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Situational
Awareness Monitor for Nuclear Events--ADA Technologies, Inc., 8100 Shaffer
Parkway, Suite 130, Littleton, CO 80013-4124;
303-792-5615, www.adatech.com
Mr. Patrick
D. French, Principal Investigator, patrick.french@adatech.com
Mr. Clifford
H. Brown, Jr., Business Official, cliff.brown@adatech.com
DOE Grant No.
DE-FG02-03ER83590
Amount: $100,000
With the
ever-present threat of terrorist attacks on American soil, it is increasingly
important to monitor pre-nuclear-event warning signs and provide
post-nuclear-event assessment for use in consequence management and emergency
response. In particular, major urban
centers are potential targets of nuclear attacks, “dirty bomb” attacks, and
chemical/biological agent attacks. This
project will develop, demonstrate, and make commercially available a
cost-effective, easy-to-use Situational Awareness Monitoring System (SAMS).
The SAMS will be comprised of a series of individually configurable
Micro-environmental Sensor Pods (MSP), which are permanently deployed prior to
events to establish baseline conditions and to monitor for pre-event warning
signs. In addition, the system will
include MSPs that can be quickly deployed after an event to augment the network
with additional information necessary for emergency response and clean-up teams.
The redundant communications option insures that data will flow even when
the existing communication infrastructure is disabled due to the event.
Phase I will adapt an existing MSP platform to incorporate appropriate
radiation sensors for use in a SAMS network. Also,
a deployment methodology will be developed in order to maximize the value of
collected data for predicting the spread of contaminant plumes.