The 2018 Meeting of the Conference on Radiation & Health (CRH) was held in conjunction with the Radiation Research Society’s (RRS) annual meeting in Chicago, IL, September, 23-26, 2018. The USTUR was well represented at the joint meetings, with one invited lecture and one poster at CRH, and two posters at the RRS meeting.

The invited lecture was given by USTUR director, Sergei Tolmachev, as part of a special session on International and domestic health studies among radiation exposed. This special session was organized by the Department of Energy’s Office of Health and Safety.

DOE article about special session

Sergei Tolmachev and George Tabatadze gave a seminar presentation to Oregon State University students and faculty. Dr. Tolmachev discussed the USTUR research program as a whole. Dr. Tabatadze focused on the radiochemical protocols that the USTUR laboratory uses for actinide analysis, and provided results on the amount of plutonium in tissues from former nuclear workers.

Seminar Flier
Abstract and Presentation Slides

Sergei Tolmachev and George Tabatadze attended the 2017 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Radiochemistry (APSORC) in South Korea on September 17-22. While there, Dr. Tolmachev gave a presentation on the analysis of plutonium oxide in tissues of occupationally exposed workers, and Dr. Tabatadze presented his research on the use of the iQID (ionizing-radiation quantum imaging detector) digital autoradiography system to image bone-seeking radionuclides in human tissue samples.

Abstract and presentation links

The year 2018 will mark 50 years of actinide research at the USTUR. In honor of this upcoming milestone, and the Registries’ continued impact in the field of radiation protection, the USTUR has organized a one-day special session at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society in Spokane, WA.

The session, to be held on Tuesday July 18, will include presentations by USTUR staff as well as national and international collaborators. It will conclude with a roundtable discussion.

Special Session
Meet the Roundtable participants

The USTUR’s George Tabatadze and Elizabeth Thomas attended the 61^st Annual Radiobioassay and Radiochemical Measurements Conference (RRMC) in Iowa City, IA, October 25 – 30. The USTUR laboratory recently analyzed a MAPEP soil sample to validate the Registries’ tissue analysis protocol for high-fired plutonium oxide. Dr. Tabatadze presented the results of this effort at the meeting.

Learn more about Dr. Tabatadze’s presentation

USTUR faculty are authors on three platform presentations at the upcoming 60^th Annual Health Physics Society Meeting in Indianapolis, IN, July 12-16, 2015.

HPS Presentations

The USTUR’s director, Sergei Tolmachev, was invited to give a presentation at the 1^st International Workshop on Sample/Tissue Archiving of Radiobiology (STAR) meeting in Kyoto, Japan, May 24-25. His presentation was designed to inform the scientific community about the USTUR: its history, the valuable samples housed at its repository, and recently conducted research. Following the STAR meeting, Dr. Tolmachev attended the International Council on Radiation Research (ICRR) meeting where he presented a poster about USTUR. The ICRR meeting was also held in Kyoto, Japan, May 25-29.

STAR meeting
ICRR meeting

USTUR faculty are authors on two abstracts that will be presented at the 59^th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society in Baltimore, MD, July 13-17:

M. Avtandilashvili, S. L. McComish, S. Y. Tolmachev. USTUR Whole-Body Case 0212: Testing NCRP Wound Model.

R. L. Kathren, S. Y. Tolmachev. Uranium Distribution and Concentrations in the Tissues of Whole-Body Donations to the USTUR.

A third abstract will be present research based upon USTUR data:

J. Zhou. Incorrect Analyses of Radiation and Mesothelioma in the US Transuranium and Uranium Registries.