Radsafers:
A Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear Waste and Energy will be held at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH 16-21 July 2000. Posters are welcome in the following areas: environmental and waste chemistry, health effects of low-level radiation, advances in the nuclear fuel cycle, and risk perception and communication.
Application materials and details about the conference may be found at the Gordon Research Conference web site at www.grc.uri.edu
If you are interested in presenting a poster please contact Greg Choppin at Florida State University (conference vice-chair) at
choppin@chem.fsu.edu
The technical program has been set. An outstanding group of scientists on the leading edge of research in environmental and waste chemistry, radiation health effects, the nuclear fuel cycle, and risk perception and communication have agreed to make presentations:
Keynote Presentations (Sunday 16 July 2000 PM)
Discussion Leader: Jordi Bruno (QuantiSci, Spain)
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) “Bridging policy and science”
Ingemar Grenthe (Royal Institute of Technology-Sweden) “How do the recent advances in actinide chemistry and molecular dynamics contribute to the design of waste management alternatives?”
Richard Setlow (Brookhaven) “How can recent advances in the molecular biology of cancer contribute to our understanding of radiation risks at low doses?”
Darleane Hoffman (Lawrence Berkeley) "Studies of radionuclide migration at the Nevada Test Site"
Health Effects-Molecular and Cell Studies (Monday 17 July 2000 AM)
Discussion Leader: Tim Jorgensen (Georgetown)
Les Braby (Texas A&M) “Cell communication and effective target size for carcinogenesis”
Al Fornace (NIH) "The use of stress gene responses and functional genomics to assess radiation exposure"
Charles Geard (Columbia) “Cell transformation by single alpha particles”
Partitioning and Transmutation Techniques (Monday 17 July 2000 PM)
Discussion Leader: Alan Waltar (Texas A&M)
Rodney Ewing (Michigan) “Source term partitioning and the development of waste forms” Greg vanTuyle (Los Alamos) “Challenges associated with accelerator-driven systems for transmutation of long-lived nuclear wastes”
Radionuclide Transport (Tuesday 18 July 2000 AM)
Discussion Leader: Gilbert Eggermont (MOL, Belgium)
Geert Volckaert (MOL, Belgium) "Integrating laboratory and in situ migration data in performance assessment for the Mol Clay Site"
Heino Nitsche (Lawrence Berkeley) "Actinides at geologic and microbial interfaces"
James Davis (US Geological Survey) “Adsorption, speciation and transport of Uranium(VI)”
Young Scientists Session (Tuesday 18 July 2000 PM)
Discussion Leader: Art Janata (Georgia Tech)
Oleg Egorov (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) “Automating analytical separations in radiochemistry”
Rebecca Chamberlin (Los Alamos) “Technetium chemistry in aging alkaline tank wastes”
Daniel F. Caputo (MIT) “The role of chemical speciation in radioactive waste management”
Gabriele Fioni (CEA France) “Experimental study of the transmutation of actinides in high intensity neutron fluxes”
Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Wednesday 19 July 2000 AM)
Discussion Leader: Jerry Cuttler (AECL, Canada)
Peter Boczar (AECL, Canada) “Advanced nuclear fuel cycles for heavy water moderated power reactors”
Paul Chodak (Los Alamos) “Management of global plutonium inventories using light water reactors”
Mike Todosow (Brookhaven) "A novel Thorium-based fuel concept with enhanced proliferation resistance"
Health Effects-Organismic and Population Studies (Wednesday 19 July 2000 PM)
Discussion Leader: Tony Brooks (Washington State)
Bob Ullrich (Texas-Galveston)"Mechanisms of radiation carcinogenesis"
Richard Monson (Harvard) “Current and future research in radiation epidemiology”
Risk Communication and Perception (Thursday 20 July 2000 AM)
Discussion Leader: Arland Carsten (Brookhaven)
Vince Covello (Columbia) "Risk communication strategies"
Paul Slovic (Decision Research, Oregon) “Nuclear waste and perceived risk: Trust, emotion, sex, politics, and science.” Roger Kasperson (Clark) “International perspectives on radioactive waste management: Engaging the future”
Radionuclide Mobility and Fate (Thursday 20 July 2000 PM)
Discussion Leader: Roy Gephart (Pacific Northwest Laboratory)
Andrew Felmy (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) "Fluid and contaminant transport in subsurface systems: Accelerated progress in quantitative analysis"
Brian Looney (Savannah River) “Characterization of contamination source terms”
Kenneth L. Mossman
Conference co-chair
Professor of Health Physics
Director, Office of Radiation Safety
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-3501
Phone: 480.965.0584/6190
Fax: 480.965.6609
Cellular: 602.769.2371
E-mail: ken.mossman@asu.edu