CAL RAD FORUM'S ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE, November 18-19, 1999

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October 27, 1999

To:     Radsafe
From:   Alan Pasternak, Technical Director, California Radioactive Materials    
        Management Forum

Cal Rad Forum's Annual Fall Conference will take place Thursday and Friday, 
November 18-19, 1999 at the Hyatt Islandia Hotel in San Diego. 

The formal program of speakers and panels is scheduled for Friday. On 
Thursday afternoon, there will be a tour of the fusion energy research 
facility at the General Atomics Company in La Jolla.

Friday's program includes presentations on applications of radioactive 
materials; activities of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the 
Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR VII); management and treatment 
of low-level radioactive wastes and mixed wastes; current legal and political 
issues affecting the development of new disposal facilities for low-level 
waste, including the proposed Ward Valley facility; and problems affecting 
the ability of organizations that use radioactive materials in the 
Southwestern Compact region to continue to export low-level waste to other 
states for disposal in the near term.

A partial list of speakers and panelists includes Congressman Brian Bilbray 
of San Diego (if Congress has recessed); Dr. Myron Pollycove, Emeritus at 
UCSF and Medical Fellow at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Dr. 
Kenneth Mossman of Arizona State University; Dr. Philip Williams of the 
Tritium Labelling Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Don 
Womeldorf, Executive Director of the Southwestern Compact Commission; 
Katherine Haynes, Executive Director of the Southeast Compact Commission; Dr. 
Martin Nusynowitz, University of Texas Medical Branch and Chairman of 
Organizations United; Reed Wilcox of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 
Pasadena; and Dwayne Weigel of the U.S. General Accounting Office.

To register for the conference and for information concerning conference 
arrangements, please call Mrs. Betsy Hite, Cal Rad's Administrative Director 
at (916) 688-0742.

For information about the conference program, please call Alan Pasternak at 
(925) 283-5210.

Details about Cal Rad's Annual Fall Conference are now posted on our web site 
at <http://www.calradforum.org>. Updates will also be posted.
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