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Baltimore-Washington Chapter HPS Annual Affiliates Meeting
Baltimore Washington Chapter Health Physics Society Technical Symposium,
Annual Meeting, and Affiliates Recognition
May 27, 1999 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg,
Maryland
PROGRAM
Cindy Boggs, Argonne National Laboratory: "Health and Safety Considerations
for U.S. Monitors in the Russian Transparency Program"
Thomas Kiess, National Research Council: "Transuranic Waste Bound for the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Characterization and Packaging Challenges"
Tyrone Naquin, U.S. Navy: ".Am Operational Tour in the Navy Health Physics
Community and Process"
Keynote Speaker: Bernard Cohen: "Radon Ecological Survey"
Affiliates exhibits and presentations
Business meeting
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BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON CHAPTER OF THE HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY
May 27, 1999
GENERAL INFORMATION
LOCATION
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Administration Building
(101), Green Auditorium, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
REGISTRATION
Registration begins at 0830. The registration fee is $40 and includes coffee
breaks, lunch, and workshop materials. Please complete and return the
attached registration form and payment by Monday, May 17. Request for
cancellation or refund must be submitted, in writing, to Lori Phillips by
this date.
TRANSPORTATION
For attendees who will be arriving by air at Baltimore-Washington
International, Ronald Reagan Washington National, or Dulles International
Airports, the hotel is accessible by using Super Shuttle at 1-800-258-3826.
Gaithersburg also is accessible by Metrorail from Washington National
Airport. Take the Yellow Line train marked "Mt. Vernon Square" to "Gallery
Place and transfer to a Red Line train marked "Shady Grove" to the Shady
Grove station. The time from National to Gaithersburg is about 55 minutes.
Cabs are available from the Shady Grove metro to the hotel.
If you plan to drive, Gaithersburg is located about 25 miles northwest of
Washington, DC, via Interstate Rt. 270 north. To reach NIST take Exit 10, Rt.
117 west, Clopper Road. At the first light on Clopper Road, turn left onto
the NIST grounds. Follow the signs to the Administration Building.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Janna Shupe NIST Telephone: 301/975-5804 e-mail:
janna.shupe@nist.gov
REGISTRATION INFORMATION Lori Phillips Buckland NIST Telephone: 301/975-4513
Fax: 301/948-2067 e-mail: lori.phillips@nist.gov
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BWC OF THE HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY
May 27, 1999 REGISTRATION FORM
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Please return this form by Monday, May 17 to:
Office of the Comptroller
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 5202
Bldg. 101, Rm. A807
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-5202
Or Fax/email to: Lori Phillips Buckland, (301) 948-2067,
lori.phillips@nist.gov
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ANNUAL AFFILIATES MEETING
BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON CHAPTER
HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND
MAY 27, 1999
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1999:
Registration begins at 0830 in the Administration Building (101).
Registration fee is $40.00 and includes coffee breaks, lunch, and materials.
HEALTH AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS FOR U.S. MONITORS IN THE RUSSIAN
TRANSPARENCY PROGRAM. C. J. Boggs,* (Argonne National Laboratory, Germantown,
MD 20874-5204).
In 1993, the United States and Russia signed an agreement permitting the
United States to purchase highly enriched uranium removed from Russian
nuclear weapon components. Under that agreement, the U.S. Department of
Energy assigns U.S. personnel to monitor activities at four nuclear
facilities in Russia where the uranium is processed. These U.S. monitors are
required to submit both pre- and post-visit urine samples and to wear both
U.S. and Russian dosimetry badges while in the facilities. While on site, the
monitors must follow the health and safety policies and procedures of the
individual Russian facilities. An overview of Russian health physics
practices will be presented.
*Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for
Nuclear Energy, under contract W-31-109-Eng-38.
TRANSURANIC WASTE BOUND FOR THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT: CHARACTERIZATION
AND PACKAGING CHALLENGES. Thomas E. Kiess, (National Research Council,
Washington, DC).
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a series of excavations in a
Permian-age bedded salt formation that as of March of this year is an
operational geologic repository for disposal of U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) transuranic (TRU) radioactive waste. The National Research Council
(NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of
Engineering (NAE), and Institute of Medicine (IOM), a collection of
institutions often referred to as the Academy, began a WIPP Committee study
in 1978 that has continued to the present. This presentation briefly
summarizes the history of WIPP and of the Academy WIPP Committee reports, and
ends with an overview of the health physics-related technical issues that are
under consideration by the current WIPP Committee. In particular,
significant restrictions on the amount of plutonium contained within each
waste drum are derived from a radiolytic hydrogen gas generation model for
alpha-emitting actinides co-disposed with organic material. These
restrictions provide a challenge to characterization and packaging operations
for WIPP-bound TRU waste at DOE sites.
AN OPERATIONAL TOUR IN THE NAVY HEALTH PHYSICS COMMUNITY AND A PROCESS (RCD).
Tyrone Naquin, (Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, MD).
RCD is the Navy acronym for Reactor Compartment Disposal and focuses on my
last assignment at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. The intent is
to discuss my responsibilities in a Naval Nuclear Shipyard, highlight the
difficult issues, and then to describe a process that's done only at that
Shipyard. Its probably more informational and entertaining than deeply
educational, but I've got some great pictures of the process.
METHODS TO DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE WITH THE ALARA REQUIREMENT FOR
DECOMMISSIONING. S. A. McGuire, (U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555).
The NRC regulations on license termination require that residual
radioactivity must be reduced to levels that are as low as reasonably
achievable (ALARA) in addition to meeting the specified dose limit. One
acceptable method to demonstrate ALARA was described in draft Regulatory
Guide DG-4006, "Demonstrating Compliance with the Radiological Criteria for
License Termination." That method was a quantitative comparison of the costs
of an additional remediation action compared to the benefit due to dose
reduction. The benefit in dose reduction is calculated using the same dose
modeling as was used to show compliance with the dose limit. The method
described in the guide is not the only acceptable method, however.
Qualitative methods can also be used. However, the quantitative method is
quite easy to use and has the advantage of being less subjective. The ease
of use of the guide method and the advantage of having a qualitative method
are illustrated by comparing the method in the guide with the qualitative
method presented in a recently-submitted licensee decommissioning plan.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 27, 1999:
INVITED SPEAKER:
RADON ECOLOGICAL STUDY. Bernard L. Cohen, (Department of Physics, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260).
Professor Cohen will discuss his radon ecological studies (for example,
Health Phys. 60:631-642; 1991 and Health Phys. 68:157-174; 1995) and address
published criticisms of it.
The annual business meeting of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Health
Physics Society will follow Professor Cohen's talk and discussion thereof.
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