The regulator carried out 13 inspections of the plant final 12 months and the plant didn’t report any incidents. The plant is in its first dismantling part since 2023.
The undertaking supervisor of the plant assured that in 2023 the operation of the ability was inside regular limits.
The Nuclear Security Council (CSN) has participated within the assembly of the Native Info Committee of the Santa María de Garoña nuclear energy plant (Burgos) to current to the residents and the totally different entities within the space, essentially the most related features associated to security. nuclear and radiological safety of the ability in the course of the previous 12 months. The plant, shut down since 2012, is presently in its first part dismantling after the switch of its possession to Enresa.
This annual assembly, coordinated by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Problem (MITERD), has allowed greater than fifty attendees to study intimately in regards to the dismantling undertaking authorised by mentioned ministry in July 2023, in addition to the function of the regulator within the totally different phases of this course of. On this regard, the plant’s undertaking supervisor, Sofia Luque, recalled that the CSN supervises and controls the operation of the vegetation, each in operation and through dismantling. Luque has detailed the totally different mechanisms that the group has for this, highlighting the important work of the resident inspectors, answerable for finishing up each day monitoring on the plant itself.
Concerning these supervision and monitoring works, the undertaking supervisor defined that final 12 months 13 inspections had been carried out in Garoña and 6 findings had been categorized, all of which had been thought of of very low significance for security. Likewise, it has indicated that all through 2023 the plant didn’t report incidents and that, provided that the general operation was inside normality, it was not essential to require the adoption of any extra actions to these already established within the work plans and within the monitoring and supervision packages that the regulator carries out.
With regard to environmental radiological monitoring, the undertaking committee has ensured that the radiological high quality of the setting across the plant was throughout the vary of normal historic values. Likewise, he invited attendees to seek the advice of by way of the group’s web site, amongst different knowledge, these referring to the operational states of the nuclear energy vegetation working in Spain, in addition to the degrees of radioactivity within the environment in actual time.
Native info committees
The assembly, chaired by the deputy director basic of Nuclear Power of the MITERD, José Manuel Redondo, additionally allowed the mayor of the Tobalina Valley, Jesús Ángel López de Mendoza, to evaluation essentially the most important occasions that occurred within the municipality. Likewise, the director of the ability, Manuel Ondaro, has reported on the operation of the plant and the Normal Directorate of Civil Safety and Emergencies, by way of Carlos García Vegas, has offered the primary actions carried out by the establishment final 12 months and has reviewed the Exterior Emergency Plan of the Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Energy Plant (PENBU) to remind attendees what to do within the occasion of a nuclear emergency. The assembly was additionally attended by the subdelegate of the Authorities in Burgos, Pedro de la Fuente.
These committees, in accordance with the provisions of article 13 of the Regulation on Nuclear and Radioactive Services (RINR), have the target of informing the totally different entities represented in regards to the growth of regulated actions, in addition to collectively coping with points that come up from curiosity to all.
The CSN maintains its dedication to transparency and knowledge as basic instruments to strengthen the inhabitants’s confidence in nuclear safety. Via these kinds of conferences, the regulatory physique facilitates entry to truthful info of curiosity to residents, selling dialogue and social participation in issues of nuclear security and radiological safety.
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