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MINUTES OF THE
ISOTOPE and RADIATION MEETING
AMERICAN
NUCLEAR SOCIETY
Sunday 9 November
2008,
Grand Sierra
Resort and Casino, Room 153
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Members
Present: Greg
Downing (Chair), Sam Glover (Secretary), Jack Brenizer, Sheldon Landsberger,
George Miley. Quorum not present.
Others
Present: C. Castano, J. Bowie, E. Fernandes, R. Zeisler, J. Metzger, J.
Baciak, R. Hayes
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& 2. Call to Order: Chair Greg Downing called the meeting to order at 3:00
pm and asked those present to introduce themselves.
3. Approval of
Previous minutes: The minutes of the June 2008 meeting were distributed
and discussed. Greg Downing agreed to revise and send to the committee for
electronic approval.
4A. Young Members Committee Presentation: No YMC presentation for funding was
made. Later during the program committee meeting, the YMC discussed with IRD
the need to identify sessions and 100 word summaries requested from the various
divisions in support of the embedded topical meeting at the Winter 2009
Washington D C.
4B.
Student support: Students have provided the Chair with a packet. IRD previously approved $750
for student support for Florida meeting (still to be allocated).
5.
Treasurers Report:
Ralph was not present - emailed report for 2007 and 2008 through Sept were submitted.
6.
IRD Election Slate:
Past chair Dick Lindstrom is preparing the new candidate slate. Current
suggestions:
Vice-Chair: Steve LaMont
Secretary: Sam Glover continues for
2009
Executive Committee: Harari, Metzger,
George Miley, Nicholas Spyrou
Interest
in serving was also expressed by Jennifer
5.
Division Committee Reports:
a.
Nominations: Discussed above
b.
Honors and Awards: Jack Brenizer reported on honors and awards. The Vogt
and IRD award will be reviewed in February by the IRD awards committee.
c.
Newsletter and Website: No action since the last newsletter in the summer
2008. Still need to get last 3 years on the website. Discussion occurred that
IRD may need a new webmaster. Sheldon Landsberger indicated that he may be able
to provide support for hosting the IRD website. Further discussion also
occurred that all the sessions supported by IRD should be listed on the
website.
d. Fellows: Chair reported that
a lot of discussion occurred at the President's meeting regarding industrial vs
academic fellows. IRD may want to increase focus on industrial members. BMD/IRD
should discuss nominations and make sure our packets support the award description
(discussion occurred later at the Professional Divisions Committee regarding
this topic)
6.
Society Committees
a. Professional Division Metrics: - Metrics not
available for discussion. They also were not provided at the NPC meeting
(attended by Sam Glover for Greg Downing).
b. Program:
c. 2010 RSPD topical in Las Vegas. Robert Hayes discussed that BMD and IRD needed to provide co-technical
chairs for the conference. He also requested that BMD and IRD provide a 'short
term' loan to the Local Section ($5k to $10k each) to help with the $18,000
down payment required by the hotel. This commitment needs to be done by the
end of December. No details were provided. Limited details of some proposed
sessions were provided. IRD must move aggressively if technical support for
this program is to be considered. BMD provided comment that it had withdrawn
support for the RSPD topical.
7.
Individual Reports on Special Projects:
Neutron
Activation short Course, hosted by Rolf Zeisler, Dick Lindstrom and Dennis James
will be held Thursday p.m. at the Anaheim Conference discussed.
Over view of joint committee: - Kenan Ünlü
gave a report of the work of the Joint BMD and IRD committee meeting. He
described the very first topical meeting held at the Anaheim meeting, the
sessions to be held at the Reno National Winter Meeting, and asked that session
summaries be submitted for the June 2009 in Atlanta meeting. He also
described the success and increased attendances at the Safeguards. Finally Sam
Glover informed the committee that the announcement for the April 2009 MARC
meeting was up on the website and a few abstracts had been submitted for the
meeting.
8.
New Business
Sam Glover mentioned that he would seek
an email vote from IRD for support for student travel to the MARC VIII
conference.
George Miley discussed the possibility
of leading a new position statement regarding neutron sources
9.
Old Business
No
actions
10.
Adjourn: Sam Glover moved that the meeting be adjourned. Jack Brenizer seconded
the motion. The motion was unanimously passed and the meeting adjourned at
4:30.
Respectfully
submitted,
Sam Glover, Secretary
ANS Isotopes and Radiation Committee
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MINUTES OF THE
ISOTOPE and RADIATION MEETING
AMERICAN
NUCLEAR SOCIETY
Sunday 8 June
2008,
Exhibit Hall,
Room E, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA
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Members
Present:
Dick
Lindstrom (Chairman), Greg Downing (Vice Chairman), Ralph Butler (Treasurer), Steven
Biegalski, Jack Brenizer, Elisabete Fernandes, Marc Garland, Lin-Wen Hu, Dennis
James, Stephen Lamont, Kenan Ünlü, Rolf Zeisler
1. Call to Order: Chair Dick Lindstrom called the meeting to order at 4:30 pm.
Dick then asked all present to introduce themselves.
Young
Members Committee Presentation: They thanked the committee for the
financial support of 4 student awards in IRD's name that attended the meeting
held at TAMU (There were a total of 375 students present, 175 professionals, 16
universities represented and a number of industries. They presentation information
on the next student ANS meeting being held at the U. of Florida meeting in
April 2009 entitled "Reacting to Power the Future" and requested that we
consider providing support for the meeting.
2.
Reading of November 2007 meeting minutes: Motion was made by Ralph Butler
and seconded by Marc Garland to approve the minutes as read - The motion passed
unanimously.
