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Read, print or download a PDF copy of the June 30, 2008 edition
August 29, 2008
NARM No Longer Waiver-ing
Shipping Radioactivity; The Plot Thickens!
July 28, 2008
Improved Security at No Extra Cost
Michigan's Rules Becoming Agreeable
What's New at the HPS
Shipping Radioactivity Takes More than a Box and a Stamp
Countertops in the News . . . Again
June 30, 2008
"Failure to Secure"
Michigan Starting to Feel Agreeable?
AIHce Talks the Talk
May 30, 2008
Barnwell Door (Essentially) Closed
Another State Approaching Agreement
More Guidance on Release of Patients after Therapy
New York on the Cutting Edge of Regulation Again?
April 28, 2008
Pennsylvania Becomes Agreeable
Rulemaking on Patient Release Dose Limits
Source Trackers Hot on your Tail?
March 26, 2008
There'll be Some Changes Made
Stone Counter Tops are Lookin' Mighty Suspicious!
The Latest in Radon Lung Cancer Risks
February 28, 2008
Rapid Changes in Sealed Source Security Requirements
NAS Makes Their Recommendations on Source Security
Everyone's Talking but the Deadline Still Looms
January 30, 2008
Who is "Reference Man"?
The Latest on the CT Scan Uproar
IEM Certified to the ISO 9001:2000 Standard
IEM Welcomes Another New Employee
December 18, 2007
Dose Reporting Becoming Easier
Diagnostic Radiology Becoming Riskier?
Regulatory Input on Medical Event Reporting
Fingerprinting Source Custodians
. . . Tick, Tick, Tick . . .
November 27, 2007
Time keeps on tickin' . . .
New Licensing Guide for ARM
Demand for Radiation Professionals Goes International
One Solution to Dwindling HP Pool?
Protective Equipment Free to Employees
October 30, 2007
Planing to Minimize?
Byproduct Material Expansion Rule Finalized
More Action on Generally Licensed Devices
September 28, 2007
Get to Work on your Situational Awareness
The Barnwell Clock is Still Ticking
You May be Smaller Thank you Think
Exit Signs Stirring Up More Trouble Again
July 31, 2007
A Funny Story? Not so much.
USDOE Revises its Radiation Protection Rules
Updates on a Couple of Decommissioning Issues
AIHA Roundtable Discussion for New RSOs
June 29, 2007
Disposal Deadline Looms; State Finds Empathy
A New Picture Book to Add to the Library
States Petition for More Radiographer Training
Modify Your Spam Filters!
Guidance on Electronic Submissions Now Available
May 31, 2007
States Lose their Grip on NARM
Draft NARM Licensing Guidance Offered to States
Scrappy Little Poster Now Available
Watch out for Counterfeit Fire Protection Equipment
April 30, 2007
USEPA Samples Up a Storm
Pennsylvania Just Might Agree . . .
New NARM Regulation is Almost Here
Medical Radiation Doses Heightening Consciousness
March 30, 2007
ICRP Releases Draft Report on Interpreting Bioassays
OSHA Needs Your Help
Michigan is Starting to Feel Agreeable
Update on National Source Tracking Implementation
February 26, 2007
USNRC Ups its Rates Again
John Wayne and "The Conqueror"
Universal Radiation Symbol Becomes a Bit Scarier
January 31, 2006
MARSSIM's Little Brother?
DOE Again Offers to Settle Claims
Not More Portable Gauge Violations!
December 22, 2006
Decommissioning Funding Changes in the Wind?
Time to List Your Medical Physicist on Your License
Trouble with Tritium . . . Again.
National Source Tracking System Up and Running
November 29, 2006
Sealed Source Round-up
Why We Need a Sealed Source Round-up!
Blind Trust in Service Providers?
Recent Instrument Rental Program Challenges
October 30, 2006
National Source Tracking System is Here to Stay
Abnormal Occurrence Criteria
A Lesson Learned from the DHS
Probability of Causation - A Cool Tool?
September 28, 2006
Standing By for the Latest Word from the ICRP
Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!
Source Security Report Heads to Congress
Legacy Site Prevention Procedures in the Wind
New Respirator Protection Factors Coming Soon
August 30, 2006
Atoms Win Their Freedom in New York
No More Stealth Decommissioning!
