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Accelerator
Radiation Safety Newsletter |
| Second Quarter 2007 / Volume 16, Number 2 |
An Official Publication of the Health Physics Society's Accelerator Section |
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In this issue Also of interest • 2008
Midyear & School Website |
FROM
THE OFFICERS The President's
Message The 2008 midyear meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) is beginning to fall into place. Kevin Nelson, the HPS President-Elect, called recently to congratulate the section on its progress toward organizing the 2008 midyear. He said, "This is the most organized midyear I have ever been associated with or heard of. If this midyear isn’t well attended, it will not be because of lack of hard work on the part of the section." read more
The President-Elect's
Message We're all looking forward to this summer's 2007 annual Health Physics Society (HPS) meeting in Portland, Oregon. The Accelerator Section's technical session will be on Wednesday morning, July 10. The HPS Awards Committee approved our Morgan Lecturer nominee, Dr. Anthony H. Sullivan. The title of his talk will be "Radiation Safety around High-Energy Particle Accelerators (as seen with the benefit of hindsight)." Due to health reasons, Dr. Sullivan will not be able to travel to the meeting. Dr. Ralph Thomas has kindly agreed to present Dr. Sullivan's talk. read more The
Editor's
Message
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| OFFICERS President: Scott Walker, Los Alamos National Lab President-Elect: Kamran Vaziri, Fermi National Accelerator Lab Past President: Lorraine Marceau-Day, Louisiana State University Secretary: Ed Lessard, Brookhaven National Lab Treasurer: Marcia Torres, Argonne National Lab Newsletter Editor: Linnea Wahl, Berkeley National Lab Directors: Erik Abkemeier, Naval Sea Systems Command Richard Brey, Idaho State University Don Gregory, Oak Ridge National Lab Mike Sandvig, Idaho National Lab Doug Wells, Idaho State University Gary Zeman, Argonne National Lab |
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2008
Professional Development School Progresses If you've
been watching Health Physics News,
the official newsletter of the Health Physics Society, you may have
seen our articles advertising the 2008 professional development school,
"Topics in Accelerator Health Physics." In the April issue, we got
front page billing, as the newsletter explored just what it takes to
put together a school. In the June issue, we told you all about the
silent auction of Dr. Ralph Thomas's rare books that will be held to
fund a scholarship to the school." 
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News from
Fermi National Accelerator Lab News from the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Lab Don Gregory The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has just completed its second major maintenance period since the start of production operations with beam on target. The first maintenance period dealt with some minor upgrades and corrections needed for more reliable operations, but the latest maintenance period involved significant changes to high-loss areas and consequently higher doses to workers. Predicting doses for first-time maintenance tasks is difficult since there is no "history" (recorded doses for similar tasks performed during previous outages) to refer to. This time I used a straight-forward dose estimating process and ended up with an embarrassingly conservative estimate. read more
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