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BWCHPS Presentations from Dinner and Annual Meetings

May 13, 2011 - Annual Meeting of BWCHPS
Prof. Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, University of Maryland - Overview of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident
Dan Blumenthal, U.S. Department of Energy - Fukushima Dai-Ichi: A Personal Account of DOE's Response
Mike Boyd and Ed Tupin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - EPA Response to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident
Cynthia Jones, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NRC Activities Concerning the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident
Alan Fellman, Ph.D., Dade Moeller & Associates - Continuity of Commerce in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident
Student Session
Jake McComb, University of Maryland: Neutron Detection Based on Far-Ultraviolet Excimer Emission
Layla Shahamat, University of Maryland: Point Defects and Diffusion of Cesium in SiC Layer of TRISO coated fuel particle

February 24, 2011 - William C. Ostendorff, Commissioner, NRC

January 19, 2011
Recent Research to Improve Response Planning for the Aftermath of a Nuclear Detonation
Brooke Buddemeier, CHP, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

January 6, 2011 - Barrett N. (Barry) Fountos

October 13, 2010
Pit Disassembly and Conversion Project: Radiological Design Considerations, 
Update on Activities of the HPS
Kathryn H. Pryor, CHP - HPS President-Elect

September 15, 2010 - Joint Meeting with ANS and BWC, Commissioner William D. Magwood IV, NRC

May 14, 2010 - Annual Meeting of BWCHPS

April 6, 2010 - Biological Dosimetry, William F. Blakely, Ph.D.

February 25, 2010
Radiation, Epidemiology, and Cancer
John D. Boice, Jr., Sc.D.

November 12, 2009
Challenges in Dose Reconstruction Update on the Energy Employees Occupational Illness and Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA)
Edward F. Maher, Sc.D., CHP, Health Physics Society President-Elect

September 2, 2009

Recent Activities and Advances in the CRCPD

Adela Salame-Alfie, Ph.D., CRCPD

May 15, 2009 - 50th Anniversary of the Baltimore Washington Chapter, Health Physics Society  

Think R, not mR: Training Responders with "Pagers" Only Exaggerates the Fear Factor
Allen Brodsky, Georgetown University

The Rise and Fall of Rad Health in the US PHS
John C. Villforth, Retired, FDA

Major Radiological Activities Affecting the Environment
Harold T. Peterson, Jr., M.N.E., CHP

Fifty Years of Radiation Mythology
Ray Johnson, MS, PE, FHPS, CHP


April 22, 2009 
Nanotechnology Policy, Standards, and Guidance
Bill McArthur, PhD, CIH

February 5, 2009
Tritium Exit Sign Problem - Issues & Implications
Mathew P. Moeller, CHP

November 18, 2008
Will they ever learn? The Public Education Game
Howard Dickson, President-elect

October 15, 2008 
Lessons Learned from International Radiological Incident
Cari Borrás, D.Sc., FACR, FAAPM

May 15, 2008 - Annual Meeting of  BWCHPS
Performance Assessment Issues in Waste Management and Environmental Protection
Christopher Grossman, NRC

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Biodosimetry in Teeth and Fingernails
A. Romanyukha1,2, R.A. Reyes2, F. Trompier3, L.A. Benevides1, H.M. Swartz4 
1
Naval Dosimetry Center, 8901 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD, 20889, USA
2Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd., Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
3
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-roses, France
4
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA

The Resurgence of Nuclear Power 
Ralph L. Andersen, CHP, NEI

Outlook for Radiation Protection 
Ralph L. Andersen, CHP, NEI

Current and Planned NCRP Activities
David A. Schauer, NCRP

The London Po-210 Poisoning Case: What we know and what we don't know
CAPT Michael A. Noska, USPHS

March 26, 2008 

Overview of the Commonwealth's Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Response Program 

David J. Allard, CHP

December 14, 2007 

Radioimmunotherapy and Targeted Alpha-Particle Therapy

George Sgouros, Ph.D.


Risk Concerns Following Diagnostic X-ray Procedures 

John Jacobus, MS, NIH


Population Monitoring 

Edward Tupin, EPA


Recent NRC Activities in Materials Security 

George Pangburn, NRC


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