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Presents:
Monday, November 23, 2009
Presentation Topic:
DOE Nuclear Forensics Program
Speaker Bio: Donna Marie Beals (1981, South Carolina Honors College, University of South Carolina) won the 2007 ASTM International Harlan J. Anderson Award for her outstanding contributions to Committee C26 on Nuclear Fuel Cycle. An ASTM International member since 1995, Beals is recording secretary for the C26 main committee, and also serves on Committees D19 on Water and E54 on Homeland Security Applications. Beals is a fellow scientist at the in Aiken, S.C.
Ms. Beals attended the University of South
Carolina as a marine science major, and then attended graduate school at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, with an internship at Yale University in
between. Her research involved the
use of naturally occurring radionuclides to study ocean processes. Prior to joining the Savannah River National Laboratory
(SRNL), she worked as a research chemist at a commercial laboratory which
provided analytical services to several Department of Energy sites, thereby
learning about the man-made radionuclides in the environment.
Since joining the SRNL in 1991, Ms. Beals has
been involved with developing very sensitive analytical techniques for
environmental monitoring and for nuclear forensic analyses.
Her publications cover the periodic table, from tritium to plutonium,
from analytical method to instrument development, with sampling sites from the central
Pacific gyre (near Hawaii) to the Arctic Ocean.
Her current duties include teaching radiation detection to Federal Law
Enforcement agencies and acts as the Point-of-Contact to the National Technical
Nuclear Forensics Center for the SRNL.
Analysis of the Ra-226/228
Isotope Ratio to Determine the Source of Elevated Radium in the Groundwaters
Below an Old Coal Pile
Donna M. Beals , Bill Winn, and Miles Denham
Savannah River Technology Center
Surface and Groundwater Analyses
Using Solid Phase Extraction Disks
Donna M. Beals , Brian S. Crandall, Wanda G. Britt, Peter D.
Fledderman, Joseph P. Dugan, and Brad K. Davis
Westinghouse Savannah River Co. and Bechtel Savannah River Co.
Location:
Kingsgate Conference Center
Private Dining Room
513-487-3800
Social Time: 6:00 pm
Dinner: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 8:00 pm
Fee for Dinner:
Members: $30
Non-Members, Guests: $35
Dues are $10 per year
Please respond to meeting@crs-hps.org ASAP.
Registration is critical. Kingsgate wants a count prior to November 23, since a private buffet is being prepared.
If you have not paid your membership due for 2010, please have it paid during this meeting time.
Secretary of CRS
Meeting Minutes for November 23, 2009
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