NECHPS Annual Meeting

[William Lorenzen <LORENZEN_W@A1.TCH.Harvard.edu>]

          The New England Chapter of the Health Physics Society (NECHPS) 
          will hold its annual meeting on June 1st at the Westford Regency 
          Inn & Conference Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
          
          Program includes:
          
               8:00-8:45      Registration/reception
               8:45-9:30      HPS Role in Recent Scientific & Public Issues
               	    	      Keith Dinger, HPS
               9:30-10:15     Food Irradiation - Technologies & Applications
               	    	      Vicki Voleridge, Natick Labs
               10:15-10:45    Vendor Exhibits/Break
               10:45-11:15    Reinvention of the NRC's Generally-Licensed 
               	    	      Sources & Devices
               	    	      Greta Dicus, Commissioner, U.S. NRC
               11:15-11:45    CRCPD Activities & Issues
               	    	      Robert Hallisey, Former Chairman, CRCPD
               11:45-12:45    Buffet Lunch (Roast Beef & Baked Scrod)
               12:45-1:30     NECHPS Business Meeting
               1:30-2:00      Student Paper (Patient-Specific Factors in 
               	    	      determining release of I-131 therapy patients)
               	    	      David Desantis, U-Lowell
               2:00-2:30      Low Level Radioactive Waste - An Update
               	    	      Tom Norton, Executive Director MA-LLWMB
               2:30-3:00      Vendor Exhibits/Break
               3:00-3:30      IRPA Update of the Criticality Accident
               	    	      Frank X. Masse, MIT
               3:30-4:00      Radon Risk Model (The rule & the tool)
               	    	      Stan Rydell, U.S. EPA
          
          Registration Deadline is May 26, 2000
          Cost is   $45.00 for NECHPS Members
               	    $55.00 for non-members
               	    $25.00 for students
               	    Vendors wishing to display please call 617-355-7516
          
          To Register go to WWW.NECHPS.ORG
               OR
          Call 617-355-7516
          
          William A. Lorenzen, M.S.
          NECHPS President-Elect 99-00
          Program Chair

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