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The Health Physics Instrumentation Committee (HPIC) is a voluntary group who have joined together to share information, documents, procedures, selection, testing, and standardization of Health Physics instruments. The 2013 annual…

The Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society is excited about our upcoming 2013 Spring Technical Meeting scheduled for April 15, 2013 and invites members of the Chapter, other…

“Radioisotope Heat Sources for Space Missions” Speaker: David L. Armstrong, Program Manager, Space Power Systems, LANL Abstract: Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) have been used by the United States to provide…

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Pappadeaux Restaurant 5011 Pan American Fwy NE, Albuquerque Please join the Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society for our annual fall dinner featuring our guest…

The 2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee (HPIC) meeting will take place on the UNM-LA campus September 24, 25, and 26. The last time the HPIC met in New Mexico was…

http://youtu.be/0rMdwCdczB0 At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.'s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan project was busy building a bomb that would be a…

April 16 – 17, 2012  at the La Fonda Hotel 100 E. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM  87501 The Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society is excited…

JOINT DINNER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT “History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Highlights” Speaker: Charles Loeber, DOE and SNL (retired). Abstract: The Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) is a nationwide group of government…

Oak Ridge Associated Universities with the assistant of the Health Physics Society, recently began the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection.  For more information on the collection please visit:  ORAU…