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Radiation Protection and Shielding Division http://www‑rsicc.ornl.gov/rpsd/RPSD.html |
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Officers and Chairs of Standing Committees Chair Robert C. Little Phone 505-665-3487 Fax 505-665-3046 rcl@lanl.gov Vice-Chair / Chair-Elect Laurie S. Waters Phone 505-665-4127 Fax 505-667-7443 lsw@lanl.gov Secretary Jennifer E. Tanner Phone 509-375-6626 Fax 509-375-6936 jennifer.tanner@pnl.gov Treasurer Raymond T. Klann Phone 208-533-7673 Fax 208-533-7151 klann@anl.gov Immediate Past President / Nominating Bernadette L. Kirk Phone 423-574-6176 Fax 423-574-6182 blk@ornl.gov Program David
R. Anderson Phone 860-433-6584 Fax 860-433-0420 danders3@ebmail.gdeb.com Membership W.
Mark Blumberg Phone 301-415-1083 wmbl@nrc.gov Benchmarks Hamilton T. Hunter Phone 423-574-6297 Fax 423-574-6182 Honors & Awards Nick
Tsoulfanidis Phone 573-341-4745 Fax 573-341-4192 tsoul@umr.edu Standards LiaisonBill Hopkins Phone 301-417-3341 Fax 301-869-7084 whopkins@bechtel.com |
Chairman's Message (Robert C. Little) Colleagues, It is a pleasure to acknowledge to all of you the
terrific job done by our previous chair, Bernadette Kirk. Bernie has always been an active,
dedicated member of RPSD and of ANS.
She represented us well last year.
Thanks, Bernie! Over the past two years, ANS leadership has honestly
sought to redefine the Society to better meet the changing needs of its
members. How many of you have
followed the articles in Nuclear News and ANS News describing such things as
the new strategic plan, our strategic goals, and the recommendations of
various infrastructure task forces?
Are you encouraged, or do you tend to dismiss such activities as too
similar to those that you've had to struggle through at your own
organization? What do you think about
some of the concrete results of the process to date, for example: the
reintroduction of ANS News; the new ANS web site at http://www.ans.org; the
establishment of an ANS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow Program;
and the policy that governance meetings shall no longer conflict with
technical sessions at National Meetings? Most recently, the Infrastructure III Task Force has made
recommendations that focus on the roles of Divisions in the Society and on
various aspects of Society meetings, including planning, scheduling, improvements, and finances. Some of the recommendations are controversial, such as an
empowered Screening Committee of the National Program Committee with
authority to determine meeting placement (calendar and location) and a new
revenue sharing formula for Topical Meetings. Whether we agree with each individual recommendation or not, I think it is important not to lose sight of the idea that the underlying objectives of this whole process are sound. My primary goal for this year is to align RPSD with the strategic goals and initiatives of the Society that are most important to our members and to strongly pursue a few of them. To do this, I will rely heavily on our officers, Executive Committee members, and standing committee members. However, to maximize the benefits to RPSD I need input from a broader representation of the RPSD membership. Please contact me (505.665.3487 or rcl@lanl.gov) or any of the other people listed in this newsletter with your questions, concerns, ideas, offers of help, or feedback. When doing so, concentrate on specific actions you would like to see RPSD and the Society take to maximize the value of ANS membership to you. __________________________________________________________________________________ 1999 Long Beach Winter Meeting RPSD supported the ANS Winter meeting in Long Beach with 6 sessions and a total of 37 papers: Data and Analysis for Nuclear
Criticality Safety (co-sponsored with
NCSD and RPD) Radiation-Based Nondestructive Analysis
Techniques and Applications Radiation Protection and Shielding
Issues in Safeguards Operational Radiation Protection Radiation Protection and Shielding:
General Radiation Measurement Techniques and
Applications In addition, RSPD co-sponsored
the highly successful MCNPX Tutorial: Radiation Simulations and nuclear Data
for High Energy, Multiparticle Applications. Outstanding Paper (Nick Tsoulfanidis) The RPSD award for outstanding paper at the Long Beach meeting was "Assay of Contained Waste using Active and Passive Computed Tomography", G. Patrick Roberson, Harry E. Martz, (LLNL) David T. Nisius (Bio-Imaging). Congratulations to the authors! |
