U.S. Department of Energy Consequence Management Under the National Response Framework
Description/Abstract
Under the Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex of the National Response Framework, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has specific responsibilities as a coordinating agency and for leading interagency response elements in the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC). Emergency response planning focuses on rapidly providing response elements in stages after being notified of a nuclear/radiological incident. The use of Home Teams during the field team deployment period and recent advances in collecting and transmitting data from the field directly to assessment assets has greatly improved incident assessment times for public protection decisions. The DOE’s Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) based in Las Vegas, Nevada, has successfully deployed technical and logistical support for this mission at national exercises such as Top Officials Exercise IV (TOPOFF IV). In a unique response situation, DOE will provide advance contingency support to NASA during the scheduled launch in the fall of 2009 of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The MSL rover will carry a radioisotope power system that generates electricity from the heat of plutonium’s radioactive decay. DOE assets and contingency planning will provide a pre-incident response posture for rapid early plume phase assessment in the highly unlikely launch anomaly.
| Creator/Author: | Don Van Etten and Paul Guss |
|---|---|
| Publication Date: | 2009 Feb 03 |
| OSTI Identifier: | OSTI ID: 947998 |
| Report Number(s): | DOE/NV/25946--609 |
| DOE Contract Number: | DE-AC52-06NA25946 |
| Other Number(s): | TRN: US200908%%28 |
| Resource Type: | Conference |
| Resource Relation: | Conference: Health Physics Society Mid-year Meeting; January 30-February 3, 2009; San Antonio, TX |
| Research Org: | National Security Technologies, LLC |
| Sponsoring Org: | USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NA) |
| Subject: | 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; DECAY; ELECTRICITY; MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; NASA; PLANNING; PLUMES; POWER SYSTEMS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; REMOTE SENSING |
| Related Subject: | consequence management, emergency response, FRMAC |
| Country of Publication: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Update Date: | 2009 May 18 |
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