Sentences with phrase «health physicist»
A health physicist is someone who studies and applies knowledge about radiation to make sure it doesn't harm people. They keep people safe from harmful radiation and work in various places like hospitals, nuclear power plants, or areas affected by radiation disasters. Full definition
«A thyroid screening program would be expected to save lives by detecting cancers early, whether or not the cancers were caused by radioactivity,» says Timothy Jorgensen, a radiation health physicist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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IN 1991 Doug Rokke went to the Middle East as a US army health physicist to clean up uranium left by the Gulf War.
«Radiation is the obvious and even exaggerated culprit with Chernobyl,» says health physicist Vadim Chumak at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine's Research Center for Radiation Medicine in Kiev.
«Radiation is mundane, it's a weak carcinogen,» says Rod Reed, a senior health physicist at the NRC.
«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.
Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and radiation expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, previously told Business Insider that he likes Ventura County's PSAs because they're simple and easy to remember.
Vadim Chumak, a health physicist at the Research Center for Radiation Medicine at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev, who has coordinated Chernobyl health studies, says that Japanese radiation researchers should heed a key lesson from that disaster.
Two of Collar's former graduate students are co-authors of the Science paper: Phillip Barbeau, AB» 01, SB» 01, PhD» 09, now an assistant professor of physics at Duke University; and Nicole Fields, PhD» 15, now a health physicist with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Chicago.
Often a health physicist is present in the work area to observe good anti-contamination practices.
Our Nuclear Medicine Department is comprised of a board - certified internist, a health physicist, and a specifically trained and licensed nursing staff.
In an e-mail exchange at the time, Robert Barish, a health physicist and radiation consultant, sent the following input on radiation risk from forest fires:
Nine years as a health physicist, twenty - two years as a computer software specialist in a commercial nuclear power plant.
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I have experience an Air Quality Specialist, Environmental Scientist, and a Health Physicist; I seek new employment that would apply previously learned skills and knowledge for a new and challenging position.
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