"Uh
oh. Remember FEMA's NYC drill on September 11, 2001? This time the
FEMA drill is at Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in "Live Free or
Die" New Hampshire!"
----Cynthia
McKinney
FEMA
to Perform 'Full-Scale Exercise' at Nuclear Power Plant
Next week’s
training will analyze response to a radiological release at the
Seabrook Station; NH, Mass. emergency officials participating
1
April, 2016
SEABROOK,
NH - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct a
“full-scale” training exercise at the NextEra Energy Seabrook
Station Nuclear Power Plant located in Seabrook on April 8, 2016. The
exercise if being organized by FEMA, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, and state and local emergency management officials
“This
exercise allows federal teams to examine the ability of the
participating local, state and utility officials to protect the
health and safety of the public living near the Seabrook Nuclear
Power Plant in the event of a radiological release,” according to
Bruce Brodoff of the FEMA. “FEMA will observe and evaluate
governmental responses. The NRC will observe and evaluate the on-site
performance of Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant staff.”
Officials
from communities in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts, within a
10-mile radius of the plant, are being requested to activate their
emergency operations centers during the exercise, according to a
press statement.
The
organizations will hold a public briefing at 11 a.m. on April 8, at
the end of the exercise, at the Courtyard Marriot’s Seacoast
Ballroom in Portsmouth. Written comments and questions can be
submitted from the public at that time or after the meeting,
according to officials.
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