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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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