Arthur Rood

President, K-Spar Inc at Health Physics Society ANSI Standards Committee Member

Speaker

Mr. Rood received his Bachelors Degree in Geology in 1982 and his Masters in Health Physics/Radioecology from Colorado State University in 1987. He has over 30 years experience in multimedia environmental fate and transport modeling, risk assessment, and uncertainty analysis. He is a retired Advisory Scientist at the Idaho National Laboratory and currently a private consultant. Mr. Rood was a principle technical lead on performance assessments for the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Idaho CERCLA Disposal Facility at the Idaho National Laboratory, the U.S. Ecology low-level waste disposal facility in Richland Washington, and completed the performance assessment for the Remote-Handled Low-Level Waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. He has developed groundwater assessment models for CERCLA risk assessment at the Idaho National Laboratory and the food chain transport model for the MACCS probabilistic reactor consequence code. Mr. Rood has worked as a consultant on numerous studies of radiation exposures from past operations of nuclear weapons plants including Rocky Flats, the Hanford Reservation, and the former uranium mill at Uravan Colorado. Mr. Rood has provided assistance to the National Low-Level Waste program, served on the Health Physics Society ANSI Standards committee for Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material, and taught Environmental Modeling for the University of Idaho. He is the co-author of the food chain and terrestrial transport chapter in Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis, the standard textbook for environmental health physics, and a peer reviewer for Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Health Physics, and Atmospheric Environment. Mr. Rood is the author of numerous journal publications and technical reports in his field