SRP Annual Conference 2023

Technical Programme 

View the programme from all three days.

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Presentations

Tuesday 25 April

Workshops

Conference Suite 1AB

• Changes in Attitude and Approaches in RP over the years - Jim Bishop (Sellafield)
• ICRP Review of the System of Protection - Pete Bryant 

Conference Suite C 

• RPA & RWA Portfolio Workshop - Mary Allan (AWE)
• Beginners Guide to Radiation Protection Clearance and Exemtion Regulations - Simon Townsend (AWE)

Session 1 - Opening Plenary

• Presidents Welcome & Introduction - Jim Thurston (Dorset County Hospital)
• The Dunster Lecture - Dr Colin Martin  
• 60 Years of SRP - John Jackson (SRP Archivist)
• Radiation Protection in Australia - "It's a Little Bit Different!" - Jim Hondros (Australasian Radiation Protection Society President). 
• AGM - Jim Thurston (Dorset County Hospital)

Wednesday 26 April

Session 2.1 - 

• Chairs Introduction - Vicky Talbot (Sellafield)
• Introduction of an Outreach Strategy for the Radioactive Substances Regulation (RSR) Funtion at the Environment Agency - Amber Bannon (Environment Agency) 
• Juggling Babies and Becquerels - achieving gender balance and work-life balance in RP at Sellafield - Izzy Styles (Sellefield)
• Downloading radiological protection experience for the next generation - Jim Bishop (Sellafield) 
• Evolving Systems of Protection - Continuing to meet the security challenge - Graeme Morrice (SEPA)
• Flexible arrangements for today's radiation protection workforce - Mary Allan (SRP)
• Prioritising RPA Progression to secure future resource availability at Sellafield Ltd - Jennifer Humphries (Sellafield Ltd)
• Sharing Learning from sixty years of experience - Jim Bishop (Sellafield) 

Session 2.2 - 

• Chairs Introduction - Juliet Porter (Sellafield)
• Beginning with the Natural: Introducing Practical Radiation Protection to Undergraduate Students at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences - Estiner Walusungu Katengeza (Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences) 
• What to expect from a transport inspection? - Paul Butler (ONR)
• Regulating Criticality Safety in the UK: Experience from ONR Cross-sites Inspection Series - Adam Nichols (ONR) 
• Characterisation to support POCO and dismantling of a hot cell facility - Emily Higgins (Jacobs)
• 60 Years of Sheilding at Sellafield - Frances Yates (Sellafield)
• Management of Radiological Emergencies: The Development of The Ger Firefighters Agreement - Laura Gerla (Southern Scientific)
• The RP Design of a Silo - 60 Years of the Sellafield Magnox Swarf Storage Silo - Mhairi Lennox (Sellafield)

Session 3.1 - 

• Chairs Introduction -  John Bradshaw (AWE)
• Research, Development & Innovations for Radiological Characterisation and Protection, an update on applications from Dounreay - Simon Dickson (Dounreay Site Restoration Limited) 
• Progress on sustainable decommissioning and clean-up of nuclear sites: a personal view - Shelly Mobbs (Eden Nuclear and Environment)
• Radiation protection challenges in special nuclear material consolidation at Sellafield since 2002 - Joseph Mansfield (Sellafield)
• Radiological Decontamination and Decommissioning of a Life Sciences Facility - Glenn Hardcastle and Craig Morrisey (Aurora Health Physics)

Session 3.2 - 

• Chairs Introduction - Sharan Packer 
• Dalgety Bay - Past, Present and Future - Paul Dale (SEPA) 
• Radioactive Particles in Radiological Protection - Corynne McGuire (SEPA)
• Regulation of demonstration reactors - challenges and opportunities for regulators and operators - Ian Steatfield (Environment Agency)
• How do we ensure we have effective and efficient regulators? - Phil Morgan-Brown (ONR)

Session 3.3 - 

• Chairs Introduction - Stan Batchelor 
• Managing Eye Dose in Interventional Radiology - Claire-Louise Chapple (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
• A Comparison of radiation protection issues and guidance for Lu-177 PSMA patients in the UK and US - Kevin Nelson (Mayo Clinic Arizona and IRPA Vice President of Congress Affairs)

Sessions 3.4 - 

• Chairs Introduction - Estiner Walusungu Katengeza (Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences)
• Rehearsing contingency plans in a busy Nuclear Medicine Department - Joanna Sillars (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust) 
• Commissioning a new radiological waste storage facility: big fish, little fish, concrete box - Juliet Porter (Sellafield)
• Comparison of the performance of the Polimaster EPD with the UKHSA TLD dosemeter - Kinga Zmijewska (UKHSA) 
• Have you got the TIME? - Rebecca Varns (Dstl) - We do not have permission to share this presentation.
• Bringing Radioactive Sources on to a Nuclear New Build Site - easy, right? - Stefan Harbron (NNB GenCo (HPC) - We do not have permission to share this presentation.

Thursday 27 April

Session 4 - 

• Incoming President's Address - Jennifer Humphries (Sellafield)
• Address by the SRP Patron - The Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE KC
• Moulding the Healthcare Scientific Training Framework to benefit the Radiation Safety workforce within the NHS - Dr EMma Bowers (National School for Healthcare Science)
• From 13 years of Panasonic TLD dosimetry to the new BeOSL system: Challenges for the Dosimetry Laboratory - Anita Jefferies (RRPPS, University of Birmingham) and Ruxandra Sapoi (Dositracker)
• Radiation monitoring - how far have we moved forward and where could we go now? - Pete Burgess (Radiation Metrology Ltd) 

Session 5 - 

• Chairs Introduction - Pete Burgess (Radiation Metrology Ltd)
• Recent developments and future challenges for ICRP Committee 4 - Anne Nisbet (UKHSA)
• ONR Response to the Ukraine Conflict - Darren Cummings and Ashley Dunn (ONR) 
• The Eurados Project on the impact of the ICRU 95 Revised Operational Dose Quantities - Rick Tanner (UKHSA)
• Some inconsistencies in radiation protection quantities: A possible way out - Jozef Sabol (Czech Police)
• Severe Accident Analysis for Nuclear New Build - Stephen Mann and Phil Ahmet (EDF Energy)