Kansas City, Mo. –The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region VII office announced today there will be a routine biennial exercise conducted with Omaha Public Power District for the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in Nebraska on Aug. 4, 2015, followed by a public meeting.
Exercise participants will include: the states of Nebraska and Iowa; Washington County in Nebraska; Pottawattamie and Harrison counties in Iowa; and the Omaha Public Power District.
The routine exercise will test the abilities of the states of Nebraska and Iowa, the utility and the participating counties to protect the health and safety of the public living and working in the vicinity of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station.
The exercise is a biennial requirement to determine the adequacy of the state and local radiological emergency preparedness and response plans. It will require the activation of emergency facilities by the participating state and local officials. The activities of the state, county and local units of government will be observed and evaluated by the FEMA Region VII Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program. Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station on-site performance will be observed and evaluated by officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
On Thursday, August 6, 2015, a public meeting will be held to describe and explain the full-scale response exercise process. Since the process of evaluating the full-scale response exercise will take months, the preliminary findings and meeting discussion will be very limited in scope.
Members of the public and the media are invited to attend the meeting, starting at 11 a.m. (CDT) in the Fort Calhoun Volunteer Fire Station, located at 600 N. 14th Street, Fort Calhoun, Neb.
Representatives from FEMA Region VII will chair the meeting and explain the exercise process. A representative from the NRC Region IV office, located in Arlington, Texas, will discuss activities conducted on-site at the power plant during the exercise. http://www.fema.gov/news-release/2015/07/30/fort-calhoun-nuclear-station-exercise-process-be-discussed-public-meeting
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