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Dr. S.Y. Chen is currently a Senior Environmental Engineer and serves as Strategic Area Manager in Environmental Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois. Dr. Chen received his BS in Nuclear Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He obtained his MS and PhD, both in Nuclear Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Dr. Chen’s areas of specialty include radiation protection, environmental health risk, and nuclear accident analysis, with specific interest in nuclear waste transportation, environmental cleanup, and radioactive material and waste management. Dr. Chen is a Council member (since 1999) and served on the Board (2004 to 2011). He is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board/Radiation Advisory Committee since 2009. He is a member of the Health Physics Society and of the American Nuclear Society. He is also a Certified Health Physicist sanctioned by the American Board of Health Physics. Dr. Chen has previously served as Contamination Limits Section Chair for the American National Standards Institute/Health Physics Standards Committee and has also served as Chair of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Transportation Risk Assessment Working Group. In his current capacity at Argonne, Dr. Chen has developed an integrated risk assessment program that addresses the broad-based risk issues that DOE and other federal agencies face. These issues include the transportation of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes, cleanup of contaminated lands and environments, termination of licensed facilities, and development of a technical basis to support federal risk-based policies. His group at Argonne also developed several analytical codes that are commonly used in risk assessment, including the RISKIND Code for transportation risk analysis and RESRAD family of codes for environmental cleanup analysis. Dr. Chen has served many capacities at NCRP including chairing SC 87-4 that led to the publication of Report No. 141, Managing Potentially Radioactive Scrap Metal (2002); he is currently chairing SC 5-1, Approach to Optimizing Decision Making for Late-Phase Recovery from Nuclear or Radiological Terrorism Incidents.
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