Re: Request for information

[Jose Julio Rozental <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

Dear Franz,



As your presentation is very short, I think the best is to send some slides,

of operational activities during the emergency response  in Goiania:

There is not Scenario better than Goiania,  to train  First Responders,

medical personal, communication to society (public, political, media),  in

case of dirty bomb. We have learned many situations that never before we

could learn in any literature about emergency response and preparedness.

Collecting and preparing radwaste to transport in the middle of the street

near a supermarket - Fantastic slide to call attention to some situation

that we found during the emergency response; decontamination in heavy

raining, and many lessons yet to be learned, even after almost 17 years from

September 1987.

Please I have prepared for you 25 slides in ppt, choose what you wish, to be

used during your speech

Sorry some details in Portuguese copies from the press, but it is easy to

understand the picture

Good luck



Jose

----- Original Message -----

From: "Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

To: <Radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:33 PM

Subject: Request for information





> RADSAFErs,

>

> In June this year there will be a meeting of the Austrian Radiation

> Protection Society on the topic "Management of the consequences of a

> radiation accident or a nuclear catastrophe", which will be accompanied by

> an exercise using helicopter screening, sampling of soil and measurement

of

> samples.

>

> Since I am a member of the board of the Society, I have been asked to

> contribute with a paper on the provisions in the USA for terroristic

> attacks.

>

> My presentation has to be very short - 10 to 15 minutes - therefore I

would

> be happy to receive any hints for articles on the web, which would be a

kind

> of summary regarding the above topics. This would include information

about

> the new department for homeland security (including structure, duties,

> number of personnel, etc.), scenarios for (nuclear) weapons of mass

> destruction, RDD's and the question of vulnerability of nuclear

> installations to terroristic acts, information about control of harbours

and

> airports, imported goods etc.. Especially information about costs of

> preparedness would be very much appreciated (budget of DHS, cost of

> equipment installed at harbours, borders and airports, mobile units).

>

> I know that much information was distributed during debates on RADSAFE,

but

> to sort it out and especially to distinguish between facts and hearsay

might

> not be easy. Therefore I would appreciate web-sites with official

statements

> and numbers. The short time for presentation has to be overcome by

suitable

> graphs and tables.

>

> Whenever I had a question to RADSAFE before I received very valuable

> replies - I hope it will be the same this time! Thank you for your

> informations and your help beforehand.

>

> Franz

>

>

> ************************************************************************

> You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To

> unsubscribe, send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the

> text "unsubscribe radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail,

> with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at

> http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/

>

>





************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To

unsubscribe, send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the

text "unsubscribe radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail,

with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/