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Richard Burk (HPS Executive Secretary and our designated contact person with the HPS Board) informed me that the Board approved our Amendment to the Accelerator Section Bylaws. This ammendment was proposed in order to enable votes by proxy or e-mail. Speaking about elections, I am pleased to announce that Ralph Thomas accepted the appointment as Chair of the Nominating Committee. Ralph selected two past Presidents as additional members of his committee: Bob May and Lutz Moritz. Please exercise your member rights and respond to their call for nominations when they request it.
ACCELERATOR SECTION MIDYEAR REPORT (2nd half of 1997) Author: Vashek Vylet, Section President Date: January 9, 1998 During its meeting in San Antonio the section elected its new officers, whose names were later communicated to the HPS Secretariat. Immediately after the meeting and in accordance with the Section Bylaws, the new president appointed section members to existing and newly created committees. The salient activities and initiatives of the section are listed below. CASOG (Committee on the Accelerator Safety Order and Guidance) The work of this committee, set up in 1994, reflects a major effort by the section to become an active player in the regulatory process. This work will result in the publication of a paper (hopefully this year) that documents section's position on methods for establishing safety standards at accelerator facilities. The proposed concept provides a rational way of establishing reliability levels of safety systems needed to control risk of radiation exposure. It is hoped that the approach outlined in this paper will be implemented in future regulation pertaining to accelerator facilities. Summer School The section would like to contribute to the Summer School program by organizing a course on Accelerator Health Physics. Two Accelerator Section Board members met with the HPS Summer School Committee and discussed this issue in San Antonio. Contacts are being made to include this course in the 1999 Summer School in Colorado. International School Efforts are in progress to revive the "International School of Radiation Damage and Protection", organized since the late seventies at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily. The Accelerator Section is proposing to organize the program and find teachers for the selected courses. Our target is to have the first two-week course in November 2000, possibly followed by similar courses every two or three years. We were able to secure the support of the European Community for the first course in the amount of 20,000 ECU (approximately $30,000) and started negotiations with the Ettore Majorana Center. Electronic Newsletter The section continues to publish its electronic newsletter IARPE (International Accelerator Radiological Protection E-mail), which is distributed via listserv to approximately 200 readers worldwide. It is also available on the World Wide Web (current link: http://www.sura.org/~schwahn/iarpe.html). High Energy Neutron Calibration Facility Unites States lags behind Europe and Japan in that it has no facility providing well calibrated beams of mono-energetic neutrons, and high energy neutrons (above 20 MeV) in particular. That means that accelerator health physicists have very little means of calibrating their neutron instruments in the high-energy area. The Accelerator Section is exploring different possibilities and will continue lobbying for and encourage any effort to establish such a facility in the US. Financial Report (As communicated by the HPS Secretariat) Statement of Income & Expenses and Account Balance For the 8 month period ending 12/31/97 ACCOUNT BALANCE 4/30/97 3771.61 INCOME RECEIVED Dues from HPS Members 325.00 HPS Meeting Payment 2000.00 TOTAL INCOME COLLECTED 2325.00 EXPENSES PAID Collection & Management 0.00 Annual Meeting Expenses 0.00 TOTAL EXPENSES PAID 0.00 ACCOUNT BALANCE 12/31/97 6096.61
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