Brooke Buddemeier Mr. Buddemeier is a Certified Health Physicist (Radiation Safety Specialist) in the Global Security directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He supports the Risk and Consequence Management Division in their efforts to evaluate the potential risk and consequences of radiological and nuclear terrorism. LLNL does this by providing expert technical information in nuclear threat assessment, nuclear incident response, and forensics and attribution. Mr. Buddemeier is a council member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and co-author of Commentary No. 19: Key Elements of Preparing Emergency Responders for Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (2005). He is an active member of the Health Physics Society (HPS) and chairs the training subgroup of the HPS Homeland Security Committee. From 2003 through 2007, Mr. Buddemeier was on assignment with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the WMD emergency response and consequence management program manager for Science and Technology’s emergency preparedness and response portfolio. He supported FEMA and the Homeland Security Operations Center as a radiological emergency response subject matter expert. He also facilitated the department’s research, development, test, and evaluation process to improve emergency response through better capabilities, protocols, and standards. Before moving to DHS, he was part of LLNL’s Nuclear Counterterrorism Program and coordinated LLNL’s involvement in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Radiological Assistance Program (RAP) for California, Nevada, and Hawaii. RAP is a national emergency response resource that assists federal, state, and local authorities in the event of a radiological incident. As part of RAP’s outreach efforts, Mr. Buddemeier has provided radiological responder training and instrumentation workshops to police, firefighters, and members of other agencies throughout the nation. He has also trained radiological emergency responders on the use of specialized radiological response equipment throughout the United States and in Kazakhstan. Mr. Buddemeier has also provided operational health physics support for various radiochemistry, plutonium handling, accelerator, and dosimetry operations at LLNL for more than 15 years, and he has been working on emergency response issues for more than 10 years. He has participated in radiological emergency responses and exercises throughout the world. Mr. Buddemeier is a Certified Health Physicist. He received his MS degree in radiological health physics from San Jose State University in May 1997 and his BS degree in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 1987.
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