SRP Annual Conference 2021

• President's Welcome & Introduction, Pete Bryant (Immediate Past President) (presentation to come)
• 2021 Dunster Lecture, Mike Wood (University of Salford) (presentation to come)
• The Possible Role of IRPA Associate Societies in Developing Countries without Organised RP, Hielke Freerk Boersma (Dutch Society for Radiation Protection (NVS))
• Feedback on BEIS experience of participating in an IRRS mission, Huw Davies (BEIS)

Session 2.1: 10 (+1) years of RGG

• The Role of Radiation Protection Societies in Developing Professionals, Pete Bryant (Immediate Past-President)
• NVS View and Developing Future Generations for Radiation Protection, Carolien Leijen (President of the Dutch Society for Radiation Protection (NVS))
• The IRPA Young Generation in Radiation Protection - Experience in Networking and Achievements, Sylvain Andresz (IRPA YGN) (Presentation to come)
• The Rising Generation: SRP’s work with Young Professionals, Anthony Higgins (presentation to come)
• Decommissioning, Diion Jones (Jacobs) (presentation to come)
• Establishing a radiological baseline: Where do we go from here?, Stefan Harbron (EDF Energy) - presentation not allowed to be published
• Supporting the Armed Forces Counter CBRN Teams, Alison Hume (DSTL) - presentation not allowed to be published
• Delicensing of Nuclear Licensed Sites from the Regulatory Perspective, Paul Butler (ONR)

Session 2.2: Learning from Incidents

• HSE Update, Karen Fuller (HSE)
• Lessons Learnt from Reported Medical Incidents, Jim Thurston (Dorset County Hospital) (presentation to come)
• Mo-99 Contamination Incident Leading to Tissue Reactions to the Hands of a Radiopharmaceuticals Manufacturing Worker, Robin Foy (Australian Nuclear Sceince and Technology Organisation)
• Sellafield Glove Box Wound Event – When Routine Goes Wrong, Lee Tracey (Sellafield Ltd) (presentation to come)
• Achieving and Maintaining RPA Competence and Suitability for IRRs and REPPIR, Jim Bishop (Sellafield Ltd) (presentation to come)
• Why using X-rays for the calibration of radiation protection instruments is (generally) better than using large Cs-137 sources, Pete Burgess (Radiation Metrology)
• An audit of Junior Doctor knowledge, regarding radiation awareness and radiological risk of malignancy - A complete audit cycle, Alexander Front-Younger and Lauren Leightell-Brown 

Session 3.1: Medical Sector

• Challenges in the implementation of IRR17 for smaller users of x-rays (universities, chiropractors, dentists etc.), Graham Hart (YourRPA) (presentation coming soon)
• How the revised Ionising Radiation Regulations and IRMER has changed RP in hospitals (the impact of the lower eye dose limit, ring and fingertip monitoring and classification of staff), David Dommett (Southend University Hospital)
• Application of a correction factor to the measurement of the radiation dose to the lens of the eye, Anita Jefferies (RRPPS, Universities Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust) (presentation to come)
• Designing and building a bespoke brachytherapy facility – including the 'lead shed’, Keith Langmack (Nottingham University Hospitals)
• How “safe” is your skin? Effect of PET-CT versus standard Nuclear Medicine radionuclide contamination, Sharan Packer and Mark Barnfield
• Delivering a Ra-223 Dichloride Therapeutic Service in Velindre Cancer Centre for Prostate Cancer Patients, Matthew Talboys (Velindre University NHS Trust) - presentation not allowed to be published
• Practical Radiation Challenges in Military Radiography, Eleanor May (DSTL) - presentation not allowed to be published

Session 3.2: Nuclear and Environment

• Using 'burn-up credit' in assessing the criticality risk in nuclear fuel, Eoin Flannery (ONR)
• A New Approach to Supply Chain Assisted Decommissioning, Nigel Reeves (Jacobs) (presentation to come)
• Radiation Protection Challenges at UKAEA Culham, Angela Manning (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
• Regulation in a remote world – protecting people and the environment, Arnold John and Nancy Lawton (EA) (presentation to come)
• The challenges of collaborative work and shared facilities, Stephanie Slater, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - presentation to come
• Shallow thinking - Environmental Safety Cases (for near surface radioactive waste disposal), Nick Mitchell (Eden Nuclear and Environment Ltd) - presentation to come
• Radiation Protection Design in New Nuclear Stations, Phil Ahmet (NNB GenCo)

Session 4.1: Future Developments

• What future RP/environmental safety challenges does the future hold with the development of the UKs Geological Disposal Facility, Sarah Vines (Radioactive Waste Management)
• Back to the Future of Nuclear: Enabling the Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Technologies in England, Colette Grundy (NNL) and Greg Black (EA)
• Radiation Protection for Fusion, Jen Angus (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
• Follow the Sun: Fusion Reactors - How to Help Them Shine in England's Regulatory Framework, Amber Bannon (EA) and James Taylor (HSE) - presentation to come

Session 4.2: Young Professionals Award

• RP Ethics in New Nuclear Build, Troy Fielder (University of East Anglia)
• IRAT2 Incoming, Christiana Dowds (EA)
• Why only unshielded waste containers should be the UK strategy for storing higher activity waste, James Trott (Atkins Global)
• Is replication BAT?, Lauren Bennett (EDF Energy) - presentation not allowed to be published
• Visualization of dynamic dose uptake and its applications, Sam Hilton (Cerberus Nuclear)
• Implementation of a Novel Zr-89 PET Tracer into Clinical Use, Susan Clarke (The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
• Doing Safety Sustainably, Kathryn Ambrose (Sellafield Ltd)

Session 5: The Future of RP

• Incoming President's Address, Jim Thurston (Dorset County Hospital) - presentation to come
• The Future of Radiation Protection - Where do we go from here?, Roger Coates (IRPA Immediate Past President)
• Reducing uncertainty in the geological disposal of radioactive waste materials - Dr Claire Corkhill - presentation to come
• Integrated Innovation for Nuclear Decommissioning: Delivering a safer, faster and cheaper
  decommissioning solution, John Brotherhood (Jacobs) - presentation to come
• Fukushima, Mike Lavelle (EDF Energy) - presentation not allowed to be published

Session 6: Regulation and Communicating Risk

• Who do you think you are, Nicola Jaynes (ONR)
• ICRP Feedback, Vyoma Shukla (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust)
• RIFE, Andrew Pynn, EA
• Communicating Risk, Pete Bryant