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HPS's Eric Goldin: On health physics
Eric Goldin, president of the Health Physics Society, is a radiation safety specialist with 40 years of experience in power reactor health physics, supporting worker and public radiation safety programs. A certified health physicist since 1984, he has served on the American Board of Health Physics, and since 2004, he has been a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements’ Program Area Committee 2, which provides guidance for radiation safety in occupational settings for a variety of industries and activities. He was awarded HPS Fellow status in 2012 and was elected to the NCRP in 2014.
Goldin’s radiological engineering experience includes ALARA programs, instrumentation, radioactive waste management, emergency planning, dosimetry, decommissioning, licensing, effluents, and environmental monitoring.
The HPS, headquartered in Herndon, Va., is the largest radiation safety society in the world. Its membership includes scientists, safety professionals, physicists, engineers, attorneys, and other professionals from academia, industry, medical institutions, state and federal government, the national laboratories, the military, and other organizations.
The HPS’s activities include encouraging research in radiation science, developing standards, and disseminating radiation safety information. Its members are involved in understanding, evaluating, and controlling the potential risks from radiation relative to the benefits.
Goldin talked about the HPS and health physics activities with Rick Michal, editor-in-chief of Nuclear News.
Xiafeng Zhou, Jiong Guo, Fu Li
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 183 | Number 2 | June 2016 | Pages 185-195
Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-95
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The nodal integral method (NIM) has been widely used to solve multidimensional steady-state convection-diffusion problems. However, unphysical oscillating behavior arises when NIM is applied to steep-gradient problems and discontinuous problems. In this paper, a new nodal expansion method (NEM) with high-order moments (NEM_HM) is developed to reduce the numerical oscillation drawback of NIM. High-order moments of transverse-integrated variables are introduced. Based on the definition of Legendre moments, all the expansion coefficients of NEM_HM can be defined as shared moments and unshared moments. Then, the calculation framework of the traditional NEM is extended to include the high-order moments. Additional nodal balance equations are introduced to ensure the uniqueness of all the shared variables such as node-average variables. Finally, coupled discrete equations are obtained in terms of various order moments on the surfaces of the nodes. The classical Smith-Hutton problem and a cross-flow problem are chosen to test the effectiveness of NEM_HM. Numerical results show that the accuracy of NEM_HM outperforms NIM for steep-gradient problems and discontinuous cases.
