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CANBERRA 2007 Users' Group Meeting  

Schedule: Tentative Schedule.  Subject to change. (Latest update Tuesday, May 22, 2007)

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Time

 

Room

5:00 - 7:00pm

Registration

Group Lobby Office – Excelsior Foyer

Monday, June 25, 2007

Time

 

  Room

8:00 - 9:00am

Continental Breakfast

  Grand Salon Foyer

8:00 - 9:00am

Registration

  Group Lobby Office – Excelsior Foyer

9:00 - 4:30 pm

Training Seminars Begin/Session Title

Speaker Room
 

"Script Happens": Using VBScript with Genie 2000 (1-Day)

Frank Liptak

Grand Salon A
 

QA-QC Implementation in Real World Gamma Spectroscopy (1-Day)

Warren Western

Gardenia B
 

GEM5 Gamma Exit Monitor  & Argos Whole Body Contamination Monitor, Basic Operation Course (1-Day)

Skip Danielson

Hibiscus A
  Crystal Reports for Apex-Gamma (2-Day) Seminar NEW Bill Pyle Grand Salon B
  Gamma Spectroscopy Using Hand-held Instruments (Inspector 1000 & Falcon) (2-Day) NEW Richard Machado Grand Salon C
  LabSOCS & Cascade Summing Corrections (2-Day) NEW Dave Groff Grand Salon F

 

APEX Software Update & Operations (2-Day) Mike Geenty Grand Salon G
  Apex-Alpha Operations and Routine Use (2-Day) NEW Cathey Sharp Grand Salon H

10:15 - 10:30am

Break

Grand Salon Foyer

10:30 - 12:00pm

Seminars - continued

   

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch

Verde Vista Terrace

1:00 - 2:30pm

Seminars - continued

   

2:30 - 2:45pm

Break

Grand Salon Foyer

2:45 - 4:30pm

Seminars - continued

   

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Time

 

 

Room

8:00 - 9:00am

Continental Breakfast

Indian Wells L&M

8:00 - 9:00am

Registration

Group Lobby Office – Excelsior Foyer

9:00 - 4:30 pm

Training Seminars Begin/Session Title

Speaker

Room

 

ORBIT, New Software for Manual Multi-Detector AB Systems (1-Day) NEW Lee Reagan Grand Salon A

 

Concepts of Radiological Response from a Planning Perspective (1-Day) NEW Cheryl E. Weaver (Docimo Associates) Gardenia B

 

Developing & Demonstrating Compliance with DCGLs for Subsurface Soils (1-Day) NEW Jeffrey Lively & Steve Rima - MACTEC Corp. Hibiscus A

 

Crystal Reports for Apex-Gamma (2-Day) NEW Bill Pyle Grand Salon B

 

Gamma Spectroscopy Using Hand-Held Instruments - IN1K & Falcon (2-Day) NEW Richard Machado Grand Salon C

 

LabSOCS and Cascade Summing Corrections (2-Day) NEW Dave Groff Grand Salon F
  APEX Software Update & Operations (2-Day) Mike Geenty Grand Salon G

 

Apex-Alpha Operations and Routine Use (2-Day) NEW Cathey Sharp Grand Salon H

10:15 -10:30am

Break

Grand Salon Foyer

10:30 - 12:00 pm

Seminars - continued

   

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch

Verde Vista Terrace

1:00 - 2:30pm

Seminars - continued

   

2:30 - 2:45pm

Break

Grand Salon Foyer

2:45 - 4:30pm

Seminars - continued

   

4:30 - 6:00pm

Registration

Group Lobby Office – Excelsior Foyer

7:30 - 9:30pm

Welcome Reception

Main Pool

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Time

Session

Speaker

Room

7:15 - 8:15am

Breakfast

Verde Vista Terrace

8:00 - 8:15

Speaker Meeting

 

Indian Wells N O P

8:15 - 8:30

Welcome

Bud Sielaff - CANBERRA

8:30 - 9:00

Opening Remarks

Frederic Van Heems - CANBERRA

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome from our Sponsor - Southern California Edison

