IAEA: International Exercise Builds Resilience for Emergency Preparedness


Resilient and agile response arrangements are an essential component of countries’ emergency response frameworks, as decisions made in the early stages of an emergency can be instrumental in saving lives.

On 3 October 2023, the IAEA together with 62 countries and international organizations came together to simulate a global response to a nuclear emergency and examine whether these arrangements are robust and fit for purpose in the event of a severe nuclear accident anywhere in the world. The exercise, code-named ConvEx-2c, was conducted in cooperation with authorities in Romania, who developed the scenario and acted as the ‘accident state.’

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Source: International Atomic Energy Agency