Held at the prestigious British Airways’ Waterside building the workshop was well received by attendees and an informative interactive day was had by all. With specialist briefings from Matt Tuck (Managing Director – Matom Ltd), Malcolm Baker (Ex – Head of Organizational, Business and Operational Risk Management at Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command), Andy May(Director Risk and Resilience, Total Security Management – Mitie) and Russell Price (Chairman – Continuity Forum), the workshops provided specialist support and hard to find information dealing with CBR and Special risks.

Following the success of the workshop, several organisations have sought Matom to provide bespoke 1/2 and 1 day workshops to train and educate Business Continuity/Risk Managers within their organisation. If you would like more information regarding these workshops please contact Mark Musgrave on +44(0)7786 627126 or mark@matom.com

The BBC reports that the Scottish Parliament has extended emergency restrictions preventing fishing in the Dalgety Bay area. The  ban prevents the gathering of seafood and bait in the area where there are concerns about radioactive contamination.

The radiation is believed to originate from WW2 aircraft instruments which were painted using radium which was used to allow pilots to see the dials in low light. The government said the ban has been extended until the area had been given the all clear.

Radiation was originally discovered at by accident 20 years ago and since then in excess of 2,000 radioactive objects and particles have been removed from a section of the beach.

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) believes the waste has come from MoD activities because radium luminised dials, with numbers on the back, can be traced back to MoD aircraft.

Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, this committee is responsible for being the focal point for the development of standards for societal security in the UK and to monitor and mirror the work of ISO TC 223 – Societal Security, and CEN/BT WG 161- Protection and Security of the Citizen, and other appropriate relevant national and international bodies.

Mr Tuck has 23 years experience in radiological protection in the nuclear industry and hazmat fields. He has been involved in operations, technical support, consultancy, and management for a number of international companies before joining Matom as Managing Director.

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Washington and European governments have pursued talks on the planned site with Kazakhstan in an effort to provide incipient state atomic power programs with a reliable alternative to establishing their own nuclear fuel production capabilities. The planned facility would open with a 60-ton low-enriched uranium capacity.

Uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing can generate power plant fuel as well as nuclear-bomb ingredients.

The time line for the facility’s opening is not “set in stone,” but related talks with the Kazakh government are moving forward, an IAEA insider said.

The Vienna, Austria-based organization and other entities have committed $150 million toward the site’s establishment (Jay Solomon, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 7).

Courtesy of  GSN

National Disaster Management Authority Vice President M. Shashidhar Reddy said a training facility is to be set up in Nagpur and property has also been set aside in each Indian state for the construction of CBRN disaster response schools.

States are to be assigned to create their own crisis responder teams, which would be made ready to deal with the aftermath of a WMD attack, he said. Additionally, every atomic energy reactor in India is to have an emergency response team located in the vicinity in case of an accident.

“Already four battalions of the central paramilitary forces, drawn into the disaster response forces have been trained. The states shall draw from the state armed reserve forces,” Reddy said. “These forces, however, will be solely kept for handling disasters and not be pressed into [other] duties.”

The NDMA vice president said a drill would be carried out that would permit the CBRN response teams to practice maneuvers in a particular geography. “This way, they can act swiftly in times of need,” Reddy said.

Courtesy of GSN

Lord Marland of Odstock, parliamentary under-secretary of state for energy and climate change, signed the orders revoking the nuclear designation of 46 hectares of land at the sites, allowing that land to be either sold or leased out. Each plot of land had already been released from the conditions of its nuclear licence.

Half of the original Oldbury site has now been released. In June 2011, following extensive grounds and building testing carried out by Magnox, 35 hectares of the site were delicensed by the UK Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and the land declared to be in a condition fit for any kind of re-use because it contains no radiation hazard. This land includes a popular nature trail and a historic visitor centre.

Part of this delicensed land will be used by Horizon Nuclear Power – the RWE and EOn joint venture – which plans to build a new nuclear power plant at the site. Earlier this week, Horizon announced that it had completed the purchase of land at Oldbury. The 36 hectares remaining under license contain the site’s operational plant, including the two 217 MWe Magnox reactors and essential plant infrastructure.

Courtesy of WNN

A safe containing radioactive material at the Dabaa nuclear power plant was seized while another safe containing radioactive material was broken open and part of its contents taken, the newspaper said.

On the 26th January 2012 the workshop will be held at the prestigious British Airways headquarters at Heathrow Airport. Aimed at corporate Business Continuity Managers, Building Managers, Security Managers, Facility Managers and Corporate Risk Managers, the workshop covers the prime aspects of counter-terrorism.

With specialist advice from Matom, the Continuity Forum and other specialist partners, this interactive workshop is the first of its type and promises to be educational and informative.

Availability of spaces is limited, and it is already proving to be very popular with professionals.

To register your interest, or for further information, please contact Mark Musgrave at Matom or Sara McKenna at the Continuity Forum.

TEPCO has already decided to decommission the Nos. 1-4 reactors at the Fukushima Dai ichi.

At a press conference Wednesday morning, Junichi Matsumoto, acting head of TEPCO’s headquarters regarding nuclear plant locations, said the firm would hold consultations with local residents on how the firm would respond if Fukushima Prefecture asks TEPCO to decommission the reactors.