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Volume 7, Number 1 Editor's Note
Here at Los Alamos we are cooling down from summer with sunny clear days and cool nights hinting at autumn, back-to-school, and shorter days and snow on the mountain tops in a few weeks. We have a nice mix of contributions this month from our technical divisions and students.We are highlighting some of or students from LANL and their achievements these last few months. This issue we focus on two parts of our profession. We have a report from Chris Pickett, chair of the Materials Control & Accountability (MC&A) Technical Division and a new INMM Fellow, describing all the division’s committees and upcoming activities. We also have a report from Ken Sorenson on the packing and transport upcoming PATRAM 2010. As in every issue of the Communicator, we have news about the Institute’s internal operations in a column by INMM Vice President Scott Vance, “Inside Insights.” News from the Membership Committee appears in Member News. Our thanks to Al Garrett, chair of the Membership Committe. As always, I look forward to hearing from you. If you have any items you would like to have in the Communicator please forward them to me. We are the Communications Committee! Spreading the news of what is and what goes on in our profession is our mission! Of course, the Communications Committee is still looking for volunteers: drop me a line at bboyer@lanl.gov. I hope many of you enjoyed the dry heat of Tucson July 12-16 at our 50th INMM Annual Meeting where we had more than 1,000 attendees including 92 students. Two of those students are featured this month. In Student Corner, Adrienne Lafleur from Texas A&M, a Ph.D. candidate in nuclear engineering, who has collaborated with us at LANL and attended the ESARDA conference in Vilnius, Lithuania which included a side trip to the twin RBMK-1500 reactors, once the largest reactors in the world, at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas. She gives a first hand student account. Rosalyn Leitch from Los Alamos, N.M. USA, came home after graduating from Seattle Pacific University this spring but did not rest over the summer. She worked at LANL where she learned about nonproliferation and safeguards. This experience helped her garner an internship with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Program of the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) in Arlington, Va. She relates to us her experiences this summer and how it shaped her future in international relations. Our members should be planning ahead for July 2010 and the 51st Annual Meeting. We are pulling together the Technical Program Committee. Any new volunteers for the TPC should contact Charlie Pietri at cpietri@aol.com. We are always looking for new insights and ideas for the annual meeting. I am looking forward to going to Baltimore since I am from the East Coast originally and will get a chance to bring the family east again. Baltimore should be a family-friendly site as the Inner Harbor area, home of the conference hotel, holds the famous Baltimore Aquarium, the U.S.S. Constellation, a WWII submarine, and the Baltimore Orioles Camden Fields park with Fort McHenry, and my favorite, the B&O Railroad Museum just a bit beyond the Inner Harbor. Fun and education will be in easy reach for the whole family. Plan to stay an extra day or so to enjoy Baltimore! Washington, D.C. is also readily available with Baltimore public transport connecting to the MARC commuter train from Baltimore to D.C. and all the history and culture available there. Public transport can be used to reach the hotel using light rail and bus from BWI. In closing I would like to congratulate our four new Fellows. Chris Pickett Chris is shown here between INMM VP Scott Vance and INMM President Steve Ortiz. Gennady Pshakin
Amy Whitworth
Amy is shown here on the far right. Also in this photo are Martha Williams, Steve Ortiz, Hans Blix, Nancy Jo Nicholas, Obie Amacker, Bob Curl and Scott Vance. |
