China's first state-level nuclear emergency rescue team set up
(cnnc.com.cn) | Updated: 2016-05-26
2016-05-26 (cnnc.com.cn) 
The national nuclear emergency coordination committee announced the establishment of China’s first state-level nuclear emergency rescue team on May 24.
The team consists of 320 people in 6 groups: coordination and technical support, emergency rescue, project rescue, radiation monitoring and protection, decontamination, and medical rescue. They will receive training in accident scenario simulation, operating skills and theory. The team will work on domestic major nuclear accident emergency rescue and can also assist internationally.
- China Institute of Atomic Energy
- Nuclear Power Institute of China
- Southwestern Institute of Physics
- China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corporation, Ltd.
- China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd.
- China Institute for Radiation Protection
- Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology (BRIUG)
- China Institute of Nuclear Industry Strategy (CINIS)
- China Nuclear Mining Science and Technology Corporation
