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,...

2012 RGC HPS Spring Technical Meeting, Celebrating...

April 16 – 17, 2012  at the La Fonda Hotel 100 E. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM  87501 The Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society is excited about our upcoming 2012 Spring Technical Meeting scheduled for April 16-17, 2012 and invites members of the Chapter, other interested professionals and students to participate. In addition to the conference, this year the Chapter will be sponsoring CHP review courses on...

History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex

JOINT DINNER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT “History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Highlights” Speaker: Charles Loeber, DOE and SNL (retired). Abstract: The Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) is a nationwide group of government owned, contractor-operated laboratories, plants, and test sites that are managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration under the U.S. Department of Energy. The NWC is responsible for the design,...

ORAU Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Mus...

Oak Ridge Associated Universities with the assistant of the Health Physics Society, recently began the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection.  For more information on the collection please visit:  ORAU Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum...

Image Gently® and Society of Nuclear Medicine Laun...

This fall, Image Gently® and the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) have unveiled the “Go With the Guidelines” awareness campaign, encouraging community hospitals, academic hospitals and clinics to observe new guidelines on radiopharmaceutical dose for pediatric patients. To foster awareness, Image Gently and SNM are distributing thousands of 11×14-inch posters that remind medical practitioners to use these...

RGC HPS Board Meeting

The Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society will be having a board meeting on October 19 at 6:30 pm at El Norteno. Please contact us if you wish to attend. El Norteno 1431 Wyoming Boulevard Northeas Albuquerque, NM 87112-3849 (505)...

Armin Ansari, PhD, CHP (short bio)

Armin is a health physicist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serving as subject matter expert in CDC’s radiation emergency preparedness and response activities.   Armin received both his BS and PhD degrees in radiation biophysics from the University of Kansas, starting his career as a radiation biologist, and did his postdoctoral research at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories.  He was a...

Grassroots Preparedness, a Radiation Risk Scale, a...

by Armin Ansari, PhD, CHP HPS President Elect This presentation has three distinct segments.  The first segment discusses the significant impact that radiation professionals (health and medical physicists, nuclear medicine professionals, radiologic technologists, nuclear engineers, and others) can make toward better preparing their local communities for response to a radiation emergency.   An available funding opportunity...