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EA's Bob Johnson wins
pollution prevention award

The Painesville site, about 22 miles northeast of Cleveland, was the site of a magnesium production facility. Radiation contamination of the soil at the property dates back to a shipment of contaminated scrap steel in the early 1950s.

A major problem facing the cleanup effort was coordinating the efforts of and proving needed information to the large number of people involved from widely separated parts of the country. Those working on the project included Argonne technical staff, regulators from the State of Ohio, consultants from Bechtel National Inc., San Francisco, Science Applications International Corp. and DOE employees from Washington, D.C.

"Instead of bringing the people to the site, we decided to bring the site to the people," Johnson said.

He set up World Wide Web pages that included progress reports, digital images of the effort and all available data. The Web site allowed those involved in the decision-making process to stay current with the cleanup effort and planned sampling techniques.

The Web site helped reduce the from 12 months to four the time needed to diagnose the site's environmental problems. Cutting the time also greatly reduced the costs.

Former Argonne scientist
wins Enrico Fermi Award

Elkind, now a distinguished professor at Colorado State University, shares the award with H. Rodney Withers, an oncologist at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Elkind and Withers will be honored for their work describing the response of normal and malignant cells to ionizing radiation, providing a scientific basis for radiation therapy for cancer. Elkind, working with Withers, a practicing physician, developed the "fractionation hypothesis" that demonstrated the value of spreading out the radiation treatment over time for the best therapeutic effect. This research was first published in 1959.

At Argonne from 1973 to 1990, Elkind carried out further studies of radiation and drug interaction in cell damage and repair. Using cells in culture, the JANUS reactor and a cobalt-60 gamma-ray source, he studied the interaction of radiation and hyperthermia and radiation and drug-induced DNA damage and repair. In addition to heading the mammilian cell biology group, the senior biophysicist was also a professor of radiology at the University of Chicago.

Among Elkind's previous honors are the Atomic Energy Commission's E.O. Lawrence Award in 1967, the Superior Service Award from the U.S. Department of Heath, Education and Welfare in 1969, and a gold medal from the American Society of Therapeutic Radiologists.

The Fermi Award, dating back to 1956, honors the memory of Enrico Fermi. Fermi led the group of scientists who achieved the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago. Previous recipients of the award include John Von Neumann, Ernest O. Lawrence, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer.

Volunteers put their muscles to work
to clean up the environment

The cleanup walk, sponsored by Argonne's Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention (WM&PP) Advisory Committee and the Argonne Club, is becoming a yearly tradition. The event is held to clean up an area surrounding the site. Last year volunteers cleaned up an area around Lemont Road, which yielded enough trash to fill a large dump truck.

"We really appreciate volunteering your time to de-litter the perimeter," said DuPage County Forest Preserve Ranger Al Gorski. "We only have four rangers and four ranger assistants to take care of approximately 10,000 acres of land.

"With all of our other duties we don't have time to hit all of the areas that we would like," he said. "Your efforts really help."

"PFS Grounds personnel were a tremendous help to us again this year," said WM&PP Advisory Committee Co-Chair Keith Trychta. "They donated their time, gloves, and equipment to transport the trash."

The WM&PP Advisory Committee and the Argonne Club provided refreshments and food for the volunteers.

Volunteers picked up enough trash to fill fifty 55-gallon bags. The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County collected and disposed of the trash.

For more information, please call Keith Trychta (EMO) at ext. 2-1476, or the WM&PP Hotline at ext. 2-6778.

Opinion surveys
due by July 11

The survey will give employees the opportunity to provide Laboratory Director Dean Eastman and lab management feedback on their jobs, work place and management. Responses will be anonymous, and results will be provided through managers and supervisors.

Picnic nears

The picnic will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free.

Among the attractions will be a dunk tank, cake walk contest, a train ride and horseshoes. The picnic will also feature a bungee run, Ferris wheel, big slide, "Red Baron" plane ride, moonwalk, pony ride and a petting zoo. Other attractions will include carnival-style games, hayrack rides, bingo and a country-music band.

Food and beverages will be available for purchase, including hot dogs, Polish sausages, tamales, nachos and beverages.

Volunteers wanted

The Argonne Club is seeking volunteers to work for part or all of the the picnic. Employees are needed to help run games and the hayride, sell tickets and greet picnickers. For more information, call Fred Onesto (APO) at ext. 2-5620.

Moncton declines offer
to direct Brookhaven

Energy Secretary Federico Pena last month terminated the contract under which Associated Universities, Inc., operates Brookhaven in response to concern by communities surrounding the laboratory over tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, that has entered the groundwater as a result of Brookhaven activities.

In an e-mail broadcast to APS employees June 20, Moncton stated that he had declined the offer to become Brookhaven's director because the prospective four-month duration of the appointment would not have been sufficient to have "substantial and lasting impact on the laboratory."

"I trust that the changes taking place at Brookhaven will serve as the basis for the renewal of a Laboratory with a great history of contribution to science and to society," Moncton said.

Brookhaven's troubles were compounded June 20, when a worker for an independent contractor was killed in a construction accident on the laboratory's Long Island, N.Y., site.

Pena ordered a site-wide shut down of all construction and facility operations at Brookhaven for a review of safety procedures with employees and putting in place additional safety measures.

F-Prot 2.27
virus protection
now available

Versions are available for DOS/Win3.x, Windows `95, Windows NT, and Novell servers. ECT encourages regular virus checks to ensure an infection-free workstation/server.

Current registered owners of F-Prot software can upgrade for free (access password remains the same). Others can register to use F-Prot with ECT Account Services at ext. 2-5425 for $5 per copy.

Those with access to the World Wide Web can find the software at http://www.anl.gov/ECT/software/license.html

For other useful computer security information, visit the Computer Protection home page at http://www.anl.gov/CPP/cpphome.html

Computer users to meet

* "Recent intrusion into achilles.ctd.anl.gov," by John Volmer.

* "Advanced Function Printing (AFP) Driver Available for 3900 Printer Support under Windows/NT," by Gary Schlesselman.

* "Plans for Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Capability at Argonne," by Fred Moszur and/or Dave Salbego.

Meetings are open to all interested ANL and DOE employees.

Additional CUG information is available in newsgroup anl.committees.cug and on the World Wide Web at http://www.anl.gov/CUG/home.html. Send future topic suggestions to Pat Garner (PLGarner@anl.gov, 2-4872). Send mailing list questions to Ken Miles (KJMiles@anl.gov, 2-3095).

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