Health Physics Society Journal

On the cover: A joint Russian-American cruise on the RV Okean sampled tritium, 239Pu and 240Pu in the Bering and Chukchi Seas in the summer of 1993. See article by E. R. Landa et al. on page 668 for more information.

Contents of Volume 77, No. 6, December 1999

AWARDS

1999 Elda E. Anderson Award—Glenn Sturchio Citation by Joe Stencel

1999 Health Physics Society Fellow Members and Student Awards

1999 William B. McAdams Outstanding Service Award—Bryce L. Rich Citation by Edward F. Maher

1999 National Registry of Radiation Protection Technologists Arthur F. Humm, Jr., Memorial Award—Paul Lovendale Citation by Don W. Marshall

NEWS ON THE NET

Putting Your Radiation Safety Office Data on the Web — Melissa Woo

TECHNOLOGY MONITOR

SAIC's Multifunction Meter — Ken Kasper

REVIEW PAPERS

Review and Critical Analysis of Available In Vitro Dissolution Tests — E. Ansoborlo, M. H. Hengé-Napoli, V. Chazel, R. Gibert, and R. A. Guilmette

PAPERS

Radiological Protective Measures in Highly Industrialized Areas: Do Existing Intervention Levels Apply? — Noël Pauwels, Frank Hardeman, and Karel Soudan

Model Validation for External Doses Due to Environmental Contaminations by the Chernobyl Accident — Vladislav Golikov, Michael Balonov, Viktor Erkin, and Peter Jacob

Calculations of Background Beta-Gamma Radiation Dose through Geologic Time — P. Andrew Karam and Stephen A. Leslie

Tritium and Plutonium in Waters from the Bering and Chukchi Seas — Edward R. Landa, Donna M. Beals, Justin E. Halverson, Robert L. Michel, and Gregory R. Cefus

Radiostrontium in the Savannah River Site Environment — W. H. Carlton, C. E. Murphy, Jr., G. T. Jannik, and A. A. Simpkins

Assessment of Radionuclide Contents in Food in Hong Kong — K. N. Yu and S. Y. Mao

Indoor Radon in the Region of Brussels — F. Tondeur, I. Gerardy, D. Christiaens, S. Hallez, and J. M. Flemal

Suitability of Air Sampling Locations Downstream of Bends and Static Mixing Elements — Andrew R. McFarland, Rajiv Gupta, and N. K. Anand

A Lifelong, Wide-Range Radiation Biodosimeter: Erythrocytes with Transferrin Receptors — J. K. Gong, C. A. Glomski, and Y. Guo

NOTES

Uptake and Elimination of ¹³⁷Cs by Climbing Perch (Anabus Testudineus) — M. A. Malek

CORRESPONDENCE

An Alternative to Monte Carlo in Determining Release Criteria for Patients Administered Radioactive Material — Timothy K. Johnson and Todd Barnhart

Response to Johnson and Barnhart — Jeffry A. Siegel, Richard B. Sparks, and Richard L. Wahl

BOOK REVIEWS

The Health Physics Solutions Manual: Introduction to Health Physics Problems Made Easy — Reviewed by K. J. Kearfott

Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators—Workshop Proceedings, Mito, Japan, 13-15 October 1998 — Reviewed by Michael T. Ryan

Solid State Dosimetry — Reviewed by Michael T. Ryan

OTHER CONTENT

In Memoriam—Harold O. Wyckoff
Citation by Lauriston S. Taylor

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