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Distinguished alumnus Stephen Musolino, ’76, certified health physicist with the United States Department of Energy (DOE), will present “Monitoring Radiation from Fukushima” at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, October 18, in Bulger Communication Center East 2.

Musolino, a national authority on the security of radioactive materials and radiological emergency response, spent three weeks in April at Yokota Air Base, some 25 miles northwest of downtown Tokyo and 150 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors that were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in March. Musolino worked as an assessment scientist, living on the base and working around the clock to assess field measurements of radiation as part of a DOE consequence management team deployed to monitor the radioactive releases and protect U.S. personnel and assets.

He will discuss his experiences and present the results of the DOE assessments of the environmental measurements. His talk is free and open to the public.