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Drills

Drills should be used to develop and maintain personnel skills, expertise, and response capability.

Drills should be of sufficient scope and frequency to ensure adequate response capability in applicable

areas. Drills should include emergency response activities such as notification, emergency

communication, fire, medical emergencies, hazardous material detection and monitoring,

environmental sampling and analyses, security, personnel, accountability, evacuation, emergency

categorization, decontamination, facility activation, public information, and health physics. There

should be at least one drill per year to train in notification and emergency communications with offsite

authorities.

Exercises

"Table Top"exercises should be conducted annually to test and demonstrate an integrated emergency

response capability.

A full participation exercise should be conducted bi-annually in accordance with established plans and

implementing procedures. A controller and evaluation group should be established for each exercise

to ensure that events occur which address the objectives of the exercise. A critique process should

be conducted for each exercise to provide accomplishments and shortcomings discovered during the

exercise;

Each member of the functional emergency response organization should participate in a "table top"

drill and/or exercise at least annually to demonstrate proficiency in assigned response duties.

TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Purpose

The purpose of this section is to establish the staffing, training, qualification, and certification (herein

called training and qualification) requirements for personnel at fusion facilities. It contains

requirements that must be included in training and qualification programs using a graded approach

based upon the hazards of the facility. The requirements are based on governmental and related

industry standards.

Supplemental Guidance

Appendix D provides a listing definitions used in this section of the document. It also provides a

listing of guidance documents that may be useful in developing the site specific training and

qualification programs.

Administrative Requirements

General Facility Requirements

The responsibilities and authority of individuals must be specific, and appropriate plans and

procedures must be developed and implemented to assure that the objectives of this program are met.

Each fusion facility should:

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