NA-YGN Membership Announcements

Volume 10, Issue 1: June 7, 2012
NA-YGN Announcements:

NA-YGN has reached 100 chapters and growing

1.       YAY!!!!!!    NA-YGN local chapters have reached the centennial mark!  The 100th NA-YGN chapter was established at Edgen Murray on June 5, 2012.  The Edgen Murray chapter is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. To learn more go to http://www.cleanenergyinsight.org/tag/na-ygn/  or press release.

 

2.      IYNC2012 Registration Is Now Open - The 2012 North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN) annual workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Youth Nuclear Congress (IYNC) bi-annual meeting August 5-11 in Charlotte, N.C. Click here to register.

-       IYNC Volunteers Needed for PI Workshops

o   Video Testimony Volunteers – Need volunteers to help

o   Risk Communication Volunteers

-       Public Information Workshops for IYNC!  Please Sign Up!

o   Risk Communication – Participants will learn to effectively communicate when there are perceived high risks.

o   IYNC/NA-YGN Teacher Workshop – PI Outreach Day – Come help us teach the local teachers about nuclear science and technology!  IYNC/NA-YGN participants will help facilitate a workshop for local teachers and will learn how to facilitate a teacher workshop to bring back to their chapters.

-       NA-YGN Video Testimonies – Have something to say about nuclear?  Participants will be asked if they want to give a video testimony about their jobs (what they like, why they chose nuclear) and what they like about NA-YGN.  Participants may also talk about other nuclear related topics of their choosing.  Videos will be edited and posted on tube.  Times for interviews will be communicated prior to the conference and during the conference.  Check us out!

 

3.       Please also welcome the Holtec Chapter as our 101st chapter!  The Holtec Chapter is located in Marlton, New Jersey.

 

4.       Join the nuclear industry in celebrating the 90th birthday of Ted Rockwell. He has over 65 years experience in nuclear technology, and was a founding officer of the engineering firm MPR Associates, Inc., and of Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc., an international public interest group addressing the question of radiation science and policy. During World War II, Rockwell worked at the Manhattan atomic bomb project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. From 1949-1964 he worked at Naval Reactors headquarters, the last 10 years as Technical Director of Admiral Rickover's program to build the nuclear Navy, and as Director of President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace Program. The latter included declassifying much of the relevant nuclear technology, and building the world's first commercial atomic power station at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.

 

Show your appreciation to this nuclear pioneer by signing a special birthday greeting for him. It will have a message from Go Nuclear, Inc. Lead Student Advocate for Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Medicine, 17 year old Mary Claire Birdsong in Augusta, Georgia. She is working on several youth advocate interviews with TR. This special birthday greeting is being signed by people around the world who appreciate what Ted Rockwell has done in engineering and to inform politicians and the general public. We will be collecting "signatures" until June 16th.  All NA-YGN members are invited to sign this birthday greeting for this outstanding engineer. It is not whether one personally knows Ted Rockwell, rather it is about whether they want to recognize his accomplishments and contributions for a better world through nuclear energy.

Please send this message to as many of your members as possible. If they want to sign this Birthday Greeting to Dr. Theodore Rockwell, have them send an e-mail to:
John Shanahan   E-mail: acorncreek2006@gmail.com
Send me you name as you want it listed, your city, state or province, country (if outside the USA).

5.       The NA-YGN Atlantic Regional Event will be held Friday June 22 through Saturday June 23  at the Bechtel Corporate Office in Frederick, MD.  For more information and to register, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/atlanticnaygn/.  The Atlantic Regional event is open to all NA-YGN members.

 

6.      NA-YGN is looking for candidates to fill the Atlantic Regional Lead and Northeast Regional Lead positions.  Previous experience in local chapter leadership is highly recommended for this position.  Candidates should send a resume and a short statement describing why they want the position to usa@na-ygn.org.

 

 

 

Jana Thames

NA-YGN Communications Chair

thames@na-ygn.org  or communications@na-ygn.org

912-537-5965