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Harold T. Peterson, Jr., MNE, CHP

Adjunct Faculty, Radiation Safety Academy

Master of Nuclear Engineering (1965), New York University
Guest Health Physics Fellow (1965), Brookhaven National Laboratory
A.B. Chemistry (1963), Princeton University
Physical Science Trainee (1962), Environmental Measurements Laboratory
American Board of Health Physics Comprehensive Certification (1971)

Professional Experience

1991-2003	US Department of Energy, Office of Environment, Safety and Health, Office of Environmental Policy and Guidance, Air, Water, and Radiation Division. As Leader, Radiological and Environmental Evaluation Unit, served as a principal expert authority for DOE on matters and policy pertaining to the radiological protection of the public and the environment. Supervised technical staff engaged in formulating environmental policy and guidance for DOE offices and contractors related to radiation protection standards, environmental monitoring, surveillance, and radiological assessment. Project officer for technical contracts with DOE national laboratories including the Argonne National Laboratory RESRAD family of dose assessment codes and manuals. Frequent contacts with the Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board pertaining to regulation or oversight of DOE activities.
1975-1991	US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. As Senior Health Physicist was the program manager for major 1991 revision of NRC standards for radiation protection in 10 CFR Part 20. Task leader for the preparation of implementation guidance on the revised Part 20. NRC member of EPA Interagency Task Force on Residual Radioactivity and Federal Guidance on Exposure of the General Public (1986-1989). Project Manager for development of environmental radiation dose assessment Regulatory Guides for nuclear power reactors (R.G. 1.109) and uranium mills (R.G. 3.51). Principal NRC liaison to the Environmental Protection Agency for the implementation of (former) Subpart I of EPA’s NESHAPS in 40 CFR Part 61. Member of the Ad Hoc Interagency Dose Assessment Group for the Three Mile Island Accident that prepared the initial estimates of the impact of that accident. NRC liaison to industry task force on de minimis levels of radioactivity (1984-1986). Authored portions of a major NRC report to Congress on renewal of the Price-Anderson Act. Certified by NRC as an incident investigator. Technical advisor and communicator for the NRC Office of Public Affairs.
1973-1975	US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs. As Chief, Surveillance Branch, Environmental Assessment Division, directed EPA programs in radiation monitoring and radiation dose assessment involving over 35 man-years and $ 800,000 of effort. Directed the operation of the National Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System. Supervised personnel engaged in dose model development, environmental data analysis, and data system development. Coordinated radiation dose assessment program and field studies of environmental radiation levels.
1970-1973	US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs. As Deputy Chief, Advanced Technology Branch, Technology Assessment Division, assisted Branch Chief in coordination and managing program involving 24 man-years and $640,000 of effort for assessing the environmental consequences of advanced nuclear technology. Project manager of EPA program to assess the environmental impacts of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor. Task leader for the preparation of the technical document for nuclear power reactors supporting the EPA Uranium Fuel Cycle Standard (40 CFR Part 190).
1967-1970	US Public Health Service, Bureau of Radiological Health, Division of Environmental Radiation. Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Facilities Branch, As project officer for the public health evaluation of nuclear power reactors and related facilities. Reviewed radiation surveillance programs and developed models for dose calculations and accident analysis. Developed guidance for states on radiation surveillance and emergency planning. Lectured in PHS short courses on Reactor Safety and Hazards Evaluation and Occupational Radiation Control.
1965-1967	New York University, Post-graduate School of Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine. As Institute Health Physicist and Assistant Research Scientist acted as health physicist for institute performing biomedical research. Performed contract research on radium retention by dial painters and participated in a radioecological survey of the Hudson River; operated gamma spectrometry and whole-body counting facilities and lectured in graduate courses.

Professional Activities

International: Participant in IAEA expert advisory groups on Establishing Limits for Releases of Radioactive Materials (Vienna, 1976) and Radioactive Effluent Monitoring for Nuclear Facilities (Vienna, 1992), Procedures for Establishing Limits for the Release of Radionuclides (Teheran, 1977) and Limiting Radioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Reactors (Stockholm, 1986). U.S. delegate to Conference on the Environmental Aspects of Power Stations (1969). Contributor to IAEA Symposia on Environmental Contamination by Radioactive Materials (1969), the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (1977), and Restoration of Environments with Radioactive Residues (1999). Member of OECD/NEA Expert Group on the Limitation of Long-lived Radioactive Effluents from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Paris. 1976-1979). Member of Working Group 7.1, Environmental Radionuclide Transport, of the Joint [U.S./U.S.S.R.] Coordinating Committee on the Safety of Civilian Nuclear Reactors (1989-1990).

