2015 Election Results
NCRP elected eight new members and seven returning members to Council. The election results are
In Memoriam
Annual Meeting
NCRP 2015 Annual Meeting, “Changing Regulations and Radiation Guidance: What Does the Future Hold?” March 16-17, 2015, Hyatt Regency Bethesda
- Session presentations
- Photographs
- Special Presentations
1st Thomas S. Tenforde Topical Lecture, Jacques Lochard
Presentation
Council Members in the News
- John Boice presented a Seminar on Low Dose Radiation Research at the CDC Director’s Science Seminar Series in Atlanta, March 26, 2015.
- Council member SY Chen participated in a meeting on the development of the IAEA Safety Guide DS474 on arrangements for the termination of a nuclear or radiological emergency that also covers the transition phase
- Senior Vice President, Jerrold Bushberg, elected Fellow of the Health Physics Society
- On the 4th anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor accident, the Radiation Research Society released a 2011 video of an interview with President John D. Boice, Jr. entitled “No Threshold for Fear.”
- Eleanor Blakely, Distinguished Emeritus Member, talks about her lifetime work in biophysics that began with pioneering research into the use of ion beams for hadron therapy (CERN Courier Feb 28, 2015). Read the article in it’s entirety
- Brooke R. Buddemeier has Agreed to Co-Chair Program Area Committee 3 on Nuclear and Radiological Security and Safety
- Gayle E. Woloschak Appointed Co-Chair of Program Area Committee 1 on Basic Criteria, Epidemiology, Radiobiology, and Risk
- Tammy P. Taylor Appointed Scientific Vice President of PAC 3 on Nuclear and Radiological Security and Safety
Now Available
- NCRP Report No. 175, Decision Making for Late-Phase Recovery from Major Nuclear or Radiological Incidents
- Synopsis of NCRP Statement No. 12, Where Are the Radiation Professionals (WARP)?
- Statement No. 11, Outline of Administrative Policies for Quality Assurance and Peer Review of Tissue Reactions Associated with Fluoroscopically-Guided Interventions
- Commentary No. 23, Radiation Protection for Space Activities: Supplement to Previous Recommendations
- Synopsis of NCRP Statement No. 12, Where Are the Radiation Professionals (WARP)?