An emergency exercise will be conducted at the East Tennessee Technology Park in west Oak Ridge beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 16.
The emergency exercise is being conducted by URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, or UCOR.
The exercise, which should conclude no later than 1 p.m., is being conducted in coordination with the U.S. Department of Energy and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, a press release said. It will involve participants from multiple state agencies; the city of Oak Ridge; and Anderson, Knox, Loudon, and Roane counties.
The exercise will be initiated by public address and radio announcements by the Park Shift Superintendent to personnel at ETTP. It will include actors in the field with simulated injuries, emergency response vehicles traveling around the site, and response personnel using instruments performing environmental monitoring or sampling activities onsite and offsite. As part of the exercise scenario, some buildings at the site will be asked to take cover, shelter-in-place, and perform accountability.
The public and visitors are advised to take extra precautions near the vicinity of exercise activities onsite or offsite. In case of bad weather, the ETTP exercise will be rescheduled for 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 17.
This full-participation exercise is conducted every three years at ETTP. These exercises are also held on alternate years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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