Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee Report to AdCom

1. Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee Report to AdCom Chuck Melcher March 25, 2011

3. 2010 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference The 2010 NSS-MIC was held October 30-November 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the Knoxville Convention Center. Ron Keyser was the General Chair, John Valentine was the NSS Program Chair, and Tim Devol was the Deputy NSS Program Chair. The MIC Program Chair was David Townsend, and the Deputy MIC Program Chair was Charles Watson. Steve Derenzo was the NSS Short Course Chair and Jennifer Huber was the MIC Short Course Chair. There were a number of special focus workshops, short courses, and round tables. The 17th International Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor Detectors was held in conjunction with the conference and was chaired by Ralph James and Michael Fiederle.

4. Awards Early Career Award: MatteoPorro Outstanding Achievement Award: VeljkoRadeka

5. Conference statistics • ~2000 attendees (largest U.S. conference) • 135 Trainee Grants for grad students and post-docs • 1486 abstracts submitted • 800 people attended the opening plenary session • short course attendance was higher than previous years at nearly 400 • the technical tours are very successful with waiting lists on every one

7. Future NSS-MIC Conferences • 2011: Valencia; David Townsend • 2012: Anaheim; Tom Lewellen • 2013: Seoul; Hee Joung Kim • 2014: Seattle; Tony Lavietes • 2015: Strasbourg ???

9. Status of ANIMMA • NPSS approved technical co-sponsorship of ANIMMA last year • Patrick Le Du is working on the MOU which should be ready for signatures very soon.

10. Status of SORMA 2012 • Expecting 600 attendees which presents a space issue • Not enough hotel space in Berkeley due to conflict with another event • Solution is to change date but this necessitates renting meeting space on campus • If a problem still exists, can move to San Francisco or ??? • Last resort is to postpone to 2013 • No financial commitments have been made yet so there is no financial impact on NPSS in any case

11. Jordanov Fund • Fund was started in 2008 with ~100K • Gives out trainee grants of $3600 annually • Additional donations have increased the fund balance to $215K • NPSS reviews the fund every 3-5 years • IEEE suggests increasing grants to $7200 annually • Motion will be made to do so

12. Jordanov account

13. Request for Technical Co-sponsorship

14. Third International Symposium on Nuclear Power Plant life Management for Long Term Operation Briefing IAEA, February 10, 2011 Leonard J Bond, PNNL Gene Carpenter, NRC Richard Reister, DOE-NE

15. 3rd PLIM – 2012 Third International Symposium on Nuclear Power Plant life Management for Long Term Operation Salt Lake City, Utah, USA May 13/14 – May 18, 2012

16. US Host Committee • US Host nation coordinating committee • NRC • DOE • EPRI • NEI • ANS, ASME and IEEE (NPSS and potentially others) • local organization PNNL – providing support to US committee and symposium secretariat PNNL to coordinate sponsorship (eg lunches etc and interface with hotel) – both US host committee and OECD etc

17. Points of Contact • Richard Reister – DOE • Gene Carpenter – NRC • Leonard Bond – PNNL • PNNL Team --- Becky Ford, Mary Ramos others TBD