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Executive Committee W. Mark Blumberg Phone 301-415-1083 wmb1@nrc.gov Joseph C. Braun (ex-officio) Phone 630-252-5574 Fax 630-252-4500 joebraun@anl.gov Donald J. Dudziak Phone 919-515-2301 Fax 919-515-5115 dudziak@ncsu.edu Dan T. Ingersoll Phone 423-574-6102 Fax 423-574-9619 dti@ornl.gov Jeffrey O. Johnson Phone 423-574-5262 Fax 423-574-9619 joj@ornl.gov Bernadette L. Kirk (ex-officio) Phone 423-574-6176 Fax 423-574-6182 blk@ornl.gov R. T. PerryPhone 505-665-3521 Fax 505-667-7626 rtperry@lanl.gov Janet G. McFadden Phone 509-376-0610 Fax 509-376-7551 janet_mcfadden@wmnsnw.com Rizwan Uddin Phone 217-244-4944 Fax 217-333-2906 rizwan@uiuc.edu John D. Valentine Phone 513-556-2482 Fax 513-556-3390 john.valentine@me.gatech.edu James K. Warkentin Phone 254-897-8642 Fax 254-897-0545 kwarkentin@txu.com ANS Staff Liaison Sharon Kerrick Phone 708-579-8230 Fax 708-352-0499 |
Program
Committee News (David R. Anderson) I have
assumed the role of Program Committee Chairman from Ray Klann, as of the 1999
Winter Meeting. For the many of you
who don’t know me, I am a Radiation Analysis Engineer with Electric Boat
Corporation (makers of nuclear submarines).
I’m looking forward to working with the division and meeting more of
you. I have worked with Ray during
the July paper review for the Winter Meeting, and since then, Ray has
formally passed over the reigns to me. Here
is a short status of future meetings and activities. 2000 RPSD Topical Meeting, Spokane, Washington The
Topical meeting is scheduled for September 17-21, 2000, in Spokane,
Washington, and is hosted by the Eastern Washington Section. Jess Greenborg is the General Chair of the
meeting and Jennifer Tanner is the Technical Program Chair. The meeting is being organized jointly
with the Health Physics Society. I
hope everyone will be making plans to attend as it promises to be a very
worthwhile event. More information is
available at the conference web page http://www.ambinet.com.ans/rps2000.html, and the formal Call for Papers for the topical is
included in this newsletter. 2002 RPSD Topical Meeting, location TBD By the
time you read this, the selection for the location of the 2002 Topical Meeting
will have been made at the 1999 Winter Meeting in Long Beach. As this is written, there are 2 (or
possibly 3) bids being prepared.
[Postnote - At the Long Beach Program Committee meeting, the 2002
Topical was awarded to the Trinity Section, which plans to host the meeting
in Santa Fe, NM, in April 2002.] 1999 Winter Meeting, Long Beach, California Approximately
40 RPSD papers were submitted for review for the Winter Meeting. These were divided into several full
sessions and a split session. The paper
review went smoothly, thanks to the electronic review process, and as a
result, the on site paper review work was easy to handle. 2000 Summer Meeting, San Diego, California The
call for papers is out. Summaries are
due January 7, 2000. However, since
there is a Winter (International) Meeting, and the 2000 Topical, I would
recommend saving papers for those two meetings, as RPSD involvement in Annual
(summer) Meetings is limited. There
is a RPSD-General session listed in the call for papers for any papers that
are submitted. Electronic Review As Ray
asked in the last newsletter, I too would like to maintain a list of
volunteers who are willing to participate in electronic review of
papers. Papers are placed on a web
site in PDF format and comments are entered while accessing the web
site. I can attest that the process
is painless and it is a great help to me in organizing papers for upcoming
meetings. If we get a good number of
willing reviewers, then each should only have to review a few each time. Please e-mail or call me if you are
willing to help. It will be greatly
appreciated. Meeting Schedule 2000
ANS Annual Meeting, June 4-8, San Diego, CA 2000
RPSD Topical Meeting, Sept 17-21, Spokane, WA 2000
ANS Winter Meeting, Nov 12-17, Washington, DC 2001
ANS Annual Meeting, June 17-21, Milwaukee, WI 2001
ANS Winter Meeting, Nov 11-15, Reno, NV Again,
I’m looking forward to serving as the Program Chairman, and if you’d like to
help with paper reviews, please contact me at (860)433-6584 or danders3@ebmail.gdeb.com Dave |
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