Jodie Ryan, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance sent me a link to Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN).
I thought you might be interested in the site. I've been involved with three different Dirty Bomb scenario exercises. In King County we did an Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC), off site and it was regional of course. Then there was TOPOFF 2 that took years off my life and made my left eye twitch (this was during the exercise planning stage). And, just last fall, TOPOFF 4 revisited the hazard and I was in Portland helping with one portion of that exercise.
Radiation is not an easy topic. People don't like to see it anywhere outside of their doctor's office, and there are not that many health physicists who know the topic. When we did T2 (short for TOPOFF 2) we found out that we had no local expertise within our public health, and we were lucky that we have a nuclear power plant in the state and the Handford site that has many different types of experts who could deploy to help with monitoring and also the health impacts.
Still it was a difficult hazard to deal with.
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I thought you might be interested in the site. I've been involved with three different Dirty Bomb scenario exercises. In King County we did an Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC), off site and it was regional of course. Then there was TOPOFF 2 that took years off my life and made my left eye twitch (this was during the exercise planning stage). And, just last fall, TOPOFF 4 revisited the hazard and I was in Portland helping with one portion of that exercise.
Radiation is not an easy topic. People don't like to see it anywhere outside of their doctor's office, and there are not that many health physicists who know the topic. When we did T2 (short for TOPOFF 2) we found out that we had no local expertise within our public health, and we were lucky that we have a nuclear power plant in the state and the Handford site that has many different types of experts who could deploy to help with monitoring and also the health impacts.
Still it was a difficult hazard to deal with.