USDOE Procedural Rules May Be Amended
USNRC is Shopping for Antiques
HPS Challenges 10,000-year Crystal Balls
Just Because Its Radioactive Doesn't Mean Its Rad Waste
Reliability of Historical Records
July 28, 2006
NORM/ARM Rulemaking Ready for Comment
Atoms Banned in New York
Suspicious Radioactive Material Transfers
Groundwater Contamination Alert
They're Ba-a-a-ack . . . Crop Circles, That Is!
June 30, 2006
Decommissioning Funding Scrutinized
Changes in the Wind for Dose Tracking/Recording?
Verify Your Assumptions and Computer Programs
National Source Tracking System Could be Expanding
IEM Celebrates a Birthday!
May 30, 2006
Regulators Need Money Too
Potential Changes to 10 CFR 35 in the Wind?
Verify Your HDR Treatment Assumptions
IEM Web Page Getting Popular
April 28, 2006
NORM, NARM and Byproduct Material
New Form for Import and Export Reporting
Suffering From a Common X-ray Machine Weakness?
National Source Tracking System Audit
HPS Losing Patience with OSHA?
March 24, 2006
Does Your Density Gauge Just Seem Funny-looking?
Mandatory Use of SI Units Not That Explicit
Minnesota Becomes Agreeable
HPS Comments on Homeland Security Guides
A Little Light Reading
IEM's Tennessee Office Getting Crowded
February 28, 2006
Monitoring and Decontamination Tips
Fuzzy Rules of Engagement for Licensees
Don't Forget That One Sievert is Equal to 100 Rem
A New Addition to IEM's Tennessee Office
January 30, 2006
USNRC Guidance on Concentration Averaging
Reciprocity is Not a Vacation From Compliance
States Ask for a Crack Down on Temporary Job Sites
Protect Your Communications from Terrorists
More on the USNRC's NARM Rulemaking
Regulatory Changes on Products Containing Radioactivity
Update on New USDOE Safety Rules
December 22, 2005
If You Can't Hear This, You're Too Far Away
Record Keeping Regulatory Guide Revised
Surely You Didn't Miss This Year's Crop Circle Conference?
November 23, 2005
Minnesota Just About to "Agree"
HPS Says Waste Management Needs More Than a Face Lift
Problems with Criticality Alarms
Concerns over Sewage Sludge Cooling Off
October 22, 2004
Shooting at a Moving Regulatory Guidance Target
Availability of Another Epidemiology Study
New "Delay for Decay" Requirements
Can Laser Pointers Bring Down Aircraft?
September 28, 2005
The Steep Slope of Diagnostic X-ray Trends
Sealed Source Accountability Getting More Attention
More Time to Comment on OSHA Regulations
Federal Regulation of NARM "On Hold" For Now
Higher Dose Limits for Patient Caregivers
August 19, 2005
Come by the Open House at IEM's New Office!
Someone at the USNRC Giving You Grief?
Dose Projections over Billions and Billions of Years
Radium Falls Under USNRC Jurisdiction
July 28, 2005
Follow-up to Last Month's NAS Radiation Risk Issue
Errata on the Arkansas Rule Revision
Interesting Information from the HPS
National Source Tracking System Being Proposed
NORM and NARM Emerging from the Shadows?
Pennsylvania Looking for a Few Good HPs
June 29, 2005
Recycle/Re-Use Opportunities and Quagmires
Arkansas Revises its Rules
New Dirty Bomb Protection Proposed
IEM Welcomes a New Employee
Nuclear Services Division News
Stop the Presses! NAS Buys Off on LNT!
May 27, 2005
New Guidance on Occupational Dose Monitoring
More on USNRC Specialty Board Certifications
New Jersey Revises Radiation Protection Rules
Funding Plan Reminder
An Irradiator Safety Matter
April 26, 2005
Specialty Board Certifications Acknowledged by USNRC
Assuring Radiation Protection for 10,000 years?
Busted Gauge? Don't Forget to Report!
Coral Age-Dating and Uranium Prospecting
March 28, 2005
Another Run at External Regulation of the USDOE
USNRC Decommissioning Program Update
What We Have Here is a Failure To Communicate!
February 23, 2005
USDOE Reissues Worker Health and Safety Rule
When is a General License Not a General License?
