2nd International Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotic and Remote Systems

Lu, Po-Yung; Thomas, Richard D.; Wassom, John S.

Title: 2nd International Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotic and Remote Systems

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It is desirable for the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration emergency preparedness and response community to have available every resource to enhance its capabilities for assessing the health effects of environmental agents. Such resources will aid DOE/NNSA in achieving its goal of protecting the health and safety of workers, the public, and environment in event of the release of radiological, chemical, or biological agents into the environment. Studies are reported in this paper where composite data analyses were done for the chemicals included in DOE's Protective Action Criteria (PACs) database. PACs define the concentration of airborne chemicals at which protective actions are required. They are used by DOE/NNSA in developing Emergency Preparedness Procedures and for Operational Emergencies. Data analyses were conducted to discern structure-activity relationship patterns among PAC chemicals by assigned classification schemes based on the 30 accepted categories used by the EPA Gene-Tox Program. PAC chemicals were scored according to their frequency of distribution, severity of toxicity index, and structural classification. These studies yielded results that could be helpful in assessing the toxicity of new chemicals. It is suggested that provisions be made to include chemical structural information in the PAC database.

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Lu, Po-Yung ^[1]; Thomas, Richard D. ^[2]; Wassom, John S. ^[3]

ORNL
Intercet, Ltd.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Retired)

Publication Date:: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 969005

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Emergency Management & Robotics for Hazardous Environments, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 20080309, 20080312

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; EMERGENCY PLANS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXICITY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; Emergency management; toxic substances; chemical classification schemes

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