Cal Rad Forum's Fifteenth Annual Fall Conference

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To:		RADSAFE
From:	Alan Pasternak, Technical Director, Cal Rad Forum

The Fifteenth Annual Fall Conference of the California Radioactive Materials
Management Forum will be held Thursday and Friday, November 13-14, 1997 at
the Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California. For information about
registration and other conference arrangements, please call Cal Rad's
Administrative Director Betsy Hite at (916) 687-8701.

Information about the Conference can be found at a link on Cal Rad Forum's
home page at <http://www.calradforum.org>.

The Conference Theme is "Ward Valley: Political Hostage or Bellwether for
Safe Disposal."

The Conference program includes the following topics and speakers:

Keynote: George Dunn, Chief of Staff to California Governor Pete Wilson

Proposed Ward Valley LLRW Disposal Facility and Southwestern Compact Status:
Don Womeldorf, Executive Director, Southwestern Compact Commission
James Shaffner, Ward Valley Project manager for US Ecology, Inc.
Carl Lischeske, Low-Level Waste Program Manager, California Department of
Health Services.

Professor Ron Kathren of Washington State University, Tri-Cities will discuss
the life and work of Merrill Eisenbud.

Theodore Rockwell, Vice President of Radiation Science and Health: "RSH:
Bringing Good Science to Radiation Policy."

Professor Otto Raabe, University of California at Davis and President of the
Health Physics Society and
Myron Pollycove, MD, Medical Fellow, USNRC will discuss the recent UCLA
report on health effects in workers at the Rocketdyne Santa Susana facility.

Tom Mates of Sterigenics Corporation will speak on food irradiation.

Dr. A. David Rossin, Dr. Bertram Wolfe, Dr. Chauncey Starr, will discuss the
Future and Necessity of Nuclear Energy. The panel moderator is Dr. Robert J.
Budnitz, President Future Resources Associates, Inc.

Paul Lavely, RSO at the University of California, Berkeley will discuss risk
perception.

William Kahrl, former Op-Ed editor of The Sacramento Bee: "Why Bad Things
Happen to Good Radwaste 'Dumps.'"  

For questions about the conference program, please call Alan Pasternak at 
(510) 283-5210.