Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station Off Site Emergency Plan PDF Download

CELA echoes the submission of Greenpeace,13 in noting that until an open and public review of the offsite emergency plan has occurred, the CNSC does not have enough information before it to ensure the safety of the public in the event of a major radiation release. [...] As found by the US-based, National Research Council of the National Academies, the emergency management plans in Japan at the time of the Fukushima Daiichi accident "were inadequate to deal with the magnitude of the accident."14 It has come to CELA's attention that the province of New Brunswick "does not have its own planning basis or definition of type of release." Instead, the operator itself, N [...] Federal - Provincial Responsibility for Offsite Emergency Response The Memorandum of Understanding between the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization outlines that the NB EMO is the provincial body vested with jurisdiction respecting nuclear safety regulation, public safety, and the protection of the environment in the Province of New Brunswick.49 By v [...] With a crucial lack of engagement by the province in ensuring offsite emergency preparedness, CELA reminds the CNSC that it is its responsibility under the Nuclear Safety Control Act (NSCA) to assume responsibility for approving the sufficiency of the planning basis and emergency response in New Brunswick.58 As important as the role of the province is in developing general emergency plans and spec [...] Section 24(4)(b) of the NSCA requires the Commission in licensing assure itself that the licensee: will, in carrying on [the activity for which a license is sought], make adequate provision for the protection of the environment, the health and safety of persons and the maintenance of 53 National Academy of Science, supra note 9 at 232.