Tag: Radiological
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Protective Actions for Radiation Emergencies – Get Inside, Stay Inside, Stay Tuned
An accident at a nuclear power plant, a nuclear explosion, and a dirty bomb are examples of radiation emergencies. If a radiation emergency happens nearby, immediately leaving the area may not be the best course of action. Instead, emergency response officials may tell you to get inside a building and take shelter for a period…
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Protective Actions for Radiation Emergencies – Food and Water Safety
After a radiation emergency, food and water sources may become contaminated with radioactive material. Consuming contaminated food and water will cause radioactive material to get inside your body, but you can eliminate or reduce the amount of contamination by taking a few precautions.
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Protective Actions for Radiation Emergencies – Self-Decontamination
If you are outside in an area when a radiation emergency happens, you could be contaminated with radioactive material. Radioactive material can fall from the air and land on people, buildings, roads, cars, and other objects. This is called contamination. It is important to get radioactive contamination off your body as soon as you can…
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Radiological Emergency Preparedness in Wisconsin
DJ LeClear (formerly with WI DHS) presents on Radiological Emergencies at the NCRTAC Trauma Conference 2023
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Response to A Radioactive Material Transportation Incident
This video is intended to demonstrate how radiation detectors are used to respond to a radioactive material transportation incident.
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What Do Radiation Contamination and Exposure Mean?
This brief animated video describes the concepts of radiation exposure and contamination with radioactive materials, to help people understand how to protect themselves in a radiation emergency and how these terms are used differently than in an infectious disease emergency. Removing radioactive contamination (decontamination) will be an important protective action in a radiation emergency.
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Applied Gamma Spectroscopy Using InterSpec
Gamma spectroscopy can be a useful method for non-destructive identification and characterization of nuclear or radioactive sources for emergency response, field measurements, and the laboratory. But often times analysis can be hampered by the availability or quality of analysis tools. InterSpec is an open-source (http://github.com/sandialabs/InterSpec/) peak- based gamma analysis tool that can be used for…
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Radiation Risk Communication for Public Health
Providing information for the public in a radiation disaster will be a challenge, even for experienced communicators. This training provides resources and best practices for communication before, during, and after a radiation emergency.
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Communication for a Nuclear or Radiological Disaster
On February 27, CDC’s Emergency Partners Information Connection and the National Center for Environmental Health held a special webinar on nuclear and radiological emergencies. One of CDC’s top communication experts on this topic discusses the misunderstandings and the reality of radiation exposure, how a nuclear event would affect people, what actions to take and avoid…
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Nuclear Emergency Response at Three Mile Island
Presentation on the emergency response to the Three Mile Island Accident.