Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism: TICs & TIMs

Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism
Training Support Package
Participant Guide
Slide 39
As an example of the low likelihood of medical personnel being secondarily
contaminated, the decontamination process for workers at Chernobyl who were in the
reactor area at the time of the nuclear accident resulted in less than 10 mGy (1 rad) of
radiation exposure to the members of the medical team. This is equivalent to the
radiation of one CT scan of the pelvis.
In April, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine had an event that
contaminated a broad region and exposed thousands of people. By far, the most highly
exposed and contaminated people were the fireman who first responded to the event
and attempted to put out the fire. Many of these men suffered from Acute Radiation
Syndrome and all were highly contaminated.
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