Dr. Eric Goldin - Southern California Edison

9:15 - 10:15

Keynote Speaker – Looking Ahead For NRC and Industry

Dr. Dale Klein – Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

10:15 - 10:30

Break

Indian Wells Foyer & Terrace

10:30 - 11:00

Using Your Data to Improve Organizational Performance

Roy Miller - Southern Nuclear

Indian Wells N O P

11:00 - 11:30

Managing a Large & Mature Fleet

Yves Garcier – EDF DPN

11:30 - 12:00

The Dutch National Monitoring Network for Radioactivity in Food:  Implementation of G2K

Dr. Jasper Hattink – Rikilt – Institute of Food Safety

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch

Verde Vista Terrace

1:00 - 2:10pm

Breakout Sessions

Speaker

Room

Discussion: ER & Management

Marc Morelli / Kevin Carmichael

Grand Salon DE

Open Discussion: Commercial & Government Nuclear Research Facilities & Laboratories

Brett Roberson

Grand Salon FG

Open Discussion: NPP Operations

Bud Sielaff

Grand Salon AB

2:15 - 3:30 pm

Breakout Sessions

Speaker

Room
Genie Software/MCA Products

Patti McClay/Glenn Centola

Grand Salon DE
Portable HP Instrumentation & Dosimetry Frederic Meyer Grand Salon FG
NPP LAM Steve Mettler Grand Salon AB

3:30 - 3:45pm

Break Indian Wells Foyer

3:45 - 5:00pm

Breakout Sessions

Speaker

Room
Recent Enhancements in Alpha-Beta Counting Lee Reagan Grand Salon DE
ISOCS, LabSOCS, InSitu Measurements, & D&D Frazier Bronson Grand Salon FG
Internal & External Personal Monitoring Skip Danielson/ Melissa Patterson Grand Salon AB

5:30 - 7:30pm

Demo Room (Cocktails 5:30 - 7:30 PM)

Kachina

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Time

Session

Speaker

Room

7:15 - 8:15am

Breakfast

Verde Vista Terrace

8:00 - 8:15

Speaker Meeting

 

Indian Wells N O P

8:15 - 8:30

Meeting Updates

Bud Sielaff - CANBERRA

8:30 - 9:15

Keynote Speaker - AREVA’s strategy and goals to sustain the Nuclear Renaissance

Jean Paul Crouzoulon – AREVA Inc.

9:15 - 9:45

Rapid Gamma Spectroscopic Analyses of TRU/LLW Soil Cores

Kevin Meyer – CANBERRA

9:45 - 10:15

Spectroscopic Determination of the Dosimetric Quantities for Low-Energy Photon-Emitting Brachytherapy Sources Jacqueline Usher – University of Wisconsin - Madison

10:15 - 10:30

Break

Indian Wells Foyer

10:30 - 11:00

Radioactive Contaminated Wound Experience & Assay Techniques at the Savannah River Site Kelly Crandall - Westinghouse

Indian Wells N O P

 

11:00 - 11:30

Implementing the Weighting Factors Method for Determining Occupational Dose Dr. Eric Goldin - Southern California Edison
11:30 - 12:00 pm Genie 2000 in Service of the Environmental Protection at CERN Pavol Vojtyla - CERN/Safety Commission

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch

Verde Vista Terrace

1:00 - 2:10 pm

Breakout Sessions

Speaker

Room
Environmental Monitoring James Forde-Johnston Grand Salon AB
Apex Gamma Brett Roberson/Bill Pyle Grand Salon FG
Using Genie’s New Tools William Russ Grand Salon DE

2:15 - 3:30 pm

Breakout Sessions

Speaker

Room
Apex Alpha Brett Roberson Grand Salon AB
OpenCDM Bill Pyle Grand Salon FG
Solutions for Radiological Emergency Response Marc Morelli Grand Salon DE

3:30 - 3:45 pm

Break

Indian Wells Foyer

3:45 - 5:00 pm

Breakout Sessions

Speaker

Room
OpenEMS Brett Roberson/Warren Western Grand Salon AB
Homeland Security Topics Marc Morelli Grand Salon FG
HIS-20 Joanne Roberson Grand Salon DE

7:00 - 10:00

Off-Site Dinner

Meet in Lobby to Board Busses to:

Jack Warner Estate

Friday, June 29, 2007

Demo Room Open (Kachina) from 8:00 – 10:00am  - Continental Breakfast

Tour – 11:00 – 3:00 - Celebrity Home Tour

Grand Champions Gold Course – Tee times starting at 10:30am

 

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