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Meeting Announcement
Presents:
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Brooke Buddemeier, CHP
Global Security Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Presentation Topic:
Recent Research to Improve Response Planning for the Aftermath of a Nuclear Detonation
Location:
The
Barking Dog Restaurant
4723 Elm Street
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-654-0022
The Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Health Physics Society
cordially invites you to attend a technical dinner meeting.
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
6:00 pm: Social hour, cash bar
7:00 pm: Dinner
8:00pm: Speaker: Brooke Buddemeier
Cost: $30
RSVP Deadline: Sean Austin by 4 p.m., January 17, 2011.
Speaker: Brooke Buddemeier is a Certified Health Physicist in the Global Security Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He supports the Risk and Consequence Management Division in their efforts to evaluate the potential risk and consequence of radiological and nuclear terrorism. LLNL does this by providing expert technical information in nuclear-threat assessment, nuclear incident response, and forensics and attribution. Brooke is a council member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and co-author of Commentary No. 19 - Key Elements of Preparing Emergency Responders for Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (2005). Brooke is an active member of the Health Physics Society (HPS) and chairs the training subgroup of the HPS Homeland Security Committee.
Topic: Recent Research to Improve Response Planning for the Aftermath of a Nuclear Detonation
The low-yield nuclear explosion from an act of nuclear terrorism is significantly different from the Cold War strategic thermonuclear detonation scenarios upon which much of our current understanding and civil defense planning is based. In May 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a program to identify appropriate life saving actions that the public, responders, and medical community can take after a low yield nuclear detonation in a modern US city. Efforts undertaken by the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, the Homeland Security Institute, Department of Energy national laboratories, and other technical institutions have significantly improved the understanding of the potential consequences of such an event and have identified key protective actions to prepare for and respond to the aftermath of nuclear terrorism. This updated analysis reveals that some prompt effects, such as initial radiation and thermal effects, may be over estimated, while other effects, such as blast and fallout effects, have been oversimplified.
RSVP Contact: Sean Austin (email preferred), or 301-990-6006 or 240-372-0226. If you must cancel your reservation, please notify Sean Austin by the RSVP deadline.
NOTE: Please consider personally inviting a friend or colleague that either is not a member (or perhaps a not-so-active member) to join us for this meeting. Thanks!
PARKING: Parking is available near the restaurant.
METRO: The Bethesda Metro station (Red Line) is approximately two to three blocks from the restaurant.
FUTURE MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please note that all dinner meetings will be posted on our Chapter website and provided to you via email. Please ensure your e-mail address is current with the Membership Committee.
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