SC 2-7: Radiation Safety of Sealed Radioactive Sources

has been a member of Program Area Committee (PAC) 2 since 2007 and a member of NCRP since 2010. She has served on Scientific Committees 2-4, 2-5, 2-7, 2-8, 1-19, and 6-9. Ms. Pryor has served on the NCRP Board of Directors and was Scientific Vice President of PAC 2. She received her BS in Biology in 1979 and MS in Radiological Sciences in 1981, both from the University of Washington.

Ms. Pryor retired from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington in 2018. She was the Chief Health Physicist at PNNL, providing management and technical support to the PNNL Radiation Protection Division since 1992. She also served as the Chief Radiological Engineer for the design of the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Project. Ms. Pryor previously held radiation protection technical support positions at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and the Trojan Nuclear Plant and was the Radiation Safety Officer at the University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus.

Ms. Pryor is a Fellow member of the Health Physics Society (HPS) and served as President-Elect, President, and Past President from 2010 to 2013. She is certified in comprehensive practice by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP) and served on the ABHP both as a member and Chair from 1998 to 2002. She also previously served as the President of the American Academy of Health Physics. Ms. Pryor was awarded the William McAdams Outstanding Service Award by ABHP in 2007 and the John P. Corley Meritorious Service Award by the Columbia Chapter of HPS in 2003.

is a private independent consultant specializing in radiation and nuclear safety and security. He has more than 40 y of radiation safety experience, including 17 y as the Branch Chief of the California Radiologic Health Branch. In this position Mr. Bailey was responsible for the management of the State of California's radiation protection program, including the Agreement State Program for the licensing, inspection, and enforcement of the California laws and regulations for the possession, use, and disposal of radioactive materials. He also had California regulatory responsibility for the registration, inspection, and enforcement programs for x-ray machines and accelerators and the testing and state certification programs for doctors and technologists supervising and using these machines and for nuclear medicine technologists.

Prior to his work with the California Radiologic Health Branch, Mr. Bailey worked for 19 y for the Texas Bureau of Radiation Control, where he held positions as the Director of the Division of Licensing, Registration, and Standards, as the Director of Inspections and Enforcement, and as a Radioactive Materials License Reviewer.

Mr. Bailey earned an MS in Environmental Health Engineering and a BES (Nuclear Power Option) both from the University of Texas.

Christine A. Donahue was elected to NCRP in 2009 and has served on the Scientific Committees 1-18 and 1-19. She is certified in comprehensive practice by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP), and has served on the ABHP exam development panel and as Chairperson of the Professional Development Committee. Ms. Donahue received a BS in Biophysics from University of California, Berkeley in 1981, Nuclear Engineering MS program at University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1982, and MS in Radiological Engineering from California State University, San Jose in 1987.

Ms. Donahue is currently a senior health physics consultant supporting decommissioning and remediation of commercial nuclear power, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research facilities and former Naval sites. Previously she was Director of Radiological Safety Programs at CB&I managing radiological controls and program development. Ms. Donahue served as the Operational Health Physics manager and Radiological Control Manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1994 to 2008 responsible for site-wide radiological protection activities. She has served as a DOE lead auditor and NQA1 auditor for nuclear facility readiness reviews and provided technical support to programs at Argonne National Laboratory and Nevada National Security site. Prior to work at the DOE laboratories, she was senior health physicist at Stanford University and served as the Radiation Safety Officer at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital from 1987 to 1991. Ms. Donahue began her career in 1982 as a nuclear engineer at Bechtel Engineering and Pacific Gas & Electric where she provided health physics support during first outage at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.

is an independent, health physics consultant with over 35 y of professional experience in a wide range of radiation protection areas. His areas of expertise include external and internal radiation dosimetry, environmental dose assessment, radiation risk assessment, radiation spectroscopy, health physics training, radiation detection and measurement, and radiological site characterization. Dr. Frazier earned a BA in Physics from Berea College, an MS in Physics from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and a PhD in Physics (with health physics emphasis) from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His dissertation research was performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the study of interactions of low-energy electrons with large molecules. He completed Comprehensive Certification in health physics from the American Board of Health Physics in 1981 and has been recertified through 2013.

