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RE: High School Level Radiation Education Curriculum?
Hi David,
Interesting case and issues in your email. I have been involved in similar
issues here at UCHSC over hazardous waste compliance and violations. I have
also presented classes in the past to high school students on the general
topic of what is radiation, uses etc,.
I would be happy to help and/or review any materials you develop. I wrote
the university Rad training program now in use here using some of the DOE
materials for their RCT personnel and altering and adding to it to meet a
university rad program needs.
Sincerely,
Sharyn Baker
Instructor
Health and Safety Division
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado
phone: (303) 315-8003
email: sharyn.baker@uchsc.edu
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> From: David W Lee
> Reply To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 3:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: High School Level Radiation Education Curriculum?
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> Dear Radsafers:
>
> I am posting this summary of a message I received here at Los
> Alamos
> National Laboratory, from a non-RADSAFE member, in the hope that some
> RADSAFERS
> may have helpful expertise/knowledge regarding this issue.
>
> In the 1995-96 time frame, LANL was taken to court by a local
> Santa
> Fe-based anti-nuclear group called the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear
> Safety
> (CCNS)--a group heavily funded by Jane Fonda/Ted Turner. The outcome of
> this
> case was that LANL signed a consent degree in January 1997. The text of
> this
> consent decree apparently did NOT explicitly require LANL to develop a
> high
> school radiation education curriculum. However, the CCNS lawyers now feel
> that
> LANL had an implied obligation to develop such a curriculum and make it
> available to local high schools, etc.
>
> Accordingly, the CCNS now wants the judge to rule in their favor
> (that
> LANL must develop such a curriculum) and further seeks to make the judge
> specify that any curriculum developed by LANL must use the radiation
> information from the NEWNET project. COMMENT: I do not know anything
> about
> the NEWNET project, but I suspect that since the CCNS is recommending it,
> that
> this project may contain either misleading or biased radiation information
> that
> is more closely aligned with CCNS's anti-nuclear viewpoint.
>
> Given the possibility that LANL may be told to develop a
> high-school
> level radiation education curriculum, do any RADSAFERS know of any such
> curricula currently in existence, endorsed or developed by say the Health
> Physics Society, the American Nuclear Society, DOE, or the American
> Science
> Teachers Association, etc., or any other reputable organization? The
> thought
> is to possibly find an already developed curriculum and either modify it
> or
> piggyback information on it possibly to the point of having a module the
> would
> show local schools how to use the NEWNET data. As you can surmise, LANL
> is
> trying to prepare itself to have to develop such a curriculum under court
> consent decree (worst case scenario), and should that turn out to be the
> case,
> LANL ought to do a quality job in developing an accurate, unbiased
> curriculum.
>
> The suggestions of any RADSAFER knowledgeable in this regard are
> sincerely solicited. All replies to RADSAFE concerning this message will
> be
> forwarded to the LANL contacts concerned with this issue. These contacts
> are
> Andy Andrews (andrews@lanl.gov) and Jean Dewart (dewart@lanl.gov).
>
> Thank-you in advance for your help. Best regards David
>
> DAVID W. LEE
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> Radiation Protection Services, ESH-12
> X-Ray/Source Control Team Leader
> PO Box 1663, MS K483
> Los Alamos, NM 87545
> PH: (505) 667-8085
> FAX: (505) 667-9726
> lee_david_w@lanl.gov
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> <html><div>Dear Radsafers:</div>
> <br>
> <div><x-tab> </x-tab>I am
> posting this summary of a message I received here at Los Alamos National
> Laboratory, from a non-RADSAFE member, in the hope that some RADSAFERS
> may have helpful expertise/knowledge regarding this issue.</div>
> <br>
> <div><x-tab> </x-tab>In
> the 1995-96 time frame, LANL was taken to court by a local Santa Fe-based
> anti-nuclear group called the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
> (CCNS)--a group heavily funded by Jane Fonda/Ted Turner. The
> outcome of this case was that LANL signed a consent degree in January
> 1997. The text of this consent decree apparently did NOT explicitly
> require LANL to develop a high school radiation education
> curriculum. However, the CCNS lawyers now feel that LANL had an
> implied obligation to develop such a curriculum and make it available to
> local high schools, etc.</div>
> <br>
> <div><x-tab> </x-tab>Accord
> ingly,
> the CCNS now wants the judge to rule in their favor (that LANL must
> develop such a curriculum) and further seeks to make the judge specify
> that any curriculum developed by LANL must use the radiation information
> from the NEWNET project. COMMENT: I do not know anything
> about the NEWNET project, but I suspect that since the CCNS is
> recommending it, that this project may contain either misleading or
> biased radiation information that is more closely aligned with CCNS's
> anti-nuclear viewpoint.</div>
> <br>
> <div><x-tab> </x-tab>Given
> the possibility that LANL may be told to develop a high-school level
> radiation education curriculum, do any RADSAFERS know of any such
> curricula currently in existence, endorsed or developed by say the Health
> Physics Society, the American Nuclear Society, DOE, or the American
> Science Teachers Association, etc., or any other reputable
> organization? The thought is to possibly find an already developed
> curriculum and either modify it or piggyback information on it possibly
> to the point of having a module the would show local schools how to use
> the NEWNET data. As you can surmise, LANL is trying to prepare
> itself to have to develop such a curriculum under court consent decree
> (worst case scenario), and should that turn out to be the case, LANL
> ought to do a quality job in developing an accurate, unbiased
> curriculum.</div>
> <br>
> <div><x-tab> </x-tab>The
> suggestions of any RADSAFER knowledgeable in this regard are sincerely
> solicited. All replies to RADSAFE concerning this message will be
> forwarded to the LANL contacts concerned with this issue. These
> contacts are Andy Andrews (andrews@lanl.gov) and Jean Dewart
> (dewart@lanl.gov).</div>
> <br>
> <x-tab> </x-tab>Thank-you
> in advance for your help. Best regards David
> <br>
>
> <br>
> <font size=3>DAVID W. LEE<br>
> Los Alamos National Laboratory<br>
> Radiation Protection Services, ESH-12<br>
> X-Ray/Source Control Team Leader<br>
> PO Box 1663, MS K483<br>
> Los Alamos, NM 87545<br>
> PH: (505) 667-8085<br>
> FAX: (505) 667-9726<br>
> lee_david_w@lanl.gov<br>
> </font></html>
>
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