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21st Annual AMUG Meeting
The 21st annual meeting of the Air Monitoring Users Group (AMUG) was held at the Palace Station Hotel in Las Vegas on 5-7 May 2009. The meeting was attended by more than forty delegates including fourteen manufacturers (see the participants listed at the end of this report). The genesis of the AMUG was a confluence of US Department of Energy contractors, & has grown to include other government agencies such as the USEPA, the USNRC, USDHS, nuclear power representatives, plus private industry & manufacturing companies involved in radioactive air sampling and monitoring. The AMUG provides air monitoring practitioners with a forum to exchange relevant information, discuss mutual issues and problems, and to develop sound technical and unified, consensus strategies for air monitoring practices and regulator compliance. In conjunction with and just prior to the AMUG meeting two standards committees meetings were held: 1) ANSI N320 (revision) for nuclear reactgor accident and post-accident monitoring systems and instruments, and 2) ANSI N42.50 for radon progeny monitoring instruments. Both of these standards were thoroughly reviewed and discussed by quorum membership of the respective membership of the respective committees. ANSI N320 is chaired by Tim Martinson and ANSI N42.50 is co-chaired by Rob Hayes and Tom Kendrick. Interested parties wanting additional informal on the status of these developments should directly contact the respective standards chairs. The meeting featured the third of the Mark D. Hoover/George J. Newton awards for outstanding & continuing contributions to the technology of radioactive aerosol measurements. This year the award was presented to Jeff Whicker of Los Alamos National Lab. Jeff is one of the founders of the AMUG and recently successfully chaired the publication of ANSI N13.56 for workplace air sampling. (see photo) The meeting consisted of 23 technical presentations and roundtable discussions, with 13 presentations by the manufacturers. The technical presentations are listed by author and topic. Topics included: 1) a presentation ofn the status of the worldwide expansion of nuclear power; 2) a summary of the status of radioactivity air sampling and monitoring standards, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and International Organization for Standards (ISO); and 3) a summary of the new IEC standard for tritium monitoring at all locations. There were many excellent technical presentations. These include: 1) Nuclear power expansion worldwide - Ted Quinn 2) Rountable discussion of air monitoring standards, ANSI, IEC, & ISO - Morgan Cox, SEC 3) IEC 62303, the published tritium standard - Alfred Klett, Berthold, Germany 4) Contemporary NRC issues - Cyndi Jones, USNRC 5) Important D&D issues - Arthur Desrosiers, SEC 6) Air sampling & monitoring via unmanned aerial vehicles - Eric Newton, Honeywell 7) Isokinetic sampling in stacks - Scott Colby, Perma-Fix 8) Radon/progeny chamber - Phil Jenkins, Bowser-Morner 9) ANSI N42.50 Radon progeny standard - Rob Hayes, WIPP 10) Performance of several air monitors - Rob Hayes 11) Air monitoring at PET centers - Alfred Klett 12) Status of the textbook on air sampling - M. Cox for Mark Maiello 13) Air monitoring Pu for public protection - Bill Eisele, LANL 14) Data acquisition & web display software - Orval Hart, LANL 15) Retrospective air sampling at Argonne National Lab - Charlotte Sholeen, ANL 16) Dynamic radioactive particle source - Murray Moore, LANL 17) ANSI N320 Reactor emergency monitoring - Tim Martinson, Canberra 18) In-field analysis of retrospective workploace air sampling - Dennis Hadlock, Washington Savannah River 19) Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) - Ted Hartwell, Desert Research Institute (DRI) 20) Related radiobiology - Steve Curtis, DRI 21) ANSI N13.56 - Jeff Whicker, LANL 22) Radon monitoring at Yucca Mountain - Rahim Ghanooni, WCS The particpants in the 2009 AMUG meeting listed by organization were: Aerotomics - Brad Durmmond Argonne National Lab - Charlotte Sholeen Berthold Germany - Alfred Klett B&W Y-12 - Randy Redmond Bladewerx - Dave Baltz & John Mauldin Bowser-Morner - Phil Jenkins Canberra - Tim Martinson & Lee Reagan Desert Research Institute - Ted Hartwell & Steve Curtis Eichrom - Terry O'Brien F&J - Frank Gavila Hi-Q - Scott Owen Honeywell - Eric Newton In-Tox - Larry Bowen, Sr Lab Impex - Jeff Rivers & Jeff Sawyer Los Alamos National Lab - Jim Bland, Murray Moore, Tom Voss, & Jeff Whicker MGPI - Mike Edelman Millipore - Hsiao-Lan Chang Mirion Technology - Tom O'Malley Nevada Test Site - Bill Lee National Security Technologies - Jeff Smith & Ed Wilkes NVOO/DOE - Charlottte Carter Perma-Fix - Scott Colby Protean Instruments - Darrel Scoggins Sandia National Lab - Martin Brennan SEC - Morgan Cox & Arthur Desrosiers Technical Associates/Overhoff - Bob Goldstein, Gary Spears, & Vonise Shoemaker Thermo-Fisher - Denny Cannon & Mike Iwatschenko Washington Savannah River - Dennis Hadlock Washington TRU (WIPP) - Jackie Davis WCS - Rahin Ghanooni The next or (22nd) annual meeting of the AMUG is tentatively scheduled to convene at the Palace Station Hotel in Las Vegas on 4, 6, & 7 May 2010 with relevant standards meetings convening on 3 May 2010. Charlotte Carter of the DOE has graciously offered to hostess a tour of the Nevada Test Site on 5 May 2010. All interested parties including researchers, manufacturers, applied scientists, and regualtors are invited to participate. Formal announcements of the mmeting are expected to be published in the Health Physics Society Newsletter in early 2010. In the attached photo the caption should read: Jeff Whicker is presented the Hoover-Newton award by session chair Arthur Desrosiers. The award represents the many contributions that Jeff Whicker has made to the practice, science, and technology of radioactive air sampling and monitoring. The AMUG met for one evening during the annual HPS meeting which was July 12 - 16, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Go to WWW.HPS.ORG for information on this meeting.
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