American Nuclear Society Radiation Protection and Shielding Division

1. American Nuclear SocietyRadiation Protection and Shielding Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Raymond T. Klann, Chair November 16, 2005 Washington, D.C.

2. RPSD Mission The division promotes the interchange of technology related to: • the transport of particulate and electromagnetic radiation in materials and biological systems; • techniques and instrumentation to measure and calculate radiation fields; and • the quantification of radiation effects and nuclear heat deposition within materials. Radiation protection management, ALARA, operational health physics, and radiation shield design and evaluation are key subject areas.

3. RPSD Governance • Executive Committee Structure • Chair Raymond T. Klann • Vice Chair Andrew Hodgdon • Secretary John Hendricks • Treasurer Stephanie Frankle Past Chair Dave Anderson Program Chair John Hendricks Membership Mark Blumberg Benchmarks Dick Amato Honors & Awards Dave Court Standards Bill Hopkins Scholarship John Postopn, Sr. By-laws Erik Shores Public Policy Dave Anderson Web-site Stephanie Frankle ANS BoD Liaison Herb Fontecilla

4. 2006 Raymond Klann Stephanie Frankle John Hendricks Dick Amato Jennifer Tanner Larry Townsend RPSD GovernanceExecutive Committee • 2007 • F. Arzu Alpan • Nolan Hertel • Andrew Hodgdon • Erik Shores • 2008 • Charlotta Sanders • Jeremy Sweezy • Man-Sung Yim

5. RPSD Governance • Succession Planning • Vice-chair -> Chair -> Past Chair (Nominating Committee) • Overlapping board terms • Try to have secretary and treasurer maintain position for 2 years • 3-year Executive Committee terms • Draw officers from past board members

6. Membership Trends

7. Membership Trends Breakdown of members based on 2003 statistics

8. Membership Trends Breakdown of members based on 2003 statistics

9. RPSD Strategic Plan • RPSD does not have a strategic plan • I have made this a key priority during my term as Chair • Develop draft 5-year plan by 2006 ANS Meeting • Develop draft 1-year plan by 2006 ANS Meeting • Accumulate historical records and trends for division and maintain it as a body of information for the officers

10. RPSD Budget

11. RPSD Communications • Division Newsletter • Have not been consistent with distribution • Averaging one per year • Division Web Site • http://rpsd.ans.org/ • Newsletters and Executive Committee Minutes • Topical Conference information • Needs to be updated • Executive Committee Listserver • Used extensively for communications among members

12. RPSD Contributions to ANS • ANS Position Statements • Position Statement No. 41: Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation • Needs to be updated as HPS has updated their 1999 position statement • Position Statement No. 19 on "Radon in the Home" • Participation with Other Professional Societies • Mathematics and Computation Division • Health Physics Society • OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

13. RPSD Services to Membership • Scholarships • Everett P. Blizard Scholarship • Peer Recognition/Awards • ANS Fellow • Service Recognition Award • Professional Excellence Award • Rockwell “Lifetime Achievement” Award • Student Support • Student National Support • Student Conference Support • RPSD Topical Conference Student Support

14. RPSD Meetings • National Meeting Participation • 2005W – 2 sessions, 6 co-sponsor • 2005 – 1 session • 2004W – 3 sessions • 2004 – 2 sessions • Biennial RPSD Topical Conference • 2002 – Santa Fe, NM • 2004 – Madeira, Portugal (Class II with ICRS 10) • 2006 – Carlsbad, NM • 2008 – Atlanta (ICRS11) • Co-Sponsor of MC2003 and MC2005

15. RPSD Metrics – CY2004

16. Summary • Areas of Success • Strong topical meetings and international involvement • Strong involvement with Society leadership and meetings • Focus for Future Action • RPSD Strategic Plan • RPSD by-laws and rules • Increase student/young member involvement • Increase technical sessions at National Meetings • Update web-site information