The Eighth Annual RGCHPS Outing to Isotope’s...

Join members of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society and their colleagues with the NM Waste Handlers Association for an evening of food and fun on the Delta Dental (Fiesta) Deck at Isotopes Park. Date/Time: Friday, August 9, 2013 Game Time: 7:05 pm Event Start: 6:05 pm Place: Isotope’s Park (Google Map) 1601 Avenida Cesar Chavez Southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106-3930 Details: The cost of $28.00 per...

Presentations

2015 RGC HPS Spring Technical Meeting Presentations Environmental Health Physics by Mark Miller and Jeff Whicker Operational Accelerator Health Physics by Elaine Marshall and Steven Farmer Doppelgänger Radionuclides and Mono-Energetic Electrons by Walen Mickey An Evaluation of Nearest Neighbor Averaging’s Improvement to the Measurement Sensitivity of Wide-Area Radiological Scanning Instruments by Sean D....

2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meet...

The 2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee (HPIC) meeting will take place on the UNM-LA campus September 24, 25, and 26. The last time the HPIC met in New Mexico was in Santa Fe in 1997.  This HPIC meeting will be the largest of all. Check the HPIC website at  WWW.HPICORG.COM for more details. The Health Physics Instrumentation Committee (HPIC) is a voluntary group who have joined together to share information,...

How the Nuclear Bomb Gave Us the Computer

At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.’s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan project was busy building a bomb that would be a thousand times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan. With a contract from the U.S. military and under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann, a Hungarian American mathematician, and a team of mathematicians,...