been found from all layers of the emergency response with us" - says Terese, who is the work environment coordinator and is involved in planning and evaluating the emergency response exercise.

Danish Decommissioning Response Team
At Danish Decommissioning there are employees on site every day and at all times of the day, among other things as part of the emergency response.
In addition, it is possible to call in several employees who are on duty with a fixed maximum driving time to Risø. Similarly, there are always designated people responsible for different areas of the emergency response, both during normal working hours but also outside normal working hours.

Images from the exercise