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HUNTERSTON B NUCLEAR POWER STATION Off-Site Nuclear Emergency OFFICIAL SENSITIVE – FOR REGIONAL RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP USE ONLY HUNTERSTON B NUCLEAR POWER STATION Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station Off-site Contingency Plan Prepared by Ayrshire Civil Contingencies Team on behalf of North Ayrshire Council For the West of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership WAY – No. 01 (Rev. 3.0) (Issued September 2017) Plan valid to September 2019 OFFICIAL SENSITIVE OFFICIAL SENSITIVE – FOR REGIONAL RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP USE ONLY HUNTERSTON B NUCLEAR POWER STATION Site Incident/Off-site Nuclear Emergency Procedure Definition Definition A hazardous condition INCIDENT A hazardous condition which is confined in its which results, or is likely effect to within the to result, in the need to boundary of the site consider urgent Countermeasures to protect the public outside the site security fence from WHAT a radiological hazard TYPE? Site Incident Off Site Nuclear Emergency INITIATE INITIATE CASCADE CASCADE (Section 6.9) SITE (Section 6.10) CONTROL ROOM HUNTERSTON ECC (Section 8.1) ESTABLISH FCP ESTABLISH (Section 8.2) HSCC (Section 8.4) NO YES Does HSCC ESTABLISH need setting MBC up? (Section 8.6) Remain on duty Incident until standdown Phase Recovery Phase WAY – No. 01 (Rev. 3.0) (Issued September 2017) Plan valid to September 2019 2 OFFICIAL SENSITIVE OFFICIAL SENSITIVE – FOR REGIONAL RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP USE ONLY HUNTERSTON B NUCLEAR POWER STATION 1 Contents 1 Contents ............................................................................................................... 2 2 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Amendment Record............................................................................................... 7 2.2 Distribution List ...................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Exercise /Training Record ..................................................................................... 9 2.4 Foreword ............................................................................................................... 9 2.5 Glossary and Abbreviations ................................................................................. 10 3 Purpose of the Plan ........................................................................................... 14 3.1 Purpose ............................................................................................................... 14 4 Premises ............................................................................................................ 15 4.1 Hunterston “B” Nuclear Power Station................................................................. 15 5 Emergency Organisation .................................................................................. 16 5.1 Definition of Site Incident and Off-site Nuclear Emergency Site Incident ............ 16 5.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................ 16 5.3 Participating Organisations .................................................................................. 16 5.4 Response of the Emergency Organisation .......................................................... 16 5.5 Radiation Emergency Management Phases ....................................................... 18 6 Emergency Declarations, Notification and Response .................................... 19 6.1 Conditions for Taking Emergency Actions ........................................................... 19 6.2 Responsibility for Declaring or Standing Down an Emergency ............................ 19 6.3 Emergency Services and other Intervention Personnel ....................................... 19 6.4 Intervention Levels – Police Scotland .................................................................. 20 6.5 Intervention Levels – Scottish Fire and Rescue Service...................................... 20 6.6 Intervention Levels – Scottish Ambulance Service .............................................. 20 6.7 Table ‘A’ Site Incident .......................................................................................... 21 6.8 Table ‘B’ Off - Site Nuclear Emergency ............................................................... 22 6.9 Emergency Notification – Site Incident ................................................................ 23 6.10 Emergency Notification – Off-Site Nuclear Emergency ....................................... 24 6.11 Emergency Notification – Information Provided ................................................... 25 7 Public Information ............................................................................................. 26 7.1 Information to be Provided .................................................................................. 26 7.2 Prior Information to Local Residents.................................................................... 26 7.3 Information to the public in the event of a radiation emergency .......................... 26 8 Key Locations / Information ............................................................................. 29 8.1 Hunterston Emergency Control Centre................................................................ 29 8.2 Rendezvous Point / Forward Control Post ........................................................... 29 8.3 Media Liaison Point ............................................................................................. 29 8.4 Hunterston Strategic Coordination Centre - Off-site (HSCC) ............................... 29 8.5 North Ayrshire Emergency Control Centre .......................................................... 30 8.6 Media Briefing Centre .......................................................................................... 30 8.7 Receiving Hospitals ............................................................................................. 30 8.8 Rest Centre(s) ..................................................................................................... 31 8.9 Radiation Monitoring Units (RMU) ....................................................................... 31 8.10 Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGoRR) ............................................... 31 8.11 Traffic Control Points ........................................................................................... 32 8.12 Diversions ............................................................................................................ 32 8.13 Prevailing Wind Direction .................................................................................... 32 WAY – No. 01 (Rev. 3.0) (Issued September 2017) Plan valid to September 2019 3 OFFICIAL SENSITIVE OFFICIAL SENSITIVE – FOR REGIONAL RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP USE ONLY HUNTERSTON B NUCLEAR POWER STATION 8.14 Air Traffic ............................................................................................................. 32 8.15 Rail Traffic ........................................................................................................... 32 9 Coordination Arrangements of Response and Recovery .............................. 33 9.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 33 9.2 HSCC User Guide ............................................................................................... 33 9.3 Roles / Membership Of Decision Making And Advisory Groups .......................... 34 9.4 Strategic Coordinating Group (SCG) ................................................................... 35 9.5 Tactical Group ..................................................................................................... 36 9.6 Scientific And Technical Advice Cell (STAC) ....................................................... 37 9.7 Recovery Working Group (RWG) ........................................................................ 39 9.8 Strategic Media Advice Cell (SMAC) ................................................................... 40 9.9.1 Strategic Coordinating Group Initial Agenda ....................................................... 43 9.9.2 Strategic Coordinating Group Agenda (subsequent meetings) ........................... 45 9.10.1 Tactical Coordinating Group Model Agenda ........................................................ 47 9.10.2 Tactical Coordinating Group Model Agenda (Subsequent Meetings Agenda) ..... 49 9.11 Scientific and Technical Advice Cell Model Agendas (Initial and Subsequent) ... 51 9.12 Strategic Media Advisory Cell Model Agenda ...................................................... 57 9.13 Recovery Working Group Model Agenda ............................................................ 59 9.14 Recovery Phase Handover Criteria ..................................................................... 61 9.15 Suggested Handover Certificate .......................................................................... 62 10 Detailed Emergency Planning Zone Arrangements ....................................... 63 10.1 The Detailed Emergency Planning Zone ............................................................. 63 10.2 Criteria for the Introduction of Countermeasures During the Acute / Response Phase of an emergency ....................................................................................... 63 10.3 Acute / Response Phase Countermeasures, Radiological Hazard ...................... 63 10.4 Acute / Response Countermeasures Implementation
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