2012 News & Events Archive

Senior Vice President, Jerrold Bushberg, elected as fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

and Council member, Wesley Bolch, named Fellow of both the Health Physics Society and American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Dr. George Xu, Council member since 2008, has recently been appointed to lead the Nuclear Engineering Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of the largest, most established nuclear engineering programs in the Nation

Dr. John Boice presented the 4th Dade W. Moeller Lecture entitled NCRP and International Consistency in Radiation Protection Standards at the Health Physics Society 57th Annual Meeting in Sacramento

Dr. David Schauer was an invited speaker at the Workshop on European Population Doses from Medical Exposure. The Workshop was sponsored by the European Commission and hosted by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission in Athens, Greece

David A. Schauer, receives the 2011 Image Gently® Butterfly Award from The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging

Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging and the Society for Nuclear Medicine kick off their “Go With the Guidelines Campaign”

American Thyroid Association is now a Collaborating Organization

Dr. David Schauer lectured to the Idaho State University Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics students about NCRP’s scientific program

NCRP 2011 Annual Report

NCRP Commentary No. 22, Radiological Health Protection Issues Associated With Use of Active Detection Technology Systems for Detection of Radioactive Threat Materials

NCRP Report No. 167, Potential Impact of Individual Genetic Susceptibility and Previous Radiation Exposure on Radiation Risk for Astronauts

NCRP Report No. 168, Radiation Dose Management for Fluoroscopically-Guided Interventional Medical Procedures

NCRP Report No. 169, Design of Effective Radiological Effluent Monitoring and Environmental Surveillance Programs

NCRP Report No. 171, Uncertainties in the Estimation of Radiation Risks and Probability of Disease Causation

NCRP Report No. 170, Second Primary Cancers and Cardiovascular Disease After Radiation Therapy

NCRP Report No. 159, Risk to the Thyroid from Ionizing Radiation

NCRP Report No. 154, Cesium-137 in the Environment: Radioecology and Approaches to Assessment and Management

NCRP Report No. 116, Limitation of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation

NCRP Report No. 109, Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Aquatic Organisms

NCRP Report No. 52, Cesium-137 From the Environment to Man: Metabolism and Dose