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Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site

The Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) program has been a significant part of DOE's radiation protection effort for over 30 years. This program provides state-of-the-art medical assistance, dosimetric assistance, and training efforts responsive to the Department's radiation accidents as its first priority; and, secondarily as a service on a worldwide basis. Personnel experienced in clinical radiation medicine are available on a 24-hour basis to evaluate patients directly or in consultation with their physicians, to provide clinical care management, and medical followup of survivors of serious radiation accidents. About 60 calls per year request this specialized assistance. REAC/TS personnel can treat workers or members of the public exposed to radiation or radioactive materials with appropriate conventional and developmental protocols. From REAC/TS research and registry of more than 400 past accident histories and pertinent clinical data from over 133,000 exposed individuals, it has been able to study the course of radiation induced pathology to suggest improvements for specialized treatment protocols. In this context, the group conducts maintains a selected inventory of chelating agents under Investigational New Drug Applications (INDA) as ameliorative options. Over 5,000 physicians, nurses, and emergency personnel have received REAC/TS training in the medical aspects of radiation accident preparedness and management. REAC/TS unique expertise in radiation medicine is sought frequently by program offices in DOE and in other Federal agencies.

Accomplishments:
  • Provided timely medical consultation and services to requests for assistance.

  • Established and maintained a comprehensive radiation accident register.

  • Enlisted and re-supplied co-investigators with fresh DTPA for the IND program.

  • Provided DTPA treatments.
Goals:
  • Provide state-of-the-art expertise in radiation medicine.

  • Continue to maintain and improve the REAC/TS radiation accident registries.

  • Maintain DTPA (diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) INDs and increase DTPA inventories.

  • Establish distribution of Prussian Blue to co-investigator physicians.

  • Continue REAC/TS educational and instructional programs.

  • Improve radiation treatment options through research and further clinical study.

Program Manager: Joseph F. Weiss

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