[PDF] Nuclear Incident Response Teams eBook

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2018-01-26
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ISBN : 9781984218711

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Nuclear incident response teams : hearing before the Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attack of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 27, 2005.

Author : United States Congress House of Represen
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2015-02-14
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ISBN : 9781298010483

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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309489172

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22â€"23, 2018, in Washington, DC, to explore medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident. The event brought together experts from government, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and the private sector to explore current assumptions behind the status of medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident, examine potential changes in these assumptions in light of increasing concerns about the use of nuclear warfare, and discuss challenges and opportunities for capacity building in the current threat environment. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309143969

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A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists-even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less-would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event. The United States has been struggling for some time to address and plan for the threat of nuclear terrorism and other weapons of mass destruction that terrorists might obtain and use. The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted with the Institute of Medicine to hold a workshop, summarized in this volume, to assess medical preparedness for a nuclear detonation of up to 10 kilotons. This book provides a candid and sobering look at our current state of preparedness for an IND, and identifies several key areas in which we might begin to focus our national efforts in a way that will improve the overall level of preparedness.