Committees: Risk Assessment Working Group of the CEQ Toxic Substances Strategy Committee (1978-1979), Ad Hoc Dose Assessment Group for the Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Subcommittee on Three Mile Island Health Follow-up Studies of the Committee on Federal Research into the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (1979-1981), NSF advisory committee on technological hazards (1976-1981), peer review group for EPA dose model (1985-1986), the Ad Hoc Risk Assessment Committee of the HPS (1987-1993), HPS Standards Committee(1995-1998), EPA Federal Radiation Guidance for Protection of the Public Working Group (1990-), DOE National Energy Strategy Implementation Committee (1991-1993), ANS Standards Committee 15.11 "Radiation Protection at Research Reactors," (1990-1992). Interagency Task Group on Residual Radioactivity Standards (1993-1994), National Research Council workshops on Radiation Dose Reconstruction (1993, 1996), EPA Working Group on Environmental Performance Indicators for Air and Radiation (1996-1997). Interagency Steering Committee on Federal Radiation Guidance Report No. 13 (1996-); Member, Federal Radiation Guidance(Co-Chair) and Sewage Sludge Subcommittees of the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS).

Society Positions: American Nuclear Society: Vice-Chair, ANS Special Committee on Site Cleanup and Restoration Standards (2001-); American Nuclear Society, Washington Section: Secretary (1989-1990), Treasurer (1991-1993); Health Physics Society, Environmental Radiation Section: Secretary-Treasurer (1994-1997); Health Physics Society, Government Section: Board Member (1992-1994);Health Physics Society, Baltimore-Washington Chapter: Vice-President (1992-1993), President (1993-1994).

Lectures

Instructor: Harold “Hal” Peterson (M.N.E, CHP) has over three decades of radiation protection experience. He has been a senior staff member and supervisor with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the DOE Office of Environment, Safety and Health. He was the Chair of the NRC Working Group for the 1991 revision of NRC’s 10 CFR Part 20 and was the project manager for Regulatory Guides 1.109 and 3.12 on nuclear reactor and uranium milling environmental dose assessment. From 1995-2002 he was the co-chair of the Federal Guidance Subcommittee of the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards and is vice chair of the American Nuclear Society Special Committee on Site Cleanup and Restoration Standards. He is a graduate of health physics training programs at the former AEC Health & Safety Laboratory (HASL) and the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

US PHS Courses: "Reactor Safety and Hazards Evaluation," (1968) and "Occupational Radiation Protection" (1969); ASME short course "Radioactive Waste Technology" (7 years) and the HPS Summer Schools on Radiological Assessment (1980) and the D & D of Nuclear Facilities (1998). Lecturer in HP certification courses sponsored by the BWCHPS (14 years) and the DVSRP (2 years) chapters of the HPS, Nucleon Lectern Associates (2 years); and at continuing education courses. Lecturer at American University, Catholic University of America, Harvard University School of Public Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the University of Maryland.

Publications

Eight book chapters and over 110 publications on environmental radionuclide transport, radiation surveillance, radiation protection standards, decommissioning, waste management, and the potential impacts of nuclear energy. Contributor to HPS Midyear Symposia on: Environmental Surveillance (1968), Health Physics Aspects of Reactor Siting (1970), Population Exposure (1974), Epidemiology Applied to Health Physics (1983), Power Reactor Health Physics (1987), ICRP, NCRP and Revised Part 20 (1991), and Environmental Health Physics (1993). Former member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (1986 - 1993) and DOE Risk Management Quarterly (1994-1998). Contributor to the 1992 and 1998 editions of the Handbook of Health Physics and Radiological Health, to Radiological Assessment (J.E. Till and H.R. Meyers, eds.), and to the Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM), 1997, 2000.

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