18 May (NucNet): Bruce Power, the operator of the Bruce B nuclear station in Canada, should include “without cause” alcohol and drug tests in its fitness for duty programme, an International Atomic Energy Agency Operational Safety Review Team (Osart) said.
In a report made public by Bruce Power, Osart said the station should improve measures to ensure that maintenance workers are complying with plant standards for “procedure adherence”.
Osart said Bruce Power should provide additional protection for onsite personnel in an emergency situation by implementing additional automated systems.
The report notes that as part of the plant’s Fukushima-Daiichi response programme, a proven strategy for rapid deployment of plant emergency mitigating equipment has been developed, which allows equipment to be installed onsite within one hour of a request being made.
Bruce B has four commercially operational Candu 750B reactor units. There are also four units at Bruce A, on the same site.
The Osart report is online: http://bit.ly/1R88KLi
