Emergency control centre

Provision of an adequately equipped emergency control centre of suitable design located outside potential danger zones. 

The ECR is normally located away from the reactor buildings, but is in communication with all the station emergency control centres and emergency teams by direct telephone or radio. Specialist advice is available on reactor and plant conditions, plant damage repair procedures, chemistry and health physics control. 

Emergency control centre with adequate equipment and information aids. 

The SMC has overall responsibility for directing operations from the on-site emergency control centre (ECC). 

Setting up of Major Emergency Control Centre (MECC) ... 

The existing emergency response plans require technical support centre (Emergency Control Centre) to be established with expertise technically qualified locally available at the station. No special on-line display is provided. 

The on-site provision of a Main Control Room and an Operational Support Centre is consistent with current UK practice in which the Central Control Room is the location of the first control centre to be set up in an emergency. Each UK nuclear power station has a purpose built on-site Emergency Control Centre from which an emergency is managed. 

The Emergency Control Centre combines many of the functions provided for in the APIOOO by Technical and Operational Support Centres. Hence, in the UK context, the provision/use of a Technical Support Centre will be considered on a site specific basis. 

The fifth and final level of defence is aimed at mitigation of the radiological consequences of potential releases of radioactive material that may result from accident conditions. This requires the provision of an adequately equipped emergency control centre and plans for the on-site and off-site emergency response. 

Operator interfaces to the plant are primarily located in the main control room, technical support centre, supplementary control rooms and emergency control centre. These facilities contain safety related displays, safety related controls, accident monitoring systems, alarm annunciators and historical data systems. Guidance on the design of these facilities and systems is provided in this section. 

The Requirements for Design require (Ref. [1], para. 6.87) that an on-site emergency control centre, separated from the plant control room, be provided to serve as a meeting place for the emergency staff who will operate from there in the event of... 

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