Health Physics News
June 2009
Highlights of the 32-page June 2009 issue of Health Physics News that includes the CHP News insert
- COVER — The NCRP Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting was held 2-3 March 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland. This month's cover story highlights the meeting.
- PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE — President Dick Toohey thinks the time is right to initiate some serious strategy.
- INSIDE THE BELTWAY — David Connolly summarizes the "education" part of lobbying.
- GOVERNMENT RELATIONS LIAISON KEITH DINGER expands on David Connolly's article and tells about HPS interaction with congressional and federal agency staffing regarding medical isotope production.
- RICHARD V. OSBORNE outlines the new recommendations of the ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection), published in 2008. Dr. Osborne was a member of a Nuclear Energy Agency expert group that reviewed the new recommendations of the ICRP.
- AGENCY NEWS — The NRC seeks public comment on regulatory issues and options for potential changes to the agency's radiation protection regulations.
- CORRESPONDENCE — Mark Miller joins in on the discussion of health physics advocacy.
- NOTES — The Local Arrangements Committee for the HPS annual meeting in Minneapolis welcomes you to take part in the events that will be available at the meeting 12-16 July.
- The National Security Administration recognizes the University of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia for their national security leadership.
- The obituary of James E. Watson, Jr.
- Mark Maiello asks whether it is springtime for nuclear power or a lingering "nuclear winter."
- CHAPTER NEWS — The Central Rocky Mountain Chapter held a technical meeting jointly with the Colorado State University Student Branch in April.
- The North Central Chapter spring meeting was held 17 April in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
- COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES — The Membership Committee welcomes 269 new HPS members.
- The 2009 HPS special election is closed and the votes have been tallied.
- Mark Radonich, a member of the AHCCO, invites HPS members to develop an improved and widespread "common sense" regarding radiation science.
- ODDS AND ENDS — This month, Paul Frame talks about the Lind Electroscope.
- ADVERTISEMENTS — 10 display ads and 13 short courses are offered this month.
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