RE: Job Posting Announcements

["Marco Caceci" <mcaceci@radal.com>]

Bill:



how right you are. But it can be worse.



A few days ago Gilles Montavon (montavon@subatech.in2p3.fr) published on

ABBE's (Jean-Charles.Abbe@IRCCYN.EC-NANTES.FR) e-mailer (RADCH-L) an ad

offering (for a postdoc) 1850 EU/month, for 11 months, to do 'research' in

Nantes: complete text below as proof - enjoy the English.



That is just about $20K.



Of course, the idea for any really smart scientist would be that this way

one can learn the ropes from such luminaries as Montavon (an expert in

Eu/humics interactions) and maybe ABBE The Censor Himself.

Than one could even go on to Orsay, where as far as I know Solange Hubert

(shubert@ipno.in2p3.fr) and coworkers are still looking for someone to do

their work for them (as they had posted here on November 19, 2001).

It seems, BTW, that this lab did manage to send young people to the US to

learn, but for some reason they don't come back...



More seriously, having grinded my ax... shortage is widely claimed for

radiochemists and nuclear chemists in Europe. In the US IMHO the money is

fairly good, if you are a citizen and can get security clearance (pot

smokers need not apply); maybe that can still motivate bright native sons to

work hard and for peanuts for a while. But in (most of) Europe the cash is

lousy for normal university professors (really smart ones find ways, don't

they?), just about reasonable in the JRC's and the CEA (but look at where

they send you!)... and there is hardly any other place to work at that

recruits competitively. Not the situation that attracts bright and

enthusiastic minds.



Done.



Marco



Dr Marco Caceci

Principal

LQC s.l.

Noorderbrink 26

2553 GB Den Haag

The Netherlands

Tel + 31 70 397 5653

http://chemitech.com





-----Original Message-----

From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of William V Lipton

Sent: 25 June, 2002 21:15

To: TConley@kdhe.state.ks.us

Cc: radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Job Posting Announcements





Please tell me you're joking:  $31 - 38K/yr!!!



If HPS thinks that the shortage of HP students is due to a lack of funding

for

academic programs,  this may give them a clue to look elsewhere.



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Curies forever.

Show me the money.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com





-----------------------

Title : Study of the sorption of Ni2+ and Eu3+ on natural organic-mineral

colloids



Place

Laboratoire Subatech –4, rue Alfred Kastler, BP20722, 44307 Nantes, Cédex

03, France

Contact: G. MONTAVON : Tel : 33(0) 251858420 ; Fax : 33 (0)251858452 ;

e-mail : montavon@subatech.in2p3.fr



Other laboratories implied

G2R ; UMR 7566 « Géologie et Gestion des Ressources Minérales et

Energétiques » Faculté des Sciences, BP236, 54501 VANDOEUVRE LES NANCY CEDEX

;

CEA Saclay avec UMR 8587 : Bld François Mittérand, 91025 EVRY CEDEX.



Project

In France, clay geological formations have been selected as potential sites

to store the nuclear waste. Organic-mineral colloids present in these

formations are potential vectors of migration of the radionuclides, in

particular if the organic matter becomes oxidized. The goal of this work is

to study the sorption of radionuclides on colloids extracted from sediments

coming from the East of France. This project is associated to a program

financed by the French National Research Center.



The objectives of the work are

1.	To develop a method allowing to extract the colloids from the sediment.

2.	To characterize the colloidal fraction either physically (size) or

chemically (functional groups – FTIR ; electrospray Mass Spectoscopy (ES-MS)

; elementary composition - ICPMS, MEB, MET). The goal of the

characterization is to understand the association between the organic matter

on the mineral surface and the effect of oxidation on the association.

3.	To study the sorption properties of oxidized and non-oxidized

organic-mineral colloids for Eu(III) and Ni(II). The work will be to measure

the isotherms and to study the reversibility of the adsorption.



Financial support

The grant is for a period of 11months. The salary is 1850 euros/months (once

the taxes removed).



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