3.
Reading of the Results for election of IRD officers: New Executive Committee
members present were recognized. There are now 11 total members on the board.
The Chairman indicated that we should add one more, a student member, is needed.
4.
Treasurers Report:
Ralph Presented the Division's current budget. He noted that the Society
contribution to the budget obtained from Division Membership dues will double
from 1 to 2 dollars. An item for Lunch tickets appear on our balance sheets
will be reimbursed to our budget.
The
current student support for student conferences in the last period was $500.00
Total
balance available as of 3/31/2008 is $39,288. The motion to accept the report
passed unanimously.
5.
Division Committee Reports:
a.
Nominations: Dick Lindstrom will head a nomination committee with assistance
from Greg Downing for the 2009 balloting slate. It was suggested that perhaps
the Young Member Committee Liaison be considered for membership. Other
possibilities include direct nominations known students.
b.
Honors and Awards: Jack Brenizer reported on honors and awards. The Vogt
award was given to Michael Alex Brown Oregon State University. Jack presented
a handout of Honors and Awards activities to the Executive Committee. Jack
reported that the IRD award described on the website and announced has not
given out and no one nominated for a considerable time. Furthermore, he
pointed out that a member of the IRD had not been appointed as a Fellow for
quite some time. This award is reviewed at the national ANS Board level.
c.
Newsletter: Dick Lindstrom prepared and submitted a newsletter. He had
requested that it be sent by email but national sent it out by US Postal
Service. Dick committed to oversee the work to send another newsletter before
retiring as President. Ralph Butler continues to maintain the IRD website and
will see that 3 years of committee minutes notes will be available on the site for
future meetings.
6.
Society Committees
a. Professional Division Metrics: - Discussion
Topics will go "green" next year thanks to the Topical Meeting embedded at the
Anaheim Conference that is lead by Ralph Butler. It was noted that Nuclear News
articles are counted toward improving IRD Metrics.
Dick Lindstrom and Kenan Ünlü will provide
their Professional Division Board PowerPoint presentations to Ralph Butler to
post on the IRD website. Additional "Green" Metrics ratings will be a benefit from
the NAA Tutorial that Rolf Zeisler, Dick Lindstrom and Dennis James are leading
at the Anaheim Conference.
b. Program: RPSD is
planning to hold a joint topical meeting in 2010. Robert Hayes is the technical
program chair; IRD is requested to provide a co-technical program chair and
contribute to the program.
c. Dick Lindstrom announced that Human
Factors Division is proposing to change name. Dick will vote in favor at meeting
later this week.
7.
Individual Reports on Special Projects:
Neutron
Activation short Course, hosted by Rolf Zeisler, Dick Lindstrom and Dennis James
will be held Thursday p.m. at the Anaheim Conference
Over view of joint committee: - Kenan Ünlü
gave a report of the work of the Joint BMD and IRD committee meeting. He
described the very first topical meeting being held at the Anaheim meeting, the
sessions to be held at the Reno National Winter Meeting, and asked that
sessions be submitted for the June 2009 in Atlanta meeting. He also described
the success and increased attendances at the Safeguards meeting. Finally Kenan
stated that the announcement for the April 2009 MARC meeting was on the website
and a few abstracts had been submitted for the meeting.
8.
New Business
a. Student conference support: Motion made by
Ralph Butler to provide $500 in support of the next Student Conference and $250
for travel to the student conference in 2008 in Atlanta, furthermore that we
request that IRD be identified in one of the sessions of their technical
conference. In the discussion Jack Brenizer suggested that the motion be
altered to increase amount from $500 to $750. The motion was amended and Kenan
seconded the motion.
The
motion was unanimously approved.
b. Possible New Award: Rolf Zeisler introduced
a discussion to consider sponsoring a new scholarship or scientific award. Jack
Brenizer indicated that the Graduate Student award is 3K, for an undergraduate
student it will be 2K. It is an ANS policy that the Division set aside 20x
these amounts in our account to endow an award. Jack and Rolf will further
discuss this topic.
c. Short Course: Further
discussion on Anaheim meeting on Thursday afternoon. A short course will be
lead by Rolf Zeisler, Dick Lindstrom and Dennis James on "NAA status after five
decades." The concept of the Short Course is to bridge an apparent generational
gap. It is a test platform for perhaps a repeating short course.
9.
Old Business
a.
Position Statements (Sam Glover/Dick Lindstrom): Dick Lindstrom
drafted a position statement on "Applications of Radiation" and has sent
it to the IRD Executive Committee. Dick asked for changes and permission
to send it on to ANS National. Ralph Butler proposed and Steve Lamont
seconded the motion the position statement be put forward. The motion passed unanimously.
b. Rules and Standard Bylaws: Dick Lindstrom
presented the need to prepare and approve the IRD rules and bylaws. He proposes
to draft and circulate the text for the committee approval before submitting.
General
Comments:
It was noted that the CCQM recently made
a statement that Neutron Activation Analysis has the exhibited the scientific
rigor to be considered a "Primary Technique". The recognition is due in great
part to the work of the IRD Members Robert Greenberg, Elisabete Fernandes, and
Peter Bode.
It was announced that as of July 2008 Kenan
Ünlü will become the Director of Pennsylvania State University Reactor Facility
10.
Adjourn: Kenan Ünlü moved that the meeting be adjourned. Steve Lamont
seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed and the meeting
adjourned at 3:56.
Respectfully
submitted,
R. Gregory Downing, recorder pro tem
ANS Isotopes and Radiation Committee