Savannah River National Laboratory

Al Goodwyn, CHP

Manager, Counterterrorism and Homeland SecurityApril 7, 2009

Homeland Security Science & Technology Summit (Southeast Region)

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Savannah River National LaboratoryOperated by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS)

For the US Department of Energy (DOE)

Part of the overall Savannah River Site

SRNL serves the nation in three major program areas:

National and Homeland Security

Energy Security

Environmental and Chemical Process Technology

Unwavering commitment to:

Safety

Security

Quality

Located at the Savannah River Site

310 Square miles (198,400 acres)

Near Aiken, SC and Augusta, GA

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Test & Evaluation Programs

Major HS program element

Developmental systems

COTS equipment

Multiple environments

Lab-scale, automated

Maritime

Terrestrial

Aerial

Mobile ops.

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Resilient Home

Prevention

Response

Assessment

Rebuilding

This program supports DHS Presidential Directive #5 “Management of Domestic Incidents.”

Goal: To assist in community recovery following a natural disaster by dramatically speeding the return of residents to their

homes.

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Training

SRNL’s scientific and radiation experts train first-line law enforcement, emergency management, and government agency personnel to safely perform chemical, biological, and radiation detection and quantification in the event of criminal mishandling or a criminal misuse of these materials

Training includes

The threat

Concepts of chemical and biological agents, and of radiation and radioactive material

Proper detection devices

Proper search techniques including safety techniques

Hands-on activities, practical exercises and realistic scenarios

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Radiological Response

Regional Reachback

SRNL supports the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) Preventative Radiation/Nuclear Detection mission by providing specialized scientific expertise in timely State/local radiation detector alarm adjudication.

Partner Labs: SRNL, ORNL/Y-12, BNL & EML

Coordinated through the DNDO Joint Analysis Center (JAC) to provide rapid technical and operational interpretation

Isotopes and approximate quantities presentIdentification of possible threat

Radiological Assistance Program (RAP)

Region 3 first-response resource in assessing an emergency situation and advising decision-makers

Forensics

Traditional and well as nuclear/radiological forensic capabilities.Venue for the FBI's traditional forensic examination of contaminated evidence

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Maritime Security Support

Maritime Background Radiation Program (MBRP)

Commercial vessel surveys

Gamma and neutron surveys

Emphasis on >300 GT

Preventive Rad/Nuc Detection (PRND) West Coast Pilot

San Diego and Seattle/Puget Sound

Gamma and neutron surveys

Mapping Surveys of Ports, Harbors and Marinas

Alarm frequency

Tactics, techniques and procedures

Non-Container Maritime Transport (NCMT) Pathways Study

Rad/Nuc security improvement recommendations

Maritime Security Analysis Model (MSRAM) Rad/Nuc

Module Integration

Consequence analysis

Mitigation Strategies

AVERT® Port-Specific Vulnerabilities Modeling

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First Responders’ Unmanned Reconnaissance & Retrieval Vehicles

Commercially available robotic-based vehicles carrying mission-specific payloads enter hostile or unknown environments prior to human entry

Continual video Intel gathering

Material transport tool

Swipes of RAD material and reports does rate analysis

Unmanned Aerial System (rotary wing) in development to support ground operations – imagery, radiation field mapping, ground sampling, operations support

Overhead imagery

Generates current topography map of area

Beyond-line-of sight communications

Fisheye raw image from vehicle platform video camera. Camera and robot tracks are seen at

the bottom of the image.

Robotic vehicles are capable of navigating in rough terrain

New 3-D maps state height of the rubble pile