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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2014. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/19002.
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Appendix A

Symposium Agenda

8:00 AM Call to Order and Welcome
Kevin D. Crowley, National Academy of Sciences
 
8:05 AM Past Nuclear Reactor Accidents: Where? When? Why?
Steven L. Simon, National Cancer Institute
 
8:20 AM Emergency Response Research Needs
Nicole Lurie, Department of Health and Human Services
 
SESSION 1 HEALTH AND OTHER EFFECTS
Moderated by Martha S. Linet, committee chair
 
8:40 AM Physical Health Effects
Alina V. Brenner, National Cancer Institute
 
9:05 AM Social, Psychological and Behavioral Impacts
Steven M. Becker, Old Dominion University College of Health Sciences
 
9:30 AM Session 1 Discussion
 
9:50 AM BREAK
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2014. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/19002.
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SESSION 2 EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Part 1 Management of Health Effects
Moderated by Steven L. Simon, committee member
 
10:05 AM Emergency Biodosimetry
William F. Blakely, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
 
10:25 AM Some Lessons Learned Regarding Medical Preparedness and Response from Several Types of Nuclear Power Plant Accidents
Albert L. Wiley, Jr., REAC/TS and WHO Collaborating Center at Oak Ridge
 
10:45 AM Potassium Iodide – Mechanism of Action
Jan Wolff, National Institutes of Health (retired)
 
11:05 AM Issues in Planning for Potassium Iodide Distribution
Patricia A. Milligan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Steven A. Adams, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Brad Leissa, Food and Drug Administration
Adela Salame-Alfie, New York State Department of Health
 
11:40 AM Session 2 Part 1 Discussion
 
12:10 PM LUNCH (Available for purchase at the refectory—3rd floor)
 
SESSION 2 EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Part 2 Protective Measures
Moderated by Adela Salame-Alfie, committee member
 
1:00 PM Environmental Radiation Measurements
Daniel J. Blumenthal, Department of Energy
 
1:20 PM Population Monitoring after a Radiation Emergency: The Early Response
Armin Ansari, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 
1:40 PM Planning for Long-Term Follow-Up and Health Risk Studies
Martha S. Linet, National Cancer Institute
 
2:00 PM Post Emergency Transition to Recovery
William E. Irwin, Vermont Department of Health
Gerilee W. Bennett, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Sara D. DeCair, Environmental Protection Agency
S.Y. Chen, Illinois Institute of Technology
 
2:40 PM Session 2 Part 2 Discussion
 
3:00 PM BREAK
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2014. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/19002.
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SESSION 3: COMMUNICATIONS
Moderated by Jerome S. Puskin, committee member
 
3:15 PM The Federal Response; Lessons Learned from Fukushima
Major General Julie A. Bentz, National Security Staff, Office of the President
 
3:30 PM Environmental Data Sharing During Radiological Emergencies: A Collaboration Effort between Local, State and Federal Radiation Programs
Adela Salame-Alfie, New York State Department of Health
 
3:45 PM Media Meltdown
Miles O’Brien, PBS NewsHour
 
4:00 PM Communication in Nuclear Emergency
James McIntyre, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Patricia A. Milligan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Lee Ann B. Veal, Environmental Protection Agency
Daniel J. Blumenthal, Department of Energy
Leeanna Allen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Major Jama VanHorne-Sealy, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
 
5:00 PM Session 3 Discussion
 
5:40 PM Final Remarks
Organizing committee
 
5:45 PM Adjourn Symposium
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2014. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/19002.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2014. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/19002.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2014. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/19002.
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The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident summarizes the presentations and discussions of the May 2014 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium titled "The Science and Response to a Nuclear Reactor Accident". The symposium, dedicated in honor of the distinguished National Cancer Institute radiation epidemiologist who died in 2003, was co-hosted by the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. The symposium topic was prompted by the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was initiated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the northeast coast of Japan. This was the fourth major nuclear accident that has occurred since the beginning of the nuclear age some 60 years ago. The 1957 Windscale accident in the United Kingdom caused by a fire in the reactor, the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States caused by mechanical and human errors, and the 1986 Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union caused by a series of human errors during the conduct of a reactor experiment are the other three major accidents. The rarity of nuclear accidents and the limited amount of existing experiences that have been assembled over the decades heightens the importance of learning from the past.

This year's symposium promoted discussions among federal, state, academic, research institute, and news media representatives on current scientific knowledge and response plans for nuclear reactor accidents. The Beebe symposium explored how experiences from past nuclear plant accidents can be used to mitigate the consequences of future accidents, if they occur. The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident addresses off-site emergency response and long-term management of the accident consequences; estimating radiation exposures of affected populations; health effects and population monitoring; other radiological consequences; and communication among plant officials, government officials, and the public and the role of the media.

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