Nuke Power Talk: ANS Japan Relief Fund:

Monday, March 28, 2011

ANS Japan Relief Fund:

Donations Welcomed

ANS has set up a mechanism to collect contributions to support our Japanese friends and colleagues who have been affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami. I am pleased to support this worthwhile effort and have posted a link in the right-hand column of this blog.

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AnonymousApril 19, 2011 at 8:36 AM
i read that 1 becquerel = 27 pCi. What is pCi?
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Gail MarcusApril 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM
A pCi is a picocurie, or one trillionth (10E-12) of a Curie.

Gail
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Dr. Gail H. Marcus is an independent consultant on nuclear power technology and policy. She previously worked as Deputy Director-General of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in Paris; Principal Deputy Director of the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology; in various positions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); and as Assistant Chief of the Science Policy Research Division at the Congressional Research Service. Dr. Marcus spent a year in Japan as Visiting Professor in the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and five months at Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Dr. Marcus has served as President of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and as Chair of the Engineering Section of AAAS. She also served on the National Research Council Committee on the Future Needs of Nuclear Engineering Education. She is a Fellow of the ANS and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Marcus has an S.B. and S.M. in Physics, and an Sc.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. She is the first woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear engineering in the United States.

Monday, March 28, 2011

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