DOH Health Physicist speaks to Seattle Fusor Group
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:56 pm
On Friday night, we were privileged to listen to a presentation by Mike Brennan from the Washington State Department of Health, Office of Radiation Protection on the subject of the RAD BIZ! In attendance were all of the NWNC Fusor Crew, Teachers from Todd Beamer High School (We have some of their AP Physics students on our team) as well as Robert Tubs, Jake Hecla, David Housley, and Kim Brown.
We recently entertained a visit from Mike and another health physicist who's focus is X-Ray at our new facilities here in Federal Way. After a complete review of our neutron producing fusor and our new facilities and "source library", they determined there were no corrective actions required. That has now cleared the way for us to work directly with local high schools on a nuclear curriculum for AP Physics with our fusor as the primary teaching aid.
Mike made a very positive case for making nuclear engineering a long term career choice as the number of older nuclear engineers on the verge of retirement is going to create an avalanche of demand. Young people graduating in the next 8 years from either a military nuclear engineering curriculum or one of the remaining universities still offering such a course will not go wanting for work. Many of our students are high school Juniors or Seniors, so this was well received. For more information, check our website at http://www.nwnc.us.com or watch our video at http://youtu.be/9zl1Mg3jxTI
We recently entertained a visit from Mike and another health physicist who's focus is X-Ray at our new facilities here in Federal Way. After a complete review of our neutron producing fusor and our new facilities and "source library", they determined there were no corrective actions required. That has now cleared the way for us to work directly with local high schools on a nuclear curriculum for AP Physics with our fusor as the primary teaching aid.
Mike made a very positive case for making nuclear engineering a long term career choice as the number of older nuclear engineers on the verge of retirement is going to create an avalanche of demand. Young people graduating in the next 8 years from either a military nuclear engineering curriculum or one of the remaining universities still offering such a course will not go wanting for work. Many of our students are high school Juniors or Seniors, so this was well received. For more information, check our website at http://www.nwnc.us.com or watch our video at http://youtu.be/9zl1Mg3jxTI