Below are the abstracts and related information from the Vendor Workshops, Technical Workshops, Presentations, and Posters at the 44th BAER Conference in Albuquerque, NM on 15-20 November 1998. Adobe Acrobat is generally required for the presented information. The available video content will require the RealNetworks player. This is available from the RealNetworks website: www.real.com.

The recording of video was an attempt to evaluate the usefulness of that medium for the BAER Conference community. As a result not all workshops or presentations were recorded. And in some cases the quality of the recording was not optimum.

• Vendor Workshops
  
  
  • PERALS Workshop VIII
    ORDELA, Inc.
  
  
  • Solubility Testing of Actinides on Breathing Zone Air Samples Dr. Robert Metzger
  • Puzzled by Sample Preparation Problems? CEM Corp.
  • Nuclide Specific Analyses of Actinides in Sump Water Using PERALS Dr. Salvatore Scarpitta
  
  
  • Productivity in Nuclear Measurements I
    Canberra Industries
  
  
  
  • Environmental LSC
    Packard Instruments
  
  
  
  • Productivity in Nuclear Measurements II
    Canberra Industries
  
  
  
  • Electronic Data Handling/Exchange
    EG&G Ortec
  
  
  
  • Productivity in Nuclear Measurements III
    Canberra Industries
  
  
  
  • Field Sampling with 3M Empore Rad Disks
    3M, Inc.
  
  
  
  • Productivity in Nuclear Measurements IV
    Canberra Industries
  
  
  
• Technical Workshops
  
  
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Control Issues
    Mo Khalil
  
  
  
  • Recent Advances in Extraction Chromatography
    Mike Fern
  
  
  
  • NIST Traceability and Lab Accreditation
    Ken Inn
  
  
  
  • USDOE Performance Evaluation Programs - QAP and MAPEP
    Pam Greenlaw and Guy Marlette
  
  
  
  • Ra-224 in Drinking Water: Methodologies, Standards, and Implications
    Bahman Parsa
  
  
  
  • USDOE Performance Evaluation Programs - QAP and MAPEP
    Pam Greenlaw and Guy Marlette
  
  
  
  • Statistical Methods in Laboratory Data Analysis
    Chuan-Fu Wu
  
  
  
• Conference Presentations and Posters
  
  

  • Opening Remarks
    Chuan-Fu Wu

  
  
  

  • Welcome Speech
    Joe Epstein

  
  
  

  • Technical Session Opening
    Steven N. Bakhtiar

  
  
  
  • Keynote Speech "Radiochemistry and Radiation Protection"
    Richard Vetter
    • biography
  
  
  
  • Status of the Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program for Radiobioassy
    Rick Cummings
  
  
  
  • The NIST Radiochemistry Intercomparison Program NRIP
    Michael Schultz
  
  
  
  • Hanford Position on Accreditation
    Mark Marcus
  
  
  
  • Status of Proposed ANSI/ANS Standard for Radioanalytical Data Verification and Validation
    Saleem R. Salaymeh
  
  
  
  • The Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program (DOELAP) Tritium Pilot Test for Radiobioassy
    Tansy L. Taylor
  
  
  
  • Laboratory Integration at Hanford
    Ross Bisping
  
  
  
  • Quality Assurance at WSCF
    Huei Meznarich
  
  
  
  • Environmental Monitoring - QA/QC - Public Health Perspective
    Jane T. Jensen
  
  
  
  • MCNP Evaluation of the Effect of Chest Wall Thickness, Tissue Composition, and Photon Energy on the Quantity Muscle-Equivalent-Chest-Wall-Thickness
    Gary H. Kramer
  
  
  
  • Lung Counting: a Function to Fit Counting Efficiency of a Lung Counting Germanium Detector Array to Muscle-Equivalent-Chest-Wall-Thickness and Photon Energy Using Realistic Torso Phantom
    Gary H. Kramer
  
  
  
  • Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of a New Calibration Phantom for In Vivo Measurement of Bone Seeking Radionuclides
    Henry B. Spitz
  
