Coronavirus / IAEA Steps Up Pandemic Support By Gathering Feedback On Staffing Levels At Nuclear Plants

New online network includes ways to limit pandemic’s spread
IAEA Steps Up Pandemic Support By Gathering Feedback On Staffing Levels At Nuclear Plants
Operators need to ensure that enough personnel are available to keep power plants online through the pandemic. Photo courtesy IAEA/Dean Calma.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is gathering feedback from operating countries about how they are ensuring that enough personnel are available to keep power plants operating through the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Vienna-based agency said on 8 April that to help operators and regulators learn from each other’s experience, it is gathering information through the International Reporting System for Operating Experience (IRS) and the newly established Covid-19 Operational Experience Network.

The Covid-19 Operational Experience Network is a pilot peer-to-peer network designed to serve as a repository for planned or implemented response actions during the crisis.

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