This drill will determine whether the station has adequate emergency planning and whether Eskom can effectively respond to nuclear accidents and radiological emergencies.
Fears mount about non-compliance at Koeberg Nuclear Station as regulator conducts emergency drill exercise today
According to KAA, previous drills have resulted in numerous non-compliances. According to Koeberg’s licence conditions, the nuclear power station is non-compliant.The NNR recently granted unit 1 a twenty-year extension beyond its design lifetime, but only on the condition of a successful emergency drill.,” the SAFCEI Director, Francesca de Gasparis said.
“The NNR needs to share publicly the results from this drill and what will be done to ensure safety for everyone who could be affected. Petersen noted that some of the issues that Eskom has failed to address include not having access to the correct equipment to wash radioactive material off people who had been contaminated with radioactive dust and to contain the resultant radioactive wastewater.’ was allowed to simply run into the stormwater drains, and from there into the rivers and eventually the sea,” she added.
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