- Location: El Paso, Texas
- Date: 4 March 2026, 08:00 – 16:00
- Venue: Paso Del Norte Hotel
- Registration Deadline: 20 February 2026
El Paso Isotope Crossroads is a Radiological Transportation Security Tabletop Exercise (TTX) sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)/Office of Radiological Security (ORS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)/Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD)/Nuclear and Radiological Countermeasures Unit (NRCU).
The purpose of the TTX is to promote information sharing, joint situational awareness, team building, and problem resolution in a crisis response situation with Federal, State, and Local law enforcement and emergency response personnel, regulatory agencies, transportation companies, and radioactive material production companies among others when dealing with a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incident scenario involving Category 1 and 2 radioactive materials in commercial transit. Radioactive materials and transportation routes through the El Paso Area of Responsibility (AOR), transportation companies, incident response procedures, and crisis communications will be discussed during this one-day, no-fault, discussion-based exercise.
Point of Contact: Special Agent Casey Creppel, FBI El Paso
Registration Contact: Marisa Rivera, Sandia National Laboratories
Participant disciplines that would benefit from attending Isotope Crossroads are:
- Law Enforcement
- Fire/EMS
- HazMat
- Emergency Management
- State authorities to include regulatory authorities
- Civil Support and other military
- Dispatch and Communications
- Intelligence Gathering
- Fusion Centers
- Healthcare
- Academia
- Private Sector
- Federal, State, Local, and Tribal entities are all welcome.
Isotope Crossroads El Paso
4 March 2026
8:00 am- 4:00pm
Hotel Paso Del Norte, Autograph Collection
10 Henry Trost Ct, El Paso, TX 79901
