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Update: Changes and Innovations in REP Exercises

Update: Changes and Innovations in REP Exercises. “Summary of Focus Group Comments”. National Radiological Emergency Preparedness (NREP) Conference April 21, 2009. Joseph D. Anderson , Branch Chief U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Update: Changes and Innovations in REP Exercises

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  1. Update: Changes and Innovations in REP Exercises “Summary of Focus Group Comments” National Radiological Emergency Preparedness (NREP) Conference April 21, 2009 Joseph D. Anderson, Branch Chief U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office Nuclear Security & Incident Response

  2. Exercise Scenario Task Force • Tasked with: • Recommending potential enhancements to REP exercise scenarios, and • Engaging REP program stakeholders. • Focused proposed enhancements in these areas: • Reducing response organizations’ exercise pre-conditioning by identifying means of avoiding the predictability of exercise events and timing. • Enhancing REP response capabilities based on post 9/11 security initiatives by introducing hostile action-based (HAB) scenarios into the REP exercise cycle. • Providing for options to vary the amount and type of simulated radioactive releases during exercise play.

  3. FEMA-Sponsored Focus Groups

  4. Focus Group Participation

  5. Focus Group Participation

  6. Summary of Comments Received

  7. Proposed Scenario Enhancements

  8. Proposed Evaluation Area Enhancements

  9. Maintaining Alignment: Crosswalk of FEMA and NRC Documents FEMA NRC REP Program Manual NRCRulemaking Supplement 4 to NUREG-0654 Interim Staff Guidance

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