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User experience of MRIdian Linac commissioning and QA with the THALES 3D MR SCANNER

Physics World

The market introduction of the MR-Linac technology improves the patient care via the real-time imaging of the targeted PTVs. During the webinar you will also learn more about the THALES technology for commissioning and quality-assurance processes of conventional Linacs. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

Frontiers

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. On 23 July 2012, humanity escaped technological and economic disaster. While CMEs as large as the 2012 event are rare, lesser ones cause damage on Earth about once every three years.

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EPA, West Virginia Officials Working To Secure Fairmount Oil & Gas Wastewater Processing Facility To Prevent Release Of Radioactive, Hazardous Materials

PA Environment Daily

The site was acquired by Fairmont Brine Processing in 2012 and has been inactive since 2017. Radioactive TENORM EPA’s response will focus on radionuclides in the form of TENORM (Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material). FBP would treat fluids from the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract natural gas.

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Scott Perry No Longer DEP Deputy For Oil & Gas Management

PA Environment Daily

Perry and his team helped develop the first comprehensive state law-- Act 13 of 2012-- to regulate unconventional gas drilling and the first comprehensive regulations setting environmental protection standards for both conventional and unconventional drilling, although the conventional regulations were killed by the General Assembly.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). Significant Economic and Environmental Gains Can Be Achieved by Applying Best Available Technology in the Oil Sector in the Arctic.”

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

Brag

EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), in consultation with the U.S. billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1 Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE), prepared the document.

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Reinforcing the case for independent QA in the radiation oncology clinic

Physics World

In radiation therapy, patient safety starts and ends with independent QA, a comprehensive programme of machine, patient-specific and workflow checks for identifying – and mitigating – human and system errors in an expanding universe of complex treatment variables. Jeff Kapatoes, Sun Nuclear Corporation.