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Radiation Chemistry

General Info
Status:	Active
Discipline:	Chemical
Initial Year:	1953
Cycle:	24 Months

Categories
Inorganic Chemistry Pharmacology and Therapeutics

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Conference Description

While ionizing radiation is physical, its effects are chemical, and entail a complex cascade of physical and chemical transformations from femtosecond to seconds (and even years in the biological effects of radiation) time scales. The conference seeks to understand the physical, chemical and biological events based on fundamental principles. While the field of Radiation Chemistry developed from the need to understand chemical processes that occur in radiation fields of nuclear reactors, in their fuel and their waste processing and storage, it has expanded to become a useful tool in understanding chemical reactivity, structures of solutions, and material and biological sciences. The chemical effects of radiation are important in biological damage from nuclear weapons, from natural radiation sources and in therapeutic uses of radiation including cancer treatment and accelerated promotion of mutations. To gain a window into fast processes accelerators were constructed to give very short pulses of radiation that can create electrons, radicals and ions on very short time scales in the technique called pulse radiolysis.

Driven by application to other disciplines, Radiation Chemistry has evolved. Radiation Chemical techniques allow exploration of important chemical questions including electron and proton transfer, where pulse radiolysis is of special value because it easily creates charges in a wide variety of media, even in weakly- or non-polar fluids. It is especially valuable for study of radical ions, free radicals, solvated electrons, redox properties, bonding phenomena and radiation effects on biological macromolecules including DNA. Additional important topics are multiphoton ionization and chemistry in the non-homogeneous solutions created by ionizing radiation. New areas of scientific excitement are emerging in fundamental chemistry of organic media and special media such as supercritical fluids and ionic liquids. A new impetus for the field is a world-wide effort including a decision by the U.S. government to seek a new generation of reactors to generate clean power. To make these new reactors and their fuel cycles safe to operate and safe from proliferation or diversion of nuclear materials will create great challenges. Those goals will require the mastery of new kinds chemistry including chemistry connected with surfaces and with highly sophisticated separations agents that must function despite intense radiation.

Meeting History

Year	Meeting Name	Dates	Conference Site	Chair(s)
2010	Radiation Chemistry Radiation Driven Processes in Physics, Chemistry and Biology	Jul 18-23	Proctor Academy	Thomas M. Orlando
2008	Radiation Chemistry Radiation Driven Processes in Physics, Chemistry and Biology	Jul 6-11	Waterville Valley Resort	David M. Bartels
2006	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 2-7	Colby College	John R. Miller
2004	Radiation Chemistry	Jun 20-25	Colby College	Jacqueline Belloni
2002	Radiation Chemistry	Jun 23-28	Colby College	Paul F. Barbara
2000	Radiation Chemistry	Jun 25-30	Plymouth State College	Klaus-Dieter Asmus
1998	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 5-10	Salve Regina University	Michael D. Sevilla
1996	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 7-12	Salve Regina University	John M. Warman
1994	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 17-22	Salve Regina University	Charles D. Jonah
1992	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 6-10	Salve Regina University	Charles L. Braun
1990	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 9-13	Salve Regina University	Alexander D. Trifunac
1988	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 11-15	Salve Regina University	Sanford Lipsky
1986	Radiation Chemistry	Jun 23-27	Brewster Academy	Myran C. Sauer
1985	Radiation Chemistry	-		Georg G. Bohm
1984	Radiation Chemistry	-		Richard W. Fessenden
1982	Radiation Chemistry	-		Gordon R. Freeman
1980	Radiation Chemistry	-		Gerhard G. Meisels
1978	Radiation Chemistry	-		Richard F. Firestone
1976	Radiation Chemistry	-		Russell H. Johnsen
1975	Radiation Chemistry	-		Larry Kevan
1973	Radiation Chemistry	-		Richard A. Holroyd
1972	Radiation Chemistry	-		J. Kerry Thomas
1971	Radiation Chemistry	-		T. Ffrancon Williams
1970	Radiation Chemistry	-		Peter J. Dyne
1969	Radiation Chemistry	-		Robert R. Hentz
1968	Radiation Chemistry	-		John E. Willard
1967	Radiation Chemistry	-		Harold A. Schwarz
1966	Radiation Chemistry	-		Leon Dorfman
1965	Radiation Chemistry	-		Robert H. Schuler
1964	Radiation Chemistry	-		Malcolm Dole
1963	Radiation Chemistry	-		Harold A. Dewhurst
1962	Radiation Chemistry	-		Ellison H. Taylor
1961	Radiation Chemistry	-		John L. Magee
1960	Radiation Chemistry	-		Max S. Matheson
1959	Radiation Chemistry	-		Warren M. Garrison
1958	Radiation Chemistry	-		William H. Hamill
1957	Radiation Chemistry	Jul 8-12	New Hampton School	C. J. Hochanadel
1956	Radiation Chemistry	-		Robert L. Platzman
1955	Radiation Chemistry	-		Edwin J. Hart
1954	Radiation Chemistry	-		A. O. Allen
1953	Radiation Chemistry	-		Milton Burton

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