New Delhi: The Navy is setting up a Nuclear,
Biological and Chemical (NBC) defence training facility to
develop the skills of its personnel in fighting such deadly
attacks during conventional war or by terror groups.
The Navy has issued a Request for Information (RFI) ahead
of issuing a global tender for setting up of the shore-based
facility with simulators modelled on ships for creating
near-real scenarios for training the personnel.
"The Indian Navy intends to set up a Nuclear
(Radiological), Biological and Chemical Defence training
facility to train its personnel. The facility is intended to
be shore based," the RFI documents said.
The simulator would be built on a steel structure
resembling a ship, outfitted with systems and equipment for
training personnel in achieving collective NBC protection
through 'closing down', pre-wetting systems and platform
decontamination.
"The facility would make training as realistic as
possible on a four-deck ship-based structure, which would be
the NBC simulator," Navy officers said here.
The training exercise to be simulated would include
detection of NBC agents to decontamination of the same.
"Radio active sources would be placed randomly on the
upper decks, including Bridge Top, for detection of
'hot-spots' by the trainees," they said.
The NBC simulator would be housed in an enclosed
structure within which a building consisting of two floors
will house a Nuclear Training Lab and a Biological and
Chemical Lab, class rooms and offices.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:39