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OPERATION SYNERGY
Los Alamitos, California
March 2004
Objective
• Demonstrate integration and interactions of
Federal, state, and local response
management to a nuclear / radiological
emergency response.
Participants
• DHS
• DOE
– Bechtel Nevada
– LANL
– LLNL (NARAC)
– SNL
– RAP
• FBI
• CA State Dept. of
Health
• CA State OES
• Local LA County
• Local Orange County
• A-Team
• EPA
• NRC
Scenario
• The Secretary of Homeland Security and the
FBI report an unknown terrorist group has
targeted the Los Angeles area for attack.
Inject 1
• Shipment of radioactive transport was hijacked en route
from Hanford Reservation to the Nevada Test Site.
– 70 kCi of Cs-137 and 150 kCi of Sr-90
• Terrorist hotel room raid in Tijuana, Mexico reveals RDD
bomb plans & maps of Southern California.
• Federal Response – DHS, FBI & DOE
• State Response - California
• Local Response – Los Angeles County
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What Federal Plan are we operating under?
If bomb blows up, who is LFA?
What is position on Public Affairs?
What is position on special events?
What are you going to do with bomb if you
find it?
• What are the resources available for this
problem?
Inject 3
• 9-1-1 call. Explosion in Stanton Park.
• Fire chief reports gamma radiation
• News helo begins circling. Shows dead
bodies on the ground.
• Federal Response – DHS, FBI & DOE
• State Response - California
• Local Response – Los Angeles County
NARAC Prediction
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• Who is responding?
• What are you telling the Governor, mayors,
councilmen, President, press?
• What are the rules of evidence collection?
Inject 4
• Simultaneous radiation hit on source found in storage facility. What
to do? Lease is under a false name.
• Press overhears on radio and reports radiation dispersal device
found in Los Angeles U-Rent-Em Storage Facility.
• Federal Response – DHS, FBI & DOE
• State Response - California
• Local Response – Los Angeles County
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Who will pick it up? Who will dispose of it?
What do you need to cut lock?
Should we evacuate?
Owners of facility – who is paying for damage?
Inject 5
• FBI apprehends terrorists. Lone insurgent. Focus all
attention on consequence management activities.
Data Product
Inject 7
Issues:
Population Affected: 200,000
Dead Bodies in Highly Contaminated Area
Collapsed school nearby with 2 people trapped in
building.
Hospitals / doctors saturated with worried well
Pets in evacuated area
Agriculture – see next slide
Ingestion Pathway Plume
Lessons Learned
• Several instances of players dismissing of problems.
• Crisis to Consequence Management is a complicated
process not practiced enough.
• Intensity of public officials, press, and public
demands cannot be simulated.
• More Synergy Type Exercises are Needed in Major
Metropolitan Areas.
Ground Truth
Questions?