Program

Visit BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam and learn about how radiation safety issues are managed in Australia's largest underground mine and fully integrated processing facility.

Date - Sunday 17 October
Time - 7.30am - 5.00pm
Cost - $500.00 per person

Located 560 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia, Olympic Dam is a multi mineral ore body. It is the world’s fourth largest remaining copper deposit, fifth largest gold deposit and the largest uranium deposit. It also contains significant quantities of silver. Olympic Dam is Australia’s largest underground mine.

Tour includes transfer from the Hilton Hotel Adelaide to the airport for an Alliance Charter flight to Olympic Dam. Delegates will have an official welcome to the site and view presentations on the expansion and radiation specific information.

Delegates will remain on the bus for a tour of the site followed by lunch. After a debrief and opportunity for questions and answers, delegates will be shown the dust monitoring station at Roxby Downs. Flights and transfers will bring you back to the Hilton Hotel Adelaide in time for the Welcome Reception in the evening.

Please note that tour will be subject to numbers and final approval from BHP Billiton. Travel insurance is suggested upon booking of this tour.

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Media Workshop - George Anastas

Risk Communication with the Media: Emergency Response for a Radiological Incident

Date - Monday 18 October
Time - 2.30pm - 5.30pm
Cost - $75.00 per person

About the Workshop

Effective Risk Communication is an important attribute for a radiation safety professional. Most radiation safety professionals effectively communicate radiation risk to other radiation safety professionals. However, many radiation safety professionals have difficulty in effectively communicating radiation risk or lack of radiation risk to non-radiation safety professionals, including the media. It is important to acknowledge that communication with the media results in communication with the public, First Responders, elected officials and regulatory agencies. Thus effective communication with the media is increasingly important.

This 2 hour Workshop provides an overview of important considerations in Risk Communication and includes important communication lessons learned from the Kemeny Commission Report on the Three Mile Island Accident. After the overview and discussion each participant will be presented with a radiological safety scenario that they will be asked to respond to in a simulated television interview. The interview will be video taped and the video tape will be critiqued. After the critique, the interview will be repeated and video taped. Each participant will receive his/her video tape (initial interview and interview after the critique) which can serve as a participant training tool.

Who Should Attend

If you have never had any training in effectively communicating with the media, the public or First Responders.
If you have had similar training but have not yet communicated with the media, the public or First Responders.
If you have had similar training but wish to further hone your skills.

Please note that this workshop has a limited capacity. It is recommended to book as soon as possible. This workshop includes one hour for afternoon tea.

Public Lecture

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INIVITED SPEAKERS

Dr Ziggy Switkowski                                      Prof. Barry W. Brook (Ph.D.)
Chair                                                           Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change
Australian Nuclear Science                             Director of Climate Science,
and Technology Organisation                         The Environment Institute

Date - Monday 18 October 2010
Time - 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue - Hilton Hotel Adelaide, 233 Victoria Square

Master of Ceremonies - Mark Chalmers, Director, Uranium Associates Pty Ltd

The world is experiencing a strong warming trend believed to be driven by greenhouse gas emissions associated with the burning of fossil fuels for energy production. Australians’ demand for electricity, and energy in general, is expected to double by 2050. The challenge is to moderate and meet this growing demand in an environmentally responsible way. Nuclear power is already widely used around the world and the debate for its deployment in Australia is well underway.

Dr Ziggy Switkowski’s presentation will review the nuclear fuel cycle in the context of low emission energy technology and point to the potential role of nuclear power in Australia’s energy and climate change strategy.

If nuclear power is to be the principle energy solution for tackling climate change – in Australia and worldwide – it must satisfy a number of fundamental criteria: low-carbon footprint, effective waste management, long-term sustainability, reliability, safety and economy. Although the current generation of nuclear power reactors already tick most of these boxes, the ultimate flourishing of nuclear power as a perpetual energy source for humanity will require a transition to a closed-fuel cycle, in which virtually all of the energy in uranium and thorium is used.

Professor Barry Brook will discuss some of the key technologies that will likely underpin this next-generation revolution in atomic energy, and chart a possible course for their development and deployment over the next 40 years.