USTUR director appointed to editorial board of Japanese Journal of Health Physics
Stacey McComish
USTUR director, Dr. Sergei Tolmachev, was appointed to serve a 2nd term on the Editorial Board for the Japanese Journal of Health Physics (JJHP). He worked in Japan at the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai-mura and the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Chiba before joining the College of Pharmacy faculty in January 2007. Dr. Tolmachev has served on the JJHP editorial board since November 2009.
Japanese Health Physics Society
Japanese Journal of Health Physics
Ms. Stacey McCord represented the USTUR at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the European Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), Prague, Czech Republic, February 7-9, 2011. Ms. McCord participated in the Working Group 7 (WG7) on “Internal Dosimetry” and attended the Winter School on “Radiation Protection for Medical Staff. Her presentation to WG7 titled, “Microdistribution and Long-Term Retention of 239Pu(NO3)4 in the Respiratory Tract: A progress report” can be downloaded from the following link.
The USTUR made the Tri-City Herald’s front page on Sunday, October 24 in an article titled, “Radiation Research: U.S. Transuranium, Uranium Registries in Richland provides clues to how radiation affects human body.” 
The Journal of Analytical Chemistry has web published a Research Profile highlighting the forthcoming USTUR/University of Technology, Sydney paper titled, “Elemental bio-imaging of thorium, uranium and plutonium in tissues from occupationally exposed former nuclear workers.” This paper has been ‘epublished’ ahead of print.