Re: Bio David Lochbaum, UCS

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 09:39 PM 10/4/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Dave Lochbaum
>Nuclear Safety Engineer
>Union of Concerned Scientists
>
>Experience Summary
>
>10/96 to date   Nuclear Safety Engineer, Union of Concerned Scientists
>11/87 to 09/96  Senior Consultant, Enercon Services, Inc.
>03/87 to 08/87  System Engineer, General Technical Services
>08/83 to 02/87  Senior Engineer, Enercon Services, Inc.
>10/81 to 08/83  Reactor Engineer / Shift Technical Advisor, Tennessee Valley 
>Authority
>06/81 to 10/81  BWR Instructor, General Electric Company
>01/80 to 06/81  Reactor Engineer / Shift Technical Advisor, Tennessee Valley 
>Authority
>06/79 to 12/79  Junior Engineer, Georgia Power Company
>
>Education
>June 1979   Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering, The University of 
>Tennessee at Knoxville
>May 1980    Certification, Interim Shift Technical Advisor, TVA Browns Ferry 
>Nuclear Plant
>April 1982  Certification, Shift Technical Advisor, TVA Browns Ferry Nuclear 
>Plant
>
>Professional Affiliations
>Member, American Nuclear Society (since 1978).

OK, let's go back to the original subject, i.e., this person being quoted
by NPR regarding health effects of radiation exposure. Exactly where in the
resume is the part about becoming knowledgeable about health physics?
Again, the only credential that mattered to NPR appears to be the UCS
affiliation. And it doesn't seem to speak well for either party that he was
willing to provide information that is outside his expertise and that NPR
didn't care to find a spokesperson with stronger credentials.

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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu
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