Cal Rad Spring Conference, May 13-14, 1999

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May 4, 1999

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

Subj.:	Cal Rad Forum's Annual Spring Conference, Thursday and Friday, May 
13-			14, 1999


The California Radioactive Materials Management Forum's Annual Spring 
Conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, May 13-14, 1999 at the 
Crown-Plaza Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. The conference will 
offer presentations by experts on topics including the safe management, 
treatment, and disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) in the 
Southwestern Compact region (California, Arizona, North Dakota, and South 
Dakota) in both the near term and long term, implementation of the federal 
Low-Level Waste Policy Act in other regions of the country and implications 
for the Southwestern compact region, beneficial uses of radiation, and a DOE 
research program on biologicial effects of low-dose radiation.

Information about the conference program and arrangements can be found on Cal 
Rad's web site at <http://www.calradforum.org>.

Field Trip Thursday Afternoon, May 13. 
The conference includes a tour of the UCLA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) 
Center on Thursday afternoon.

Conference Program Friday, May 14

Some of the topics and speakers on the conference program are,

Presentations about available LLRW processing and treatment services: a panel 
organized by Cal Rad Board member Tom Gray of Thomas Gray & Associates and 
featuring representative of six vendors;

An update by Don Womeldorf, Executive Director of the Southwestern Compact 
Commission on the Commission's activities including its support for Cal Rad's 
request to the U.S. Department of Energy for interim access to DOE's disposal 
facilities;

Discussions on the status of and prospects for the proposed Ward Valley 
project and near-term alternatives and implementation of the Low-Level 
Radioactive Waste Policy Act in other regions of the country by Ed Fuller, 
Chairman of Californians for Ward Valley and former President of the American 
Nuclear Society; Jack Barraclough, State Representative from Idaho; and Alan 
Pasternak, Cal Rad Technical Director.

A presentation by Carleton Roberts, State of South Carolina Department of 
Health and Environmental Control, on the outlook for availability of the 
Barnwell disposal facility;

A presentation by Jennifer Hernandez of Beveridge & Diamond, Cal Rad's 
attorney, on implications of the recent order and injunction issued by the 
U.S. District Court in Nebraska addressing allegations of bad faith by the 
State of Nebraska in its LLRW process;

Presentations by Professor Frederick Hawthorne of UCLA and Linden Blue, Vice 
President of General Atomics on progress in boron neutron capture therapy 
(BNCT), a technique for treating brain tumors ;

A presentation by Dr. Marvin Frazier of the U.S. Department of Energy's 
Office of Research on DOE's new, multi-year research program on the 
biological effects of low dose ionizing radiation,

The luncheon on Friday includes a special presentation to honor the memory of 
Professor Glenn T. Seaborg with a talk by his son David Seaborg: "Life With 
My Father: Growing Up in the Nuclear Age."

Please call me at (925) 283-5210 if you have any questions about the 
conference program or Betsy Hite, Cal Rad's Administrative Director, for 
information on conference and hotel arrangements. Her phone number is (916) 
688-0742


Watch Our Website

Speakers and topics and the conference agenda will be posted on Cal Rad 
Forum's web site at <http://www.calradforum.org>.


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