The International Atomic Energy Agency in cooperation with the US Department of Energy, the MVM Paks Nuclear Power Plant Ltd. and the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority organised a national workshop in Paks, Hungary, between 8-11th October, about the organisation and execution of the performance-based nuclear security exercises, called Force on Force exercises (simulating combat).
The IAEA’s instructors
presented the rules and techniques how to plan, execute and evaluate a
Force on Force exercise. They also informed the participants about methods
and relevant technological solutions to simulate and evaluate combat between
the member of the response forces and the adversaries.
In the practical part of
the training participants in smaller groups had to work out an exercise
scenario involving an adversary attack against a hypothetical nuclear power
plant, and then prepare a controller event log for that specific scenario.
At the end of the sessions the groups presented the solutions they had
developed.
On the closing day the participants evaluated the workshop: they agreed that they could use the presented methods in future exercises, even for non-Force on Force ones. The HAEA's goal is to execute the first performance-based nuclear security exercise at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in the coming years.