NCCHPS 22Jan Meeting

["Jack H. Elliott" <elliottj@pacbell.net>]

******* JANUARY 22 NCCHPS DINNER MEETING *******
     
     The NCCHPS is pleased to announce its January 1998 dinner meeting.  
     The program will feature a presentation by Mike Singh of LLNL
entitled 
     "National Ignition Facility (NIF):  A Multi- Megajoule Photon
Source 
     for Doing Interesting Research in Fusion Energy and Basic
Sciences."
     
     Please bring a friend and join us for dinner and professional 
     enrichment at Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley.
     
     DATE:  Thursday, January 22, 1998
     
     DIRECTIONS:  Take I-80 to University Avenue heading East. 
Spenger's 
     is at 919 4th Street, north of the overpass. Parking is free at the 
     restaurant.
     
     SCHEDULE: 6:00 - Cocktails (no host bar), 7:00 - Dinner, 
     8:00 - Presentation by Mike Singh.
     
     MENU:  Please indicate your meal choice when responding:
     A = Baked Cornish Hen,  B = Sirloin Tips, or C = Red Snapper.  
     
     Each meal choice includes a French roll, salad, dessert and
beverage.  
     
     Price of the meal including tax and service charge is $20.00, 
     or $25.00 for late reservation or walk-ins.
       
     RESERVATIONS (e-mailed, telephoned, or mailed) must be received by 
     Radoslav Radev by Monday, January 19.  Contact Radoslav at   
     rado@uclink2.berkeley.edu   You can mail your check to Radoslav
Radev, 
     3430 Saint Mary's Road, Lafayette, CA 94549. 
     
     PREVIEW OF MIKE SINGH'S PRESENTATION:    The National Ignition 
     Facility (NIF) is a US. Department of Energy inertial confinement 
     laser fusion facility currently under construction at the Lawrence 
     Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The NIF mission is to achieve 
     inertial confinement fusion ignition, access physical conditions in 
     matter of interest to weapons physics, contribute to the
development 
     of inertial fusion for electrical power production, and to support 
     basic science and technology. To achieve this mission, the facility 
     will require a laser with an output pulse energy of 1.8 MJ and
output 
     pulse power of 500 TW. For a D-T target, it can produce up to 8 x 
     10^18 neutrons per shot. NIF can reproduce the conditions of
several 
     types of stars and plasmas to simulate the conditions that surround 
     neutron stars and black holes. NIF experiments will more
effectively 
     complement future measurements of emissions from astronomical
objects 
     and greatly expand our knowledge of the cosmos This talk will focus
on 
     some interesting NIF applications and radiation protection systems 
     including shielding, selection of low activation materials (e.g., 
     target and construction materials), tritium and gaseous
radioactivity 
     controls, effluents and potential on- and off-site dose impacts.
          
     Mike Singh started his scientific career at LLNL in 1972 as a
health 
     physicist after finishing MS degree in Nuclear Engineering at the 
     University of California at Berkeley. Later on he did additional 
     graduate studies in the Medical Physics Department at UC Berkeley. 
     Mike has authored/co-authored over 60 scientific journal and 
     professional societies meeting papers on many diverse topics
including 
     radiation protection and shielding, plasma physics, radiation 
     transport, photoconductive diodes, neutron streak camera, UV
radiation 
     effects, magnetic and inertial fusion devices and reactor concepts, 
     accelerator radiation safety, fission reactors, solid state
dosimetry 
     and instrumentation, electron beams, tritium quality factor,
neutron 
     and space radiation effects on materials, fast ignition, etc. He 
     performed radiological analyses for the design of rotating target 
     neutron sources, atomic vapor laser isotope separation 
     facilities/plant, electron and charged particle accelerators,
breeder 
     reactors (Fermi Accelerator) studies, magnetic fusion test reactor, 
     and Shiva and Nova laser facilities. Currently he is supporting the 
     inertial confinement fusion experiments including the design of the 
     National Ignition Facility (NIF). Mike serves on a number of LLNL 
     senior-level scientific and safety advisory committees. He also
serves 
     as a panel member on Part II of the ABHP certification exam. 
-- 
Jack H. Elliott
Mailto:Jack@ElliottMail.com
510  828-5225