Licensing Fees for FY 2005
New Report on Carcinogens Now Available
News from Texas on Disposal of NORM
January 25, 2005
Clearing Up More Murky Transportation Waters
New Jersey Stomping Out Radon
Webcast on Radiological Terrorism Response
New Security Requirements for Portable Gauges
A Nuclear Stress Test Story - And This Time its Personal
December 21, 2004
USNRC Announces "Rad Toolbox" Availability
Do the New DOT Regulations Affect Your Procedures?
New "Decay-in-storage" Policy Hits the Streets
Get Reimbursed from the USDOE
Focused Decommissioning Successes
November 22, 2004
Tougher Exports and Imports
Food Irradiation . . . Two Points of View
Regulatory "Gossip"
Enforcement Leniency for General Licensees
October 27, 2004
Has Dilution Become the Solution?
If You Can't Pay the Fine, Don't do the Crime
Know your Authorized Users
HPS Updates its Position on Risk
September 28, 2004
Radiation Exposures from Petroleum Pipe Cleaning
Are Gauge Violations On the Rise Again?
ICRP Modifying its GI Series Model
Managing Water Treatment Residuals
August 27, 2004
Generally Licensed Device Rule Changes and Agreement States
Physicians: Make Life Easier on your Patients
Security Requirements for Portable Gauges
Utah Now Regulates 11e.(2) Byproduct Material
An MOU from the ISCMEM
What? Not More Crop Circle News!
July 27, 2004
Cautions in the Use of X-Ray Screening Devices
Radiation Victim Obituary
OSHA Extends Comment Period on Rulemaking
ODH Also Proposing Some New Rules
June 21, 2004
What? No More SDMP Sites?
Thinking About Discontinuing Personnel Dosimetry?
IEM's Routine Compliance Program is a Hit!
May 28, 2004
No Radioactive Waste Crisis (At Least for Now)
"Exempt Quantities" are Only Exempt Down South
The Latest In "Crop Circle" News . . .
April 26, 2004
USNRC Implements Decommissioning MOU with USEPA
Get-cher CT Scans Here!
Public Employees and their Survey Instruments
Something New Has Been Added to the IEM Web Site
A Couple of IEM Announcements
March 29, 2004
Non-Compliance at its Best (or Worst!)
Emergency Planning
Emergency Shipping Contacts
February 27, 2004
Is Utah Becoming Even More Agreeable?
Remembering TMI
Review Your Posting/Labeling Practices
Dirty Bomb Response Addressed by the HPS
January 23, 2004
Tolerable Radioactivity in Food
The Inside Line on Standardizing Regulations
Feds Getting Anxious to Reimburse Clean-up Claims
Capable of Funding Your Own Decommissioning?
December 21, 2003
New Sewer Discharge Guidance Becomes Available
Good and Bad News for Generally-Licensed Device Registrations
Follow-up to the Mt. Olive Welding Rod Event
No "Just Desserts" for an Abandoned Radioactive Box?
Holiday Safety Tips
November 20, 2003
Welding Rods and Garbage Trucks
How Risky is Thorium? Really?
USEPA Offers Their Own Waste Disposal Solutions
October 24, 2003
Thinking of Decommissioning? Now Might be the Time!
Crackdown on Cargo Shipments
New Detector Standards are in the Works
Have Safeguards Fallen Out of Balance?
September 15, 2003
Regions I and II Getting it Together
HPS Revises Position Statement
More on External Dose Weighting Factors
New Guidance on NEPA Implementation
Go Ahead and Trash Your Copy of NUREG-1727
Remembering 9-11
August 27, 2003
Device Distributors: Get Your Reports in Order!
More Security for Portable Gauges
Hot Flashes and Criticality Monitors
Brachytherapy Positioning Errors
IEM Lectures at Plum Brook
"The Perfect Inspection"
July 31, 2003
Health Physics Society meets in San Diego
Homeland Security/Emergency Response in the Forefront
The Whole Body CT Screening Controversy
Medical Laser Safety Concerns Heightened
Advice on Decommissioning from the USNRC
Wisconsin Agrees!
IEM Welcomes Another New Employee
June 28, 2003
LTR Analysis: The Good, the Bad and the Frightening
Increased Licensing Fees Become a Fact
Heightened Safety and Security for Sealed Sources
Extremity Doses for P.E.T. Technicians and Physicians
IEM Welcomes a New Employee
May 29, 2003
USNRC Offers Radiation Protection Guidance
Complacency in Routine Surveillance Programs?
License Fee Increases Trickle Down
Is Compassion An Excuse When it Comes to the Law?
