Emergency Exercise, Watt Committee

A visit to Hunterston was made on 11-12 May 1987 by Norman Worley and Glynne Lewis on behalf of the Watt Committee Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications. The attendance at the emergency exercise on 12 May was by the kind permission of the South of Scotland Electricity Board. 

To become familiar with the plant and the postulated accident details in advance of the exercise, a visit was made to the plant the day before (11 May), and the two Watt Committee representatives were escorted around the A Station by one of the Assistant Shift Charge Engineers. Included in the tour were the Central Control Room, the Turbine Hall, the Reactor Building and the Emergency and Health Physics Control Rooms. 

Information on the extent to which the emergency plan would be involved had already been given to the two Watt Committee representatives. The exercise commenced at 0900 hours. 

Tests and emergency exercises are carried out regularly at all nuclear stations throughout the United Kingdom. The Watt Committee on Energy attended the exercise at Hunterston in order to see how such operations are conducted. 

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