First base for US emergency response

23 May 2014

The first of America's regional response centres is now in operation, ready to supply equipment to any of the country's nuclear power plants facing an emergency situation.
The base at Tolleson on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, houses five complete sets of portable backup equipment - pumps, generators, hoses and floodlights. These have standardized connections so that they can be used at any of the country's 100 nuclear power reactors to supplement the plant's own safety equipment to help maintain the safety of reactor systems and used fuel pools. Equipment will be kept ready for use anywhere in the country within 24 hours.
Coming in addition to each nuclear power plant's normal systems and the spares kept at each site, the extra kit at the Phoenix centre represents an "extra layer of public protection," said US nuclear industry body the Nuclear Energy Institute. They should "help facilities respond safely to extreme events no matter what causes them."

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