April 22, 2003
A Revolution in Bioassays for Alpha Emitters?
Of Course My Check Sources Don't Leak!
When a Loaf of Bread Cost a Nickle and License Fees . .
Wisconsin Soon to Join the Ranks of Agreement States
March 24, 2003
The Real Price of Sloppy Analytical Services
A New Waste Classification System
Ultrasound Exposure Criteria
Spam and the IEM e-Newsletter
February 21, 2003
Decommissioning News From the State of Ohio
Regulatory Relief for Non-Uniform External Exposures
Discharge of NORM-bearing Water Into Sewers Prohibited?
An RSO is a "Must Have" Item!
Another Source of the USNRC's HP Position Papers
January 16, 2003
NCRP Position on Scrap Metal is Here!
Utah Low-level Waste Initiative Fails
Gamma Spectroscopy as an Art Form
Its That Time Again . . . Form 5's are Due
Don't Forget Your Annual Program Audit
December 20, 2002
UV and Thorium: Do They Have Something in Common?
Proof of Radioactivity Everywhere!
Regulating and Managing Low-Level Waste
November 25, 2002
Waste Processing - Your Worst Nightmare
Lawsuit Against USEPA Gets Interesting!
Errata on the USNRC/USEPA MOU
Good News from the USNRC on Materials Clearance
Radioactivity No Longer Linked to Crop Circles?
October 23, 2002
USNRC Needs More Decommissioning Funds
A Brief "Rogue Consultant" Reminder . . .
A Bleak Picture for Device Registrations
The Long-Awaited Decommissioning MOU is Here!
Mixed and Radioactive Waste Relief?
September 23, 2002
When Does "Exempt" Not Really Mean Exempt?
Disposal Costs - Rising in Utah?
Disposal Costs - REALLY Rising in California!
NESHAPs Amendment Becomes Effective Soon
Ohio Governor Appoints IEM Staff Member
August 24, 2002
Pennsylvania Licensees Must Use Registered Labs
Uranium Miners May Soon Be Compensated
Transporting Radioactivity on Short Trips
Refractory Brick; Too "Radioactive" to Throw Away
July 22, 2002
Inventory Control Gaining Even More Attention
Wisconsin Makes it Official
New Jersey Starts Certifying Laboratories
Unauthorized Medical Administrations
June 23, 2002
USNRC White Paper on Decommissioning
The States are Coming, and the States are Going
Time for Some Combination Training?
Fix Up Your Damaged Copy of FGR-13
Another USNRC Fee Amendment
May 25, 2002
Disposing of Unimportant Quantities of Source Material
Calibration Services; Be Careful Where you Get em!
Waste Disposal Regulations Rejected by the Courts
Medical Mis-administrations Remain a Concern
April 26, 2002
Getting in Line for your CT Screening?
Decommissioning Update
Regulatory Issue Summary on Dose Assessment
Release Criteria for Solids (Sigh!)
March 22, 2002
Sense and Sensibility in New Regulation Plans
New "Hot Particle" Skin Dose Limits
Free Density Gauges to a Good Home
Is your License About to Expire?
IEM Staff Member Appointed to Important Ohio Committees
PA Waste Processors/Recyclers Expecting a Visit?
February 25, 2002
January 22, 2002
December 19, 2001
November 20, 2001
October 26, 2001
September 24, 2001
August 31, 2001 (Supplement)
August 29, 2001
July 24, 2001
June 20, 2001
April 20, 2001
March 20, 2001
February 26, 2001
January 19, 2001
December 20, 2000
December 7, 2000 (Supplement)
November 21, 2000
October 19, 2000
September 22, 2000 (Supplement)
September 20, 2000
August 28, 2000 (Supplement)
August 17, 2000
July 19, 2000 (Supplement)
July 19, 2000
June 16, 2000
May 17, 2000
April 21, 2000 (Supplement)
April 20, 2000
March 23, 2000
February 18, 2000
January 21, 2000
December 22, 1999
November 17, 1999
October 18, 1999
September 22, 1999
August 23, 1999
July 17, 1999
June 15, 1999
May 15, 1999
April 15, 1999
March 18, 1999
February 19, 1999
January 18, 1999
December 21, 1998
November 25, 1998
October 26, 1998
September 30, 1998
August 22, 1998
July 27, 1998
June 18, 1998
May 20, 1998
April 22, 1998
March 19, 1998
February 11, 1998