NCCHPS 21 JAN Meeting

["Jack H. Elliott" <jackelliott@home.com>]

January Meeting! Try using  MAPQUEST - www.mapquest.com/ for directions to the
meeting
Next Meeting: January 21, 1999 
Where:        H's Lordships           199 Seawall Dr
              Berkeley, CA             (510) 843-2733
Dinner Reservations due by 1/15/99
RSVP: John Pasinosky    650.354.7900
john.pasinosky@roche.com
$20 pre-reserved/ $25 at door

Cash Bar happy hour at 6:30 p.m.  Dinner served at 7:30 p.m.  Dinner will be a
Greek salad and carrot cake for dessert with a choice of either: (1) 10 oz. New
York Steak topped with mushroom caps and maitre d' butter with red potatoes, or
(2)  Grilled Swordfish served with lemon pepper buerre blanc and rice pilaf, or
(3) Vegetarian dinner.

Our guest speaker will be our own Dr. Radoslav Radev, LLNL  His talk is entitled
"Tests of Sourceless Efficiency Calibration of In Situ/Underwater Detector
System with ISOCS Calibration Software" or for short "Efficiency calibration of
gamma detector without the use of radioactive source"

Radoslav Radev works at Special Projects Division at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.  He is involved in basic and applied research and development
projects that relate to radiation health and safety issues.  Dr. Radev works on
several projects of the Cooperative Thread Reduction program and Safe and Secure
Dismantlement program with the republics of
former Soviet Union.

Prior to joining LLNL, Radev worked at UC Berkeley, where he provided health
physics support to various campus departments.  Radoslav Radev also has
experience in  testing, calibration and remote operation of astrophysical
satellite at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at UC Berkeley.  As
a scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE) in
Sofia, Bulgaria, Radoslav Radev was responsible for the neutron spectroscopic
measurements for integral benchmark experiments for fusion reactor blanket
materials.  He was active participant in fusion neutronics collaboration and
intercomparisons between leading research centers in former USSR, Czechoslovakia
and East Germany.

Radoslav Radev managed the experimental portion of a fusion neutronics research
contract between IAEA and INRNE and also taught undergraduate-level physics at
the College for Railway Engineers in Sofia, Bulgaria. His Ph.D. degree in
Nuclear Physics is from the Institute for Nuclear  Research, Moscow, Russia, and
his MS in Nuclear Physics is from Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

-- 
Jack H. Elliott
Mailto:Jack@ElliottMail.com
925  828-5225
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