Dr. Frazier is a past-president of the American Academy of Health Physics and a fellow and past-president of the Health Physics Society. He is serving in his second term as an elected member of NCRP and has served on Scientific Committees 46 and 2-1 and on Program Area Committee 2 for the past 7 y. Dr. Frazier was awarded the 1988 Elda E. Anderson of the Health Physics Society and presented the 2007 John C. Villforth Lecture to the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors. He has served as an advisor to numerous federal agencies on a wide range of health physics and radiation protection topics from operational health physics program design to environmental radiation dose and risk assessments. Dr. Frazier has also served as a consultant to private companies and individuals on numerous health physics issues.

is a radiation safety specialist with over 40 y of experience in power reactor health physics. He earned a BS in Nuclear Engineering from The University of Arizona and an MS in Nuclear Engineering/Health Physics from Texas A&M University. He completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston. Dr. Goldin has been a member of NCRP Program Area Committee 2 since 2004, participating in report writing for Scientific Committees 46-17, 2-4, 2-5, and 2-7. He is an active member of the Health Physics Society, served on the Board of Directors, several committees and sections, and held officer positions of Secretary and President, and on the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP).

Dr. Goldin has been certified by the ABHP since 1984 and was awarded HPS Fellow status in 2012. Dr. Goldin's radiological engineering experience includes ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) programs, instrumentation, radioactive waste management, emergency planning, dosimetry, decommissioning, licensing, effluents, and environmental monitoring. In addition, he taught graduate/upper division level courses in radiation biology, radiological assessment, and power reactor health physics at San Diego State University for over 20 y and assisted in the development and implementation of a Radiation Protection Technician training program at MiraCosta College. Dr. Goldin retired from Southern California Edison in 2012 and currently provides technical support and decommissioning planning to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

is the Radiation Safety Officer at University of California, Irvine (UCI), Health. Prior to joining the UCI Health team, Ms. Hamrick spent nearly 20 y as a health physicist in regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Los Angeles County Radiation Management, and the California Department of Public Health.

Ms. Hamrick is a current NCRP Council Member, beginning her first term in 2019, and serving on Program Area Committee 2 since 2017. She is a former member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Radiation Advisory Committee (2015 to 2021). She served as Chair of the Organization of Agreement States (2005 to 2006), and as President of the Health Physics Society (2014 to 2015). She has also served as a member of, and review coordinator for, several National Academy of Sciences committees from 2012 to the present.

Ms. Hamrick received a BS and MS in physics from UCI in 1985 and 1987, respectively. She earned a law degree in 1999 from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and is an active member of the California State Bar. In 2002, Ms. Hamrick was certified by the American Board of Health Physics.

is an independent consultant in radiation protection. He was the director of quality control, industrial safety, and radiological control at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility. He has over 30 y of experience in applied radiation protection, radiological engineering, quality assurance, and safety at radiological facilities such as naval reactors, power reactors, and DOE facilities. Mr. Littleton is a certified health physicist from the American Board of Health Physics, a certified safety professional from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, and a certified quality auditor from the American Society for Quality. He has a BS in physics and an MS in applied nuclear science both from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Littleton is an active amateur astronomer fostering the wonders in the night sky in the public especially the young.

received a BS in physics from Ripon College and an MPH in health physics from the University of Michigan under an AEC Fellowship. He was a health physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1965 to 2000 where he held various positions including Health Physics Group Leader and Radiation Safety Division Leader. Mr. Myers is a member and Fellow of the Health Physics Society and certified by the American Board of Health Physics. He has served on the American Board of Health Physics and as a director of the American Academy of Health Physics. He was elected as a Fellow of the HPS in 1990. David Myers served on the Council from 1996 to 2013 and has served on NCRP Scientific Committee 46 (now Program Area Committee 2) on operational health physics since 1985. He served as chairman of PAC 2 from 2006 to 2013.

is a retired professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and a retired Associate Director of the Nuclear Power Institute. He was at Texas A&M University since 1985 and served for 10 y as the Department Head. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, he was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology and, earlier, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Babcock & Wilcox Company in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the Health Physics Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Distinguished Emeritus Member of NCRP.

has been a member of NCRP since 2006 and served on the Board for 3 y. She has been a member of Program Area Committee 2 since 2017. Before that she served on Scientific Committees 2-2, 5-1 developing reports addressing response and recovery for major radiological incidents. Her career has spanned many areas first working at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory providing training in radiation safety to workers on the Hanford site. She then spent many years as Health Physicist (HP) at the University of Washington, the largest licensee in the State. She moved on to the State of Washington Office of Radiation Protection working as an HP for more than 20 y ultimately managing the Environmental Radiation Section which focuses on environmental radiation survey programs at major facilities including the Hanford Nuclear Site and the nuclear power plant. Over that time she also supported the State’s Homeland Security activities. Ms. Scroggs is a Fellow member of the Health Physics Society and served on the Board for 3 y. She is a life member of the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors serving as Chair from 2004 to 2007 and was awarded their James W. Miller Award recognizing work in emergency response, environmental monitoring and radiological incidents. Ms. Scroggs holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in radiological sciences from the University of Washington. She is certified by the American Board of Health Physics.

has a BS degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Master’s degree from San Jose State University. She has been comprehensively certified by the American Board of Health Physics since 1989.

