UT Knoxville to Webcast Nuclear Engineering Department Colloquium

Thanks to our friends at the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for passing along the word on their upcoming colloquium:

Speaker: Dr. Gary T. Smith
Professor of Radiology and Medicine
and Director of Nuclear Medicine
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, Tennessee

Topic: Radiation Accidents: A Summary of Injury Incidents Since 1945

Where: 308 Pasqua Engineering Bldg.
U. of Tennessee Main Campus

When: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
1:30 - 2:30 pm. EST

Webcast: http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia

Viewers of the live webcast may submit questions and/or comments to the speaker either before or during the live webcast via an email message to utne@tennessee.edu. Please include your name and affiliation in your email message.

Viewers who miss the live webcast can view the archived webcast, which is usually posted within 24 hours, at http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia/Archive/.

Viewers may also receive the speaker's slides in PDF format via email request to Ellen Fisher (efisher3@utk.edu) after the live webcast.

Abstract:
This seminar is intended to review radiation safety concerns and incidents over the past half-century in the medical field, industrial radiography, and the nuclear industry. The analysis will include a brief review of radiobiology, definitions of critical exposures, and a summary of plans for possible radiation accidents at UT Medical Center.

Update your calendars accordingly.

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