An introduction to EPA’s Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA)
- Who we are
- Our role in radiological emergency response
EPA’s response to the Fukushima Japan nuclear incident
- RadNet monitoring program
- What we found
EPA’s Radiation Emergency Response Program
- Personnel from ORIA and our regional radiation counterparts contribute to radiation emergency response by providing:
- Leadership of U.S. domestic response to foreign incidents, support for responses under Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex of National Response Framework
- Support to OSCs and Special Teams under National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP)
- Advice to the EPA Emergency Coordinator (OSWER/OEM) on radiation
ORIA Homeland Security/Radiological Emergency Response Program
- Center for Radiological Emergency Management
- Nuclear Incident Response Team
- Protective Action Guides (PAGs)
- MARSSIM, MARSAME, MARLAP
- EPA-RERP
- Radiological Emergency Response Team (RERT)
- Technical advice and assistance related to: prevention; containment; cleanup; and recovery from a radiological incident
- Provide advice on protective measures
- Perform assessments of dose and impact of any release
- Conduct monitoring, sampling, laboratory analyses and data assessments to assess and characterize environmental impacts
- Regional Support Roles
- Regional RERT Liaison – Coordinates between the regional radiation program and the RERT
- Regional Radiation Advisor – Provides radiological technical advice to the regional OSC, management, and personnel
Related articles
- April 12th, 2011 – RERP – Marine Corps/NRC/FEMA/SONGS – San Onofre perform detailed REP plume exercise involving (enformable.com)
- March 23rd, 2011 – The EPA took RADNet down because they were getting data from ‘other’ sources (enformable.com)
- March 17th, 2011 – RadNet isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We should be careful (enformable.com)
- Fukushima Women Sit-in Protest at Government Offices to Demand Better Protection for Children (enformable.com)
- March 29th, 2011 – The SAMGs are specially designed for this situation, why are people trying to seem like no clear direction? (enformable.com)
- “Significant” sources of radiation found on UK beach – Long-term plan required to remediate (enformable.com)
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