“Uranium Summit to be held at SDSM&T on March 27”
Defenders of the Black Hills
P. O. Box 2003, Rapid City, SD 57709
Defend the Black Hills
PRESS RELEASE
March 12, 2007
“Univ. of Michigan Nuclear Engineering Professor Keynote Speaker”
Rapid City, SD -- Bringing an impressive background of more than 30 years of research and applied experience in radiation detection and protection, Professor Kimberlee J. Kearfott, Ph.D., from the University of Michigan will be the keynote speaker at a Uranium Summit on March 27, 2007, at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Professor Kearfott is currently a member of The National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) Scientific Committee, and is certified by the American Board of Health Physics and the National Registration of Radiation Protection Technologies. She graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Doctor of Science in Nuclear Engineering and Medical Physics, and from the University of Virginia with a Masters in Engineering in Nuclear Reactor Safety.
She has held positions on
the Board of Directors of the Health Physics Society (a society dedicated to radiation protection);
the American Nuclear Society;
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Enhanced Participatory Rulemaking Workshop on Radiological Controls for Decommissioning of Nuclear Reactors;
the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Subcommittee on Radiation Cleanup Standards of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology
was a consultant on low-level radiation health effects to the NRC's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Wastes;
has performed a variety of applied health physics tasks for numerous medical and industrial radiation users; and
has been an Associate Editor of the Health Physics Journal since 1991.
Professor Kearfott will be the keynote speaker for the Fourth Uranium Summit planned by Defenders of the Black Hills. Two other national environmental organizations, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Western Mining Action Network, as well as the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s Student Chapter at SDSM&T are also cosponsoring the event to be held on Tuesday, March 27, 2007, from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM in the Ballroom of Surbeck Center at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph St., Rapid City, SD.
The Uranium Summits were triggered from plans for future uranium mining, as well as the lingering effects of hundreds of abandoned uranium mines and prospects left from the 1960s and ‘70s mining boom in Wyoming and South Dakota. To increase the public’s awareness of the effects of uranium development on human health and the environment has been the goal of the three non-profit organizations and the student chapter cosponsoring the event. The informational meeting is open to the public. Lunch will be served.
For further information contact Charmaine White Face, Coordinator, Defenders of the Black Hills at (605) 399-1868.
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