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International Civil Aviation Organization

Reassuring the air travelling public during the

emergency at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi

Nuclear Power PlantRaul Romero

Technical Officer, Meteorology Section

ICAO Headquarters, Montreal

International Experts Meeting on EnhancingTransparency and Communications Effectiveness inthe event of a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria


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Content

Critical response tasks

In-house response

Reassurance of confidence (measurestaken)

One voice process

Lessons learned

Future work

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Critical response tasks

Upon receivingnotification of the

release by IAEA on

11 March 2011,

concerned ICAOStates issued NEM,

NOTAM, SIGMET, &

SIGWX information

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In the context of the EPR-JPLAN 2010, ICAO is requiredto inform aircraft in flight about atmospheric releases

of radioactive materi

als


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In-house response

ICAO Asia-Pacific Regional Office(Bangkok)

Immediate response based

on direct contact with

Japanese Civil AviationBureau (JCAB)

ICAO Headquarters(Montreal)

Immediate response based

on coordination with APAC

Regional Office, Stateauthorities and partner

International Organizations


Both offices maintained watch throughout the period of the

General Emergency


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In-house response

Internal response activities principally related to:

Meteorology

Air Traffic Management

Flight Operations

Airworthiness

Dangerous Goods

Flight operations

Aviation Medicine Network already established for

pandemic planning very useful

Communications Office


Response

MET

ATM

OPSMED

COM


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In-house response

IAEA Incident andEmergency Centre

ICAO involved in all video-

teleconferences of the IEC

held 15 March to 7 July2011 in support of the

JPLAN

Ad-hoc TransportTask Force

Established and led by ICAO

Teleconferences held 17

March to 19 April 2011 Joint press releases of UN

organizations issued 18

March, 1 and 14 April 2011


Ad-hoc

Transport Task

Force regular

participants:


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Reassuring the air travelling public

Travelling public reassured by ICAO through:

Adequate critical response (urgent amendment of Technical

Regulations, ICAO Doc. 9284)

Strong coordination with regional office(s) involved

Follow-up and coordination between ICAO areas (ATM,

COM Office, MED, MET, OPS)

Coordinated response together with concerned States andInternational Organizations including JPLAN



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Reassuring the air travelling public

Communication with travelling public and users

Joint News (with previous common understanding)

Press releases

Use of appropriate language (to targeted audience)



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One voice communication process

Strong coordination between ICAOHQ and Regional Offices

Internal and externalcollaborative response wasessential Concerned States and

International Organizations,including those party to the JPLAN

ad-hoc Transport Task Force

Benefit ofone voice

communications Joint news/press releases

Reassurances to the travellingpublic



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Lessons learned

Need for improvement at ICAO level e.g. conferencing facilities, on-call emergency staff,

development of an ICAO Emergency Response Plan to deal withevents affecting air navigation (including radioactive events)

Improvement of SIGMET procedures and guidance

Need for improvement inter-agency Improve the availability of info on passenger and cargo screening

procedures

IAEA IEC Video/Teleconferences(up-to-date briefing, sharing ofinformation, relevance of info for decision makers, more focussed

briefings) More expeditious process of press releases(agreed upon procedure

with time scale e.g. max. 24 Hs.)

More frequent inter-agency exercises



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Future work

Improvement of procedures based onlessons learned(ICAO)

Maintenance of procedures updated

Frequent exercises



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Thank you

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