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Volume 10, Issue 1: June 7, 2012
NA-YGN Announcements:
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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<http://www.na-ygn.org/publicinfo/leftdocs/100%20chapter%20Pres...;.
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<http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/conferencesandmeetings/iync> to register.
- IYNC Volunteers Needed for PI Workshops
o Video Testimony Volunteers - Need volunteers to help<mailto:pi@na-ygn.org>
o Risk Communication Volunteers
- Public Information Workshops for IYNC! Please Sign
Up<mailto:pi@na-ygn.org>!
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.<http://gonuclear.net> 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<mailto: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<mailto:usa@na-ygn.org>.
Jana Thames
NA-YGN Communications Chair
thames@na-ygn.org<mailto:thames@na-ygn.org> or
communications@na-ygn.org<mailto:communications@na-ygn.org>
912-537-5965