For the December 15, 2015 DC ANS dinner meeting, Dr. Ruth Weiner, Expert in Transportation Risk Analysis at Boston Government Services, will be speaking on the following topic:
“Risks of Transporting Radioactive Materials”
– A review on how risks of transporting radioactive materials are estimated, risk models used, routine transportation and transportation accidents, U.S. and IAEA approaches.
Click here for Dr. Weiner’s full bio.
Ruth Weiner was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, she emigrated with her parents to the U.S. to escape the Nazi occupation of Austria. She is attended Baltimore, MD public schools, received a B. S (1956) and M.S. (1957) in physics from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D in Chemistry in 1962 from the Johns Hopkins University. She was an AEC Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Medical School, and subsequently Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Colorado Women’s College. In 1971 Dr. Weiner was appointed Chairman of the Chemistry Department and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Florida International University (Miami FL). In 1974 she was appointed Dean of the Huxley College of Environmental Studies and Professor of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. In 1995, after a brief tenure at the Environmental Evaluation Group of New Mexico, Dr. Weiner moved to Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, from which she retired in 2014. Since 2014 she has been the Program Manager for the risk assessment program RADTRAN, which she has managed since 2003, first at Sandia and currently for Boston Government Services, under contract to DOE/EM. She is also Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Dr. Weiner has been recognized for both her scientific and environmental work. Since 1972 she has been listed in American Men and Women of Science. From 1970 until 1974 she served on the EPA National Air Pollution Control Techniques Advisory Committee. From 1975 until 1984 she served on the Oceanographic Commission of Washington State. She was the AAAS Congressional Science Fellow for 1984. From 2003 until 2008, she served on the NRC Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste and Materials. In 2004 she was elected a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Dr. Weiner has been a co-author several editions of Environmental Engineering (Elsevier, pub), most recently Weiner and Mathews, Environmental Engineering Fourth Edition, 2003. She was also a preparer of NUREG 2125 “Spent fuel Transportation Risk Assessment” (2014). In addition to half a dozen books, she has written or co-authored about 150 papers and several book chapters.
Click here to make your reservation via e-mail, type in your name/affiliation and any guest names, and click SEND to the indicated RSVP e-mail address by no later than 6 pm, Thursday, December 10, 2015*.*NOTE: If you would like to attend, please include your name, your company’s name, a contact phone #, and email address in your RSVP email. *Also, please note that by registering, you are agreeing to paying for the dinner whether you attend or not because ANS is otherwise responsible for the cost of the food.
On site registration is allowed but on a first-come, first-served basis as food is ordered in advance so advance registration is preferred.
Cost:
$15 for students
$30 for members
$35 for non members
Location: Far East Restaurant
Address: 5055 Nickelson Lane, Rockville MD 20852
Website: http://www.fareastrockvillemd.com/menus.html
Click here for a map link to the venue
Date: December 15, 2015 (Tuesday)
Registration/Social/Dinner: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM