The nuclear engineering department at UT Knoxville will be hosting a public discussion about the events at Fukushima. The panel, as described by the press release, appears to cover a wide range of disciplines. The whole discussion will be webcast, and questions from the public can be submitted. For more details, see the quote below:
On Tuesday, March 29, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, a panel of experts from academia, the national laboratory community, industry, and radiological emergency response will discuss the earthquake- and tsunami-caused nuclear events. The panel discussion, which is open to the public, will be in The Tennessee Auditorium in the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center on the University of Tennessee Campus, Knoxville, TN. The Panel Moderator will Professor Howard Hall, UTK Department of Nuclear Engineering and the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy. The panel discussion will be webcast in real time. You can view the live webcast of this presentation at the following link - http://160.36.161.128/UTK/Viewer/?peid=125414c34db64c9ab995a592f4fd5fa0 . You must have a media player such as Windows Media installed on your computer.
We will also accept questions from the Internet for the panelists. Please email your questions to howard.hall@utk.edu, and please provide your name and affiliation in your email message.
Update: I’ve just received the list of speakers. At the panel will be: Jeff Chapman, President of Knoxville Chapter of the American Nuclear Society; Russell “Rusty” West, VP of Nuclear Operations, TVA; Lawrence Townsend, Robert M. Condra Professor of Nuclear Engineering, UTK; Al Wiley, Director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education (ORISE) Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS); Tom Rucker, President of the East Tennessee Health Physics Society; Daniel Hollenbach, SpectraTech; Howard Hall, Professor and UTK/ORNL Governor’s Chair in Nuclear Security. The Panel Moderator will be Professor Howard Hall.
