u CLASSIFIED ' f ' ' ' - 10 lc•sst' Aragon IJSJ Division Leader DATE ' u Allen Valentine Radiation Protection Group Leader FAOM sueJEcr 'J'' _ memorandum Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos New Mexico 87545 •• r tlJ Richard Smale Assoc G r o u t Y MAllSTOP lEl£PHONE· SYMBQl January 7 1987 K84 7-8080 HSE-l-RS-3 TRIP REPORT DECEMBER 7 TO 13 CAMP ATTERBURY INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA This was the definitive trip for the MIGHTY DERRINGER exerci•se My role was as a radiological effects and consequence planner and controller for the domestic phase of the exercise The exercise scenario was as follows Terrorists had stolen two nuclear devices from a developing nuclear capable country they had hidden one device in a foreign country and one device in the Continental United States CONUS By a series of events the device in CONUS was traced to Indianapolis and in cooperation with the FBI and law enforcement agencies it was searched for by the Nuclear Emergency Search Team NEST and located in a house in downtown Indianapolis along with the terrorists and hostages The FBI was the overall agency in charge of the negotiations with the terrorists and the subsequent assult to gain control of the device This phase was successfully completed and when cont ro 1 of the de _ £_e _ 'g 9 b Lllt ru O the - r s r_ s c ient i_st _S o 1cl _ 1_a e __di i _b l' _d -iJ _ b 1 The overall consequence management was done by the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEHA the technical and data gathering function were done by DOE under a Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center FRMAC from the National Guard Camp at Fort Atterbury My role was to observe the Federal interfaces and provide the the radiologi al and fallout data necessary to give the players realistic problems This was done by using a combination of LLNL Atmospheric Releai e Advisory Center AMC plots and a real nuclear event of the same yield JOHNNY BOY Pre-conceived wind and weather forecasts were used during the first few days so the players could plan for either a dispersal or a worst case type conclusion When the actual consequence occured the dol lTlwind fallout was fed to the players as a series of situation reports aerial survey measurements ground readings dairy milk analysis water sample etc etc In total more than SO separate sets of data and injects were used during the 4 days of the exercise f 1 -The consequence phase was only from 0715 Thursday 11 Dec to 1200 Friday 12 Dec but it was more than successful in providing a meaningful set of prohlcms for che players They Jere ahlc to solve 1111 0f the organizational ditficulLics inltcrc nt in 111ul i - i - 11cy l c • ' - •· i f 1 1 have still all of he data sheets weather reports fallout plots l radiological injects and technical information is welcome to see them RFS ac Xe l B Harrigan HSE-DO MS K491 J Orcutt HSE-1 NTS MS J900 K Groves HSE-1 MS K483 C Henry J-DO MS K497 File ···--- • · l A ' _ f 1 l-j _ tf 'i f-Jt'·i' ' '· - • - •·l' r r- 1- r ' ' · ''h1 d - - • '- - - - i f Anyone 1Jho is interested