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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
K. Z. Morgan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 477-500
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18463
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The development of dose rate standards and dosage units is briefly described. The recommendations of the April, 1956 meeting of the International Commission on Radiological Protection are summarized and the effects of these recommendations on operations of large atomic energy installations are discussed. It is concluded that, because of the conservative practice of health physics in the past, the new ICRP proposed changes in exposure standards will not require any major alteration of current practices.