Ms. Shingleton has been an NCRP Council member since 2017, having previously assisted in writing reports under Program Area Committees (PACs) 6 and 2. She is currently a member of PAC 2 and has been a member of the Budget and Finance Committee since 2018.

Ms. Shingleton retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2017, having served 38 y in a variety of roles in the Radiation Safety Program. During her career, Ms. Shingleton also served as secretary and president of the American Academy of Health Physics, as a member of the American Board of Health Physics Part I and II exam panels, and as treasurer and member-at-large for the Health Physics Society (HPS). In 2008 she named a Fellow of HPS.

is the Director of Health Physics for Mayo Clinic. He leads a team of health physicists that support the use of radiation sources in clinical, research and education domains at facilities in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In addition, he is an Assistant Professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science with teaching duties in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Health Sciences.

Dr. Sturchio has filled numerous roles within the Health Physics Society, the American Board of Health Physics, and NCRP. He received his PhD from the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics.

has a BS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Health Physics from Texas A&M University. He worked at Purdue University as a Health Physicist and transitioned to Engelhardt and Associates, specializing in industrial radiation safety since 1998. He is a certified Health Physicist and has been a member of NCRP PAC 2 since 2008.

is a Consulting Engineer for the Technical Services group of Amentum in Aiken, South Carolina. He has over 30 y of experience in a broad range of staff and management assignments supporting the safe use of radiation and radioactive material. He has provided health physics and radiological engineering support to projects around the world, and has worked on projects for the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, among others. He also served on the radiological engineering staff at the Trojan Nuclear Plant for 10 y. He is also qualified as a Criticality Safety Engineer.

Mr. Willison is a Registered Professional Engineer (Oregon, Tennessee) and is certified in comprehensive practice by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP), and served on the ABHP both as a member and Chair from 2002 to 2006. He has served a total of 12 y on both the Part 1 and Part 2 Panel of Examiners for the ABHP and was the Part 2 Panel Chair in 1999. Mr. Willison was awarded the William McAdams Outstanding Service Award by ABHP in 2008 and the National Service Award by the American Academy of Health Physics (AAHP) in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Health Physics Society (HPS) and is a current member and past chair of the HPS History Committee.

Mr. Willison earned both a BS and MS in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University, receiving one of the inaugural fellowships from the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

received a BS in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MSc from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Certified Health Physicist and a former diplomate of the American Board of Radiology. He is now a consultant, having served most of his 40 y of professional practice with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where he was Regional Manager of Radiation Protection, managing and running the program that included inspection and enforcement over facilities with radiation-generating machines and radioactive materials. His position also involved emergency planning and response, indoor radon, environmental monitoring, accident and incident investigation, and response to orphan radioactive materials and sources. He is a Fellow of the Health Physics Society (HPS), and has served on various HPS committees, as well as having held various offices of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter, HPS.

served in the U.S. Navy from 1989 until 1994 as a nuclear propulsion plant operator, during which time he received the Southwest Asia Service Medal while stationed onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. He received a BS in Biology and Chemistry in 1998 from Stephen F. Austin State University. Upon graduation, he became a health physicist working as a radioactive materials inspector for the Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation Control. His primary focus during this time was on the routine inspections of industrial licensees, as well as investigations into radiation overexposures and other events resulting from the use of industrial sources of radiation. In 2001, he became a health physics inspector with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), where he was promoted to Senior Health Physicist. During his time at NRC, Mr. Thompson participated in numerous investigations into radiation exposure events and radioactive contamination events, most notably the plutonium contamination event at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado in 2008. Another incident investigation that he performed was at a coal burning power plant in Wheatland, Wyoming, whereby 17 employees were inadvertently exposed to radiation from the misuse of fixed nuclear gauges. Mr. Thompson has served as an instructor for the NRC’s Inspection Procedures course, teaching the principles of industrial uses of nuclear material and associated inspection techniques. Also, he was a finalist for the Leadership Excellence Award at the Dallas-Fort Worth Federal Executive Board awards banquet in June 2012.