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Welcome!
Welcome to the East Tennessee Chapter of the Health
Physics Society (ETCHPS) Home Page.
The ETCHPS is a scientific and professional organization
whose members specialize in occupational, environmental,
and medical radiation safety. Our membership includes
professionals involved in commercial, industrial,
university, medical, and governmental radiation safety
activities throughout eastern Tennessee. We are a regional
affiliate of the Health
Physics Society .
Our mailing address is:
East Tennessee Health Physics Society
PO Box 7006
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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2020 James E. Turner
Back to School Lecture
Series
Tentative Presentations
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Title
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Presenter
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Radiation Relative
Risks:
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Atomic Bombings and
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident
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Rod Reed
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Neutronics
Analysis of an In-pile, Radiological Experiment
Designed to Simulate Prototypic Nuclear Thermal
Propulsion Conditions
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Emily Hutchins
(UTK)
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Fire Response
Involving Cm-243 and Fe-55 Sources
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Paul Jones
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Radium Contamination in the Oil Field –
Application of Radioactive Dating Priniciples
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John Frazier
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TBD
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Scott Schwahn
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The STURGIS D&D Project
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Rick Greene
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Recalling the SL-1
Accident
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John Aperans
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Reconstructing
Dose Rates from the
Fat Man and Little Boy Weapons
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Fred Haywood
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How Rapid is Rapid Enough for Emergency
Response Radiobioassay Methods?
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Tom Rucker
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Upcoming Events
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November 7,
2019 thru January 30, 2020
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NRRPT
Prep course
Begins November 7 and continues each
Thursday after except Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Years 2020.
Announcement and schedule
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| February 20, 2020
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Introduce a
Girl to Engineering 2020
9:00-11:30 AM
New Hope Center in Oak Ridge
Some of us are
planning to represent ETCHPS and Health Physics.
The event is sponsored by CNS/Y-12 and will be held at
the New Hope Center in Oak Ridge. No DOE badge
required. Only an interest in introducing the field of
health physics to young folk.
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February
22, 2020 (Saturday)
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Chapter
Meeting
2020 James E. Turner Back to School Lecture
Series
8 AM - Noon
Roane State Community College, Oak Ridge
Campus.
Oak Ridge City Room A-111
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Please join us in congratulating
Dr. Richard Toohey. Dr. Toohey has
been selected as the recipient of the 2019
HPS Distinguished Scientific Achievement
Award, to be presented at the annual HPS
meeting in July.
Congratulations!
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Next
Meeting
February 22, 2020
Roane State Community College
Oak Ridge Campus.
Oak Ridge City Room A-111
8 AM - Noon
2020 James E. Turner Back
to School Lecture Series
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Got
Science?
The ETCHPS is a proud sponsor of the Tennessee
Science Bowl
Save the
date February 28-29, 2020
Oak Ridge High School won the 2019 Tennessee
Science Bowl.
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