  
  
  • In Vivo Measurement Sensitivity/Occurrence of Radionuclides in Residents of the Carlsbad, New Mexico Area
    Joel L. Webb
  
  
  
  • Method for Estimating Thorium Activity in the Body Using a Thoron-In-Breath Monitor
    J. R. Johnson
  
  
  
  • Determination of Sr-90 in Urine by Empore Rad Disks
    Rose T. Preston
  
  
  
  • The Sequential Analysis of Several Actinides in Urine Samples
    M. Hotchandani
  
  
  
  • Application of TIMS for the Detection of Pu-239 and Pu-240 in Urine
    John W. Chamberlin
  
  
  
  • Uranium Analysis in Urine Samples by ICP-MS
    R. K. Shah
  
  
  
  • The Present Status of the US Transuranium and Uranium Registres' Analytical Methods for the Determination of Pu and Am in Biological Samples
    Dot Stuit
  
  
  
  • Preparation and Verification of NIST Synthetic Fecal Standard for Analysis of AM-241, Pu-238, U-238, and Sr-90
    Z. Y. Wu
  
  
  
  • Improvements in the Measurement of Rn-222 in Natural Waters
    Bill Burnett
  
  
  
  • Application of Radiochemical Evaluation of a Sequential Extraction Procedure for Trace Metal Characterization in Contaminated Soil
    Mark D. Ho
  
  
  
  • Large Volume Gamma Spectroscopy
    Robert P. Reese
  
  
  
  • Actinide Recovery Method for Large Soil Samples
    Sherrod L. Maxwell, III
  
  
  
  • Optimum Shape of Laboratory Samples for Gamma Spectroscopy for Various Size and Shape Ge Detectors
    Frazier L. Bronson
  
  
  
  • Rapid Response Determination of Sr-89 and Sr-90 in Environmental Samples
    J.C. Whyte
  
  
  
  • An Accurate, Precise, and Rapid Method for Analysis of low-level Sr-90 in NIST Bone Ash Standard Reference Material
    Z. C. Lin
  
  
  
  • Thin Film to Prevent Recoil Contamination of solid-state Alpha Detectors
    Kenneth G. W. Inn
  
  
  
  • Determination of Actinides in Bioassay Samples Using Eichrom's Resin Columns
    Anil H. Thakkar
  
  
  
  • Application of Extraction Chromatography Resins as a Sample Preparation Technique for Radiochromatographic Analyses
    J. E. Roane, T. A. DeVol, J. D. Leyba, and R. A. Fjeld
  
  
  
  • SRS Environmental ALARA Release Management Program
    Mary S. Dodgen, B. S. Crandall, and J. D. Heffner
  
  
  
  • Plutonium Speciation as Determined by Molecular Modeling
    David Graf, Michael K. Schultz, and Kenneth G.W. Inn
  
  
  
  • Privatization of Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site Laboratory Services: Modular Laboratory: Lessons Learned
    Virgene Ideker and Cathey Sharp
  
  
  
  • Risk-Based Minimum Detectable Concentrations for Radiological Analysis of Environmental Media at the Savannah River Site
    G. Timothy Jannik, B. S. Crandall, and P. D. Fledderman
  
  
  
  • Variability, Confidence, and Uncertainty: Sorting Out the Confusion
    Thomas B. Kirchner
  
  
  
  • Efficiency Maps of the LLNL and JAERI Realistic Torso Phantoms Using a 70 mm Diameter Germanium and Implications on the Minimum Detectable Activity
    Gary H. Kramer and Barry M. Hauck
  
  
  
  • A Virtual Torso Phantom and its Comparison to the LLNL and JAERI Torso Phantoms
    Gary H. Kramer, Suzanne Yiu, Barry M. Hauck, and Linda C. Burns
  
  
  
  • A Joint HML-KAERI Project: Comparison of Sliced and Whole Lung Sets for the LLNL and JAERI Torso Phantoms Using Ge Detectors
    Gary H. Kramer, Barry M. Hauck, Tae-Young Lee, and Si-Young Chang
  
