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Presentations and Visits
Washington, DC, February 24, 2011
• The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s request to the National
Academy of Sciences to Perform the Study, “Analysis of Cancer
Risks in Populations Near Nuclear Facilities—Phase 1 Feasibility
Study,” Brian Sheron, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Re-
search; Terry Brock, Senior Program Manager, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research
Chicago, IL, April 18, 2011
• U.S. NRC’s program for keeping nuclear power plant offsite doses
as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA), Steven Schaffer, senior
health physicist, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research; Richard
Conatser, health physicist, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
• Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program at Exelon Nu-
clear, Willie Harris, director, Radiation Protection, Exelon nu-
clear; Ronald Chrzanowski, Corporate Chemistry Manager, Exelon
Nuclear
• Health concerns and data around the Illinois nuclear power plants,
Joseph Sauer, M.D., practicing physician, Indiana
• The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
(NAACCR), Betsy Kohler, executive director, NAACCR
• Childhood cancer: current knowledge and challenges in studying
risk factors, Julie Ross, professor and director of the Division of Pe-
diatric Epidemiology & Clinical Research, University of Minnesota
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• Low-dose environmental radiation and cancer risk: Study design
and methods considerations, Martha Linet, chief and senior inves-
tigator, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute
Atlanta, GA, May 23, 2011
• Uranium Recovery Regulations and Operations, Elise Striz, Office
of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (presentation pre-
pared by: Randolph Von Till, Office of Federal and State Materials
and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission)
• Fuel-Cycle Facilities, John Pelchat, Region II, U.S. Nuclear Regu-
latory Commission; Gregory Chapman, project manager, Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
• ATSDR’s approach to site assessment and epidemiologic con-
siderations for multisite studies, Steve Dearwent, Epidemiolo-
gist, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
• Dose reconstruction in the epidemiologic study of the possible
effect of ionizing radiation deriving from the operation of Span-
ish nuclear power plants and fuel-cycle facilities, Lucila Ramos,
Deputy Director for Environmental Radiation Protection, Nuclear
Safety Council (CSN), Spain
• Exposure to ionizing radiations arising from the operation of
nuclear installations and its possible relationship with cancer mor-
tality in Spain, Gonzalo López-Abente, National Center for Epide-
miology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Spain
• Cancer risks near nuclear facilities: The importance of research
design and explicit study hypotheses (round table discussion), Steve
Wing, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Challenges for the historical dose reconstruction of U.S. nuclear
power plants (round table discussion), John Till, President, Risk
Assessment Corporation
• Modeling for Environmental Radiation Dose Reconstruction,
Bruce Napier, Staff Scientist, Energy and Environment Division,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Designing large-scale case-control studies, Dana Flanders, Profes-
sor, Department of Environmental Health Epidemiology, Rollins
School of Public Health, Emory University
• Overview of the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR),
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Christie Eheman, Chief, Cancer Surveillance Branch, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
• Overview of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results
(SEER) registry, Kevin Ward, Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics,
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University (on behalf of
Brenda Edwards, Associate Director, Surveillance Research Pro-
gram, National Cancer Institute)
• The Georgia Cancer Registry—A state’s perspective, Kevin Ward,
Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics, Rollins School of Public
Health, Emory University
• The Georgia State’s response to public concerns (round table
discussion), Franklin Sanchez, Program Consultant, Environmen-
tal Health Branch, Georgia Department of Community Health,
Chrissy McNamara, Epidemiologist, Georgia Comprehensive Can-
cer Registry
Irvine, CA, July 21, 2011
• Childhood cancer and nuclear power plants in Switzerland: Na-
tional cohort study, Matthias Egger, Director, Institute of Social
and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Technical considerations for NAS Proposed Study of Cancer Risks
in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities, Antone Brooks,
Washington State University Tri-cities (retired professor); Helen
Grogan, Cascade Scientific, Inc; David Hoel, Medical University
of South Carolina; Phung Tran, Electric Power Research Institute;
Bill Wendland, CN Associates
• Protocol for an analysis of cancer risk in populations living near
nuclear-power facilities, 2009, Donna Cragle, Vice President and
Director, Occupational Exposure and Worker Health, Oak Ridge
Institute for Science and Education
• States’ environmental monitoring at nuclear power plants, Alice
Rogers, Chair, Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors
(Texas Department of State Health Services)
Washington, DC, October 20, 2011
• Studies of health effects near Massachusetts nuclear power stations,
Richard Clapp, Professor Emeritus, Boston University School of
Public Health and Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission and stakeholder interactions,
Scott Burnell, Public Affairs Officer, Office of Public Affairs, U.S.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Lance J Rakovan, Senior Com-
munications Specialist, Office of the Executive Director for Opera-
tions, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Radiation risk communications: Challenges and opportunities,
Tony Nesky, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Radiation
Protection Division
• Next steps for the Analysis of Cancer Risk in Populations Near
Nuclear Facilities Study, Terry Brock, Senior Program Manager,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission
SITE VISITS
• April 20, 2011: Visit to Dresden Generating Station (Grundy
County, Illinois)
• July 19, 2011: Visit to San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (San
Diego County, California)
• October 13, 2011: Visit to Nuclear Fuel Services Erwin nuclear fuel
plant (Erwin, Tennessee)
