The truck missions are run on a video-game-like simulator, designed by a former Energy Department scientist who, among other things, assessed radiological impacts in Japan during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The jurisdictions used in the exercise are fictional, with sci-fi county names like Endor, Caprica, and Druidia.
These reports are part of a three-hour drill I’m observing inside a large conference room at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Indianapolis. “We didn’t wreck anything,” one driver says. Field teams report back on the radiation doses they’ve received while navigating a pickup truck through the city to respond to people who need assistance. One team leader relays a request from a heavily damaged adjacent county to help house survivors of the nuclear blast. Radiation, fires, and limited capacity at area hospitals and shelters complicate treatment of the wounded and communication with a panicked public. An emergency operations team is delivering its situation report, one of several coming in from county governments and field teams responding to the chaos after a 10-kiloton nuclear device exploded in the city, just an hour earlier. It’s a warm spring day in downtown Indianapolis.
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