News Archive

Rick Whitman, Chapter President

The Hoosier Chapter participated in the IRPA 16/69th HPS Annual Meeting in Orlando in July and noted the following:

• About 400 posters were displayed!
• Formatting of presentations varied slightly from historic HPS meetings, but the numbers and types of presentations were remarkable.
• The number of vendors in attendance was higher than usual, and the quality of food was very good.
• Jason Harris and Rick Whitman both received recognition as HPS Fellows.
• The new HPS president-elect is Mike Lewandowski. I will attempt to arrange a zoom meeting with him.

Jason Harris will be on sabbatical this fall but has agreed to invite the Purdue students to set up a fall meeting that does not clash with their other requirements.

Please send ideas or suggestions for future meetings.

During the 2022 Indiana General Assembly, SEA271 was passed directing the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to adopt rules concerning the approval of the construction, purchase, or lease of a small modular reactors (SMR) for use in Indiana with a limit on capacity of 350 MW. Purdue University and Duke Energy have since both expressed interest in SMR operation in Indiana and plan on a joint feasibility study. In the 2023 General Assembly, SEA176 was passed increasing the capacity to as much as 470 MW in order to accommodate a proposed design by Rolls Royce. No new legislation was passed in the 2024 General Assembly.

For those of you in the accelerator generated medical isotopes field, let me know if you have interest in participating in the American National Standards Institute N43 panel. The Health Physics Society website has the N43 (and N13) standards available for your review.