Welcome to the Emergency Management Center (EMC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

This web site contains research and training materials developed by the staff of the EMC. Many of the documents referenced within are available for download as PDF (Adobe® Portable Document Format®) files.

You may also visit the EMC Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) website, which contains a variety of materials developed by EMC research staff for the CSEPP; Bibliography, Exercise, Planning, Publications and Training Materials.

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