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The SCCHPS Wrokshop and Meeting - Thursday, January 22, 2004
Happy New Year Radsafers!
There will be a SCCHPS Wrokshop and Meeting on
Thursday, January 22, 2004, at the UCLA Faculty Center
Agenda: 3 - 5 PM Afternoon Workshop
5 - 5:30 PM Social Half-hour
5:30 - 6:30 PM Dinner
6:30 PM Dinner Speaker
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The SCCHPS is please to offer an afternoon workshop in
conjunction with our next regularly scheduled meeting:
Workshop: DOT Shipment & Receipt of Radioactive
Materials
This class is intended to assist individuals
responsible for shipping and receiving radioactive
materials. This course is designed to train employees
in accordance with the requirements of the DOT as
specified in 49 CFR 172 Subpart H and the NRC as
specified in 10 CFR 71.5 and 10 CFR 20.1906.
The main focus of the class will be function-specific
packaging, labeling, marking, placarding, and
package-handling requirements for DOT Class 7
radioactive materials including those normally
encountered in biomedical research and academic
institutions. In addition, the class will examine the
different categories of radioactive material and the
transportation requirements of excepted packages for
limited quantities and instruments or articles, LSA,
and Type A Quantities. This class will also focus on
the new Hazardous Materials Transportation Security
Plan requirements as specified in 49 CFR Subpart I
(brand new).
Participants will take a test and will receive a
template that may be used to document employer
certification of DOT training as required by 49 CFR
172.704(d).
When: January 22, 2004, 3 - 5 PM
Where: UCLA Faculty Center
Cost: $50 if you attend the workshop only
$75 if you attend the workshop and the
regularly scheduled dinner meeting
We can only accommodate 20 people in this workshop, so
make your reservation NOW.
Contact Tosh Ushino via email at
tushino@globaldosimetry.com
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Speaker: Dr. J. Marvin Herndon "Nuclear Heart of the
Earth"
Menu: NY steak, Stuffed breast of Chicken, or
Rigatoni.
Dinner will be $25. Please RSVP your attendance and
menu choice to Tosh Ushino via email at
tushino@globaldosimetry.com
Dinner Speaker: J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D.
"What is Earth? Poets say it’s a celestial sapphire,
a cerulean orb. Astronomers say it’s a medium-size
planet orbiting an average star. Some
environmentalists say it’s Mother. Biologists say
it’s life’s only known home. But the most
scientifically precise definition may prove to be the
one that no one suspected. Earth, says geophysicist J.
Marvin Herndon, is a gigantic natural nuclear power
plant." wrote Brad Lemley, the author of Nuclear
Planet, the cover story of the August 2002 issue of
Discover Magazine.
In his presentation, Dr. Herndon will narrate the rest
of the story, from the initial concept of an energy
source explaining Jupiter’s prodigious internal energy
production to recent numerical simulations of a
deep-Earth nuclear fission reactor conducted at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory that yield the first strong
evidence. Some may be surprised to find that nuclear
fission is not only a part of Nature, but that
humankind owes its well-being, if not its very
existence, to a nuclear reactor at the center of the
Earth. For additional information see
http://NuclearPlanet.com
J. Marvin Herndon received a B.A. degree in Physics
from the University of California at San Diego in
1970. In 1974, he earned the Ph.D. degree in Nuclear
Chemistry from Texas A&M University. After receiving
the Ph.D., he was invited to return to UCSD for
post-doctoral study in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
under Professors Hans E. Suess and Harold C. Urey. In
1979 Herndon published a brief paper in the
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London that
challenged a concept that had prevailed for four
decades about the composition of the Earth’s inner
core. That paper began a logical progression of
understanding that has resulted in a fundamentally
different understanding of the deep interior of the
Earth. Beginning in 1992, Herndon set forth the
underlying foundations for his concept of planetary
nuclear fission reactors, first for the giant planets,
then for the Earth. The August 2002 issue of Discover
Magazine featured his work as the cover story.
Herndon’s most recent paper, published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in
March 2003, provides strong evidence for the existence
of a nuclear fission reactor at the center of the
Earth and indicates that the end of the georeactor
lifetime is approaching. J. Marvin Herndon was
profiled in the November 2003 issue of Current
Biography Magazine.
____________________________________________________
Toshihide "Tosh" Ushino, CHP
Product Development Manager
Global Dosimetry Solutions,Inc.
3300 Hyland Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: (800) 548-5100 x2413
Email:tushino@globaldosimetry.com
http://globaldosimetry.com/
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