  
  
  • WAND and HERCULES: High-Sensitivity Waste Assay Systems for Verification of Low-Density Clean Waste at LANL
    Steven C. Myers
  
  
  
  • Distributed Intelligence in Radiation Monitoring Systems
    Kevin J. Sroub
  
  
  
  • Personal Nuclear Accident Dosimetry at Sandia National Laboratories
    Dann C. Ward, Amir H. Mohagheghi, and Ron Burrows
  
  
  
  • A Study in Precision in Gross Alpha Measurement Gross Alpha Analysis - Factors Influencing Precision and Accuracy
    Carolyn T. Wong, Yun-Gang Liu, and S. Kusum Perera
  
  
  
  • Contaminants of Medium-Sized Mammals Around a Radioactive Liquid Waste Lagoon at LANL
    Leslie A. Hansen
  
  
  
  • Massemetric Efficiency Calibrations Of Ge Detectors For Laboratory Applications
    Frazier L. Bronson, Brian Young, Ram Venkataraman
  
  
  
  • Mathematical Efficiency Calibration Of Ge Detectors For Laboratory Sample Gamma Spectroscopy
    Frazier L. Bronson, Brian Young, Ram Venkataraman
  
  
  
  • Interaction Of Sample, Cocktail, And Headspace Volume When Measuring Aqueous Rn In Small Volume Samples
    M. G. Cantaloub, J. H. Higginbotham, J. Istok, and L. Semprini
  
  
  
  • A Rapid Method for the Analysis of Lead-210 in Environmental and Waste Samples.
    D. K. Mann and J. K. Franse
  
  
  
  • Analysis of Tc-99 in Natural and Treated Waste Waters Using Empore Technetium Rad Disks
    F. H. Barber and T. F. Kazmierczak
  
  
  
  • Pu-239 in urine by ICP-MS and FTA methods and their application to occupational exposure measurements
    R. Pietrzak, R. Doty, C. Finfrock, A. Moorthy, E. Kaplan, K. Thind
  
  
  
  • The Difficulties In Dealing With Positive Blanks
    Dave Rodgers and Rodney Melgard
  
  
  
  • Monte Carlo Validation of Internal Dosimetry Algorithms
    Guthrie Miller
  
  
  
  • Developing An Efficient Method For The Measurement Of Isotopic Uranium And Thorium In Small Samples Of Soils And Environmental Waters
    James R. Noyce
  
  
  
  • A Comparison of Alpha Spectroscopy Procedures for Measuring Actinide Contaminates and Total Uranium Concentration on Smears and Filters
    Amy S. Wong
  
  
  
  • Dissolving the Ocean Floor in Three Hours: To Sonicate or not to Sonicate
    Melissa Bost
  
  
  
  • Radiological Monitoring of the Raw Sewage, Final Effluent, Sludge and Biosolids of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
    A. Khalique
  
  
  
  • The Use of Naturally Ocurring Radionuclides (Be-7 and Pb-210) as Atmospheric Tracers
    R. Arimoto
  
  
  
  • Development of a Radiochemical Sensor for Environmental Applications
    T. A. DeVol
  
  
  
  • Radon Progeny Exposure Assessment In Former Uranium Miners Using In Vivo Measurement Of Pb-210 In Bone
    R. A. Guilmette
  
  
  
  • An Evaluation of Solid Phase Extraction Disks for the Routine Analysis of Sr-90 in Water by an On-Site West Valley Demonstration Project Laboratory
    M.P. Pendl
  
  
  
  • A Novel Method for the Determination of Gross Transuranic Activity in Uranium Compounds
    M.C. Tucker
  
  
  
  • Evaluation of Tritium Distillation Utilizing Gas Permeable Membrane
    Mark Laudeman
  
  
  
  • The Determination of Promethium-147 and Samarium-151 Using Extraction Chromatography
    Jon Martin
  
  
  

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