title: NARAC: an emergency response resource for predicting the atmospheric dispersion and assessing the consequences of airborne radionuclides.
abstract: The National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC) serves as a national resource for the United States, providing tools and services to quickly predict the environmental contamination and health effects caused by airborne radionuclides, and to provide scientifically based guidance to emergency managers for the protection of human life. NARAC's scientists have developed a diverse tool kit of numerical modeling capabilities to respond to different types of release events, distance scales (local, regional, continental, and global), and response times.
authors.affiliation: National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-103, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551, USA. mbradley@llnl.gov
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Bradley
mesh_terms: D000392:Air Movements; D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D001272:Atmosphere; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004630:Emergencies; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D035082:Federal Government; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D009689:Nuclear Warfare; D011835:Radiation Protection; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011868:Radioisotopes; D018570:Risk Assessment; D023481:Terrorism; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D011868:Radioisotopes