The Moroccan Agency for Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security (AMSSNuR) took part in the ConvEx-2b exercise, initiated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Within the framework of the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident and the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, AMSSNuR participated, in close cooperation with the relevant ministerial departments, in the ConvEx-2b exercise initiated by the IAEA, which took place from March 9 to 11, 2021, AMSSNuR said in a statement.
This exercise is at the second level of complexity of the exercises organized by the IAEA with the specific objective of testing the international arrangements for the provision of assistance in the event of a nuclear or radiological emergency.
Thus, on the first day of the exercise, the IAEA Incident and Emergency Centre received requests for assistance by Member States participating in the exercise, while on the second day, the IAEA published the notification of a hypothetical transport accident involving industrial radioactive gauges that occurred at Mihajlo Pont Pupin on the Danube in Belgrade.
During this exercise, four people were injured, overexposed and contaminated. The IAEA then sent a request for assistance to Morocco formulated by Serbia for medical assistance and dose reconstitution of the injured.
Morocco responded favorably to this request to provide assistance in the radiological assessment of the injured overexposed and contaminated during the accident by making available a team of four experts in radiation safety and radiation protection to provide remote advice as part of an assistance action plan established in close collaboration with Serbia and the IAEA.
The last day focused on the review and approval of the detailed action plan of the assistance offer by the stakeholders.
This exercise was an opportunity to exercise national alert and preparedness arrangements for national assistance capabilities, thus ensuring an effective response in the event of an emergency, and to eventually obtain registration of national capabilities in the IAEA’s response and assistance network, the statement concluded.
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