CRCPD

CRCPD has declared the week containing November 8 each year to be National Radiation Protection Professionals’ Week to coincide with Roentgen’s discovery of x-rays. This week, November 3-9, 2024, has therefore been proclaimed as this year’s National Radiation Protection Professionals’ Week. I hope you all take a moment to celebrate your dedication to your careers, even in times of staff shortages and new challenges, and the positive effects that each of you continue to make every day in protecting the health and safety of our communities and environment.  

CRCPD Awarded Cooperative Agreement with EPA for Radon Risk Reduction CRCPD is also pleased to announce that we are one of six organizations out of thirty applicants who have been awarded a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to continue work on radon issues. The project is titled “Building Technical Capacity for Radon Risk Reduction” and will be for three years beginning October 1, 2024.    The EPA press release announcing all of the cooperative agreement awardees can be found at EPA Awards $1M to Address Asthma, Radon, and Indoor Air Risks | US EPA.

CRCPD Board leadership members Lisa Bruedigan, Chairperson, Rikki Waller, Past Chair, and Pat Mulligan, Chair-Elect, accompanied by Executive Director Ruth McBurney, visited several agencies to discuss radiation protection issues of mutual interest. The agencies they visited included the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s Consequence Management Group and Office of Radiological Security, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Office of Emerging Threats and Technical Hazards Division. In addition, The Organization of Agreement States (OAS) and the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) participated in an NRC Public Meeting on October 8, 2024, to brief the Commission on radioactive materials policy and regulatory issues of interest to the States.  This activity is part of ongoing coordination and cooperation between our two organizations to support state radioactive materials programs. The two organizations’ representatives also met with each of the Commissioners and senior staff during that day.

Have you submitted an abstract? The due date is fast approaching! You are invited to present a paper at the 57th Annual National Conference on Radiation Control that will be held in Tucson, Arizona, May 19 – 22, 2025. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit your abstract https://lnkd.in/ggXjUpqQ no later than October 31, 2024, for consideration by the Program Planning Committee.

CRCPD Welcomes Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentations! Details and submission form on our website at: https://lnkd.in/ggXjUpqQ

CRCPD was well represented at the HPS/IRPA 16 meeting in Orlando. Several CRCPD members attended and presented, and Michael Snee staffed the CRCPD exhibit. We are hearing great feedback from the conference.