Communications Issues Following Radiation Emergency Jackson

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March 23, 2011


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Outline: Planning Guidance andInfrastructure Effects

Planning Guidance DHS Planning Guidance (1 August 2008)

Planning Guidance for Response to aNuclear Detonation, 2nd Edition (June 2010)

Infrastructure Effects Cascading Effects impacting

Communications

Continuity Policy

Bridging the Gaps: Public Health and Radiation Emergency PreparednessPlanning Guidance and Infrastructure Effects 2


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PLANNING GUIDANCEFOR RESPONSE TONUCLEAR DETONATIONS


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http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-17694.pdf


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DHS Planning Guidance



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DHS Planning Guidance



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Express consideration of:

Shelter and Evacuation

Medical Care

Population Monitoring &Decontamination

Public Preparedness Emergency PublicInformation

Planning Guidance for Responseto a Nuclear Detonation


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Zoned Approach


Light Damage (LD) Zone:Windows broken, mostly minor

injuries that are highly survivableeven without immediate medicalcare.

Moderate Damage (MD) Zone:Significant building damage and

rubble, downed utility poles,overturned automobiles, fires,many serious injuries. Earlymedical assistance cansignificantly improve number ofsurvivors.

Severe Damage Zone: Mostbuildings destroyed, hazards andradiation initially prevents entryinto the area, low survivorlikelihood


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Key Points to Zoned Approach

1. Save lives AND manage risks to responders.

2. Plan response from the outside in.

3. Train responders in basic radiation safety & measurement.

4. Focus early lifesaving actions in the moderate damage (MD)zone.

5. Within LD zone, initially focus on severe injuries only.

6. Within MD zone, response operations have many hazards.

7. Early medical response activities should focus on medicaltriage with full consideration of radiation dose minimization.

8. Response within the severe damage SD zone should not beattempted until radiation dose rates have dropped.

9. Response activities should be guided by lethal radiationhazards within the DF zone.

10. The most important mission in the DF zone is communicatingprotective action orders to the public..



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Key points to Zoned Approach(cont)

11. Urban search and rescue will be most effective in the MD

zone, in non-radiologically contaminated areas.

12. Decontamination efforts should be limited to those locationsthat are absolutely necessary to use or occupy to enable lifesaving, including emergency infrastructure and infrastructurethat might facilitate life saving (e.g., emergency gas line

shutdown).13. Decontamination of critical infrastructure should be initiated

only when basic information becomes available regardingfallout distribution, current and projected radiation dose rates,and structural integrity of the elements to be decontaminated.

14. Standard health physics instruments and alternative radiation

detection systems can be used to enhance detectioncapabilities.

15. All radiation detection systems should be used within theirfunctional limits and design specifications.



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Dangerous Fallout


Dangerous Fallout is delimitedby a 10R/h line.

Descends within 24 hours.

Footprint is generally definedwithin one to two hours

Varies by yield, winds, weather,detonation altitude/depth.

The 7-10 Rule: For everysevenfold increase in time, thereis a tenfold decrease in radiation

rate

Note the relatively rapid retreatof the 10 R/h line over time.


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The Radiation TReatment, TRansport,and TRiage (RTR) Concept



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INFRASTRUCTUREEFFECTS


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Infrastructure Effects

Direct Physical Effects Blast

Thermal

EMP

Combined Effects

Cascading Effects

Human Effects



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Critical Infrastructure of ImmediateConcern in Response Operations



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Synergy with Continuity Policies

Continuity of Operations Capabilities Support for National Essential Function 6

Special Roles of Water, Power, andCommunications Sectors

Healthcare and Public Health Emergency Services

Relationship to National ResponseEmergency Support Functions

ESF 2 Communications

ESF 3 Engineering and Public Works

ESF 10 Energy

ESF 14 Long Term Community RecoveryBridging the Gaps: Public Health and Radiation Emergency PreparednessPlanning Guidance and Infrastructure Effects 16

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