Technical Assistance Providers for Radiological Material

The following list of organizations or businesses providing technical assistance is compiled in response to the 1995 regulatory reform act (Chapter 403, Laws of 1995) from information submitted by the organizations listed. The presence or absence of an organization on this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of Health.

ADT Fire and Security

11824 Northcreek Parkway North, Suite 105, Bothell, WA 98011

Phone: 800-582-6148 Ext: 3651

ADT has appropriate solutions for businesses affected by the NRC Order for Increased Controls. Interested businesses can contact ADT for a no-obligation risk assessment.

Alion Science and Technology

Warrenville, IL Office

Phone: 630-393-1215

Brandon, VT Office

Phone: 505-490-9148

Alion's expertise helps develop and manage decommissioning programs in a safe, cost-effective manner, compliant with all regulatory requirements. Services include decommissioning cost estimates, document preparation, focused safety program, independent assessments, industrial archaeology, licensing support, oversight reviews, program or project development, management, planning and support, selection of appropriate technologies, and waste management.

Alpha Neutronics, Inc.

Andrew Pitts

11534 Trickey Road, Houston, TX 77067

Phone: 281-872-0075

Equipment and service for companies/organizations to monitor radioactive material in transit or in a remote location. The system allows for command, custody, and control of radioactive assets. The GPS location, time/date,radiation count (GM tube), status of source, personnel in charge of source, changing alarm states are all available online. We use satellite and cellular communications.

Anvil Corporation

Kathleen Pappas

1675 West Bakerview Road, Bellingham, WA 98226

Phone: 360-937-0777

Cell: 360-770-7577

Instrument calibration.

American Portable Nuclear Gauge Association (APNGA)

George Marshall, Director

15105 Bitterroot Way, Rockville, MD 20853

Phone: 240-888-6426 or 301-929-9771

Email: gmarchall@apnga.com

Internet-based gauge safety training for moisture-density gauges. APNGA offers in-depth classes for gauge safety, USDOT HAZMAT refresher, RSO, annual employee refresher and do-it-yourself annual audits. Other free materials available online include tutorials, links and FAQs, gauge product, and service advice and directories.

Applied Medical Physics in Radiology Inc.

Medical Physicists: Charles Anthony Giomuso, MS, MBA; Lenny Borrelli, MS; Jessie Abazid, MS; Beth Dukeman, MS; Kyle Luttrell, MS

8730 Sanctuary Drive, Kirtland Hills, Ohio 44060

Phone: 216-272-4669

Fax: 440-256-0056

Email: chuck@amprinc.com

Full medical physics support, American College of Radiology testing, diagnostic radiology calibrations, servicing accounts nationwide.

Atomic Energy Industrial Laboratories

Steven H. Allen

9261 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77054-2514

Phone: 713-790-9719

Film badge service, survey instrumentation calibration, source leak tests, radiation environmental surveys, neutron activation analysis, liquid scintillation spectrometry, contract research, and consultation on nuclear safety and applications.

Attenuation Environmental Company

Doris A. Minor

P.O. Box 30537, Seattle, WA 98103

Phone: 206-783-3208 Voice

Fax: 206-783-3989 Fax

Email: doris@attenuation.us.com

Engineering and regulatory assistance for safe management of radioactive, hazardous, dangerous, and mixed wastes. AEC develops effective strategies for decommissioning and closure based on MARSSIM and other regulatory guidance, and produces well-accepted historical site assessments, decontamination and decommissioning plans, and decommissioning funding plans. AEC supports environmental investigations of sites contaminated with radioactive materials, and performs sampling and analysis plan development, radiological data analysis, and radiological impacts modeling.

Baltzo Health Physics Services

Ander Baltzo

P.O. Box 82900, Kenmore, WA 98028

Phone: 425-908-7586

Calibration and leak testing, consulting, surveys, medical physics services, and decommissioning.

B & B Environmental Safety, Inc.

Washington Field Office – Willie Bremer

Phone: 925-209-3387

California Office – Kenneth S. Baugh

Phone: 209-858-4447

Environmental services company with expertise in radiation safety, radiological remediation, and radioactive/mixed waste brokerage. Experience in the many disciplines of environmental/radiological safety and mixed waste remediation from marketing and contract management, to free release of property and structures. We provide regulatory consulting, license closures, operational support, meter calibration, sampling and analysis and radiological/mixed waste brokerage, mold inspection/remediation.

Cascade Health Physics Services

Joyce Chambers

P.O. Box 83, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-0083

Phone: 425-418-1595

Email: cascadehps@gmail.com

Radiation safety program management, surveys, leak testing, and decommissioning.

C&I Engineering, LLC

Jared Walther, Sales Manager

369 Falcon Ridge Street, Richland, WA 99352

Phone: 509-628-2885 (Richland)

Phone: 623-882-0323

Cell: 618-521-6923

Consultants, staff augmentation support, and plant design modifications in the following fields: electrical, mechanical, I+C, civil, digital upgrade, and backlog engineering. Services include cost/procurement engineering, decommission-HP tech quality control, digital upgrades, EMI RFI assessment evaluation and troubleshooting, field engineering, general engineering, maintenance support for plant outages, management information systems, modification retrofit construction, planners and procedure writers, plant restart recovery, project management, security engineering, system engineering, wireless network design.

Columbia Energy and Environmental Services, Inc.

Mark Morgan

1806 Terminal Drive, Richland, WA 99354

Phone: 509-946-7111

Fax: 509-946-9365

Email: cees@columbia-energy.com

Full service engineering company providing conceptual, preliminary and final designs, through construction and operations. Extensive regulatory/permitting/licensing expertise in national and state environmental rules and procedures, Clean Air Act Clean Water Act. Experienced in air and water sampling and analysis, both radioactive and non-radioactive, including modeling potential impacts to air and groundwater, characterization and decommissioning including in-situ tritium and carbon-14 measurement.

Corwin Health Physics Inc.

Jeremy L. Corwin, Certified Health Physicist

P.O. Box 1707, Centralia, WA 98531

Phone: 360-736-6066

Fax: 360-736-6066

Email: jeremy@corwinhp.com

Medical health physics services including radioactive material licensing, consulting, safety audits, training, radiation shielding design, leak testing, surveys, dose calibrator testing, radiographic equipment testing (mammography, X-ray, CT), decommissioning.

EIC Environmental Health & Safety

9792 Edmonds Way, Suite 120, Edmonds, WA 98020

Phone: 425-670-1638

Email: EICEHS@aol.com

Jim Denovan Ph.D., Certified Health Physicist

Barb Denovan, Environmental Engineer

Radiation safety program development, consulting, audits, radioactive materials licensing and amendments. Training in radiation, chemical and biological safety, and emergency spill response. Online radiation safety training for lab workers.

F & J Specialty Products Inc.

404 Cypress Road, Ocala, FL 34472

Phone: 352-680-1177

Email: fandj@fjspecialty.com

Manufactures traditional and microprocessor-controlled air sampling systems, airflow calibrators, tritium collection systems, and lightweight emergency-response air samplers, including portable beta continuous air monitors. Also manufactures radioiodine collection cartridges, such as TEDA-impregnated charcoal and silver zeolite cartridges.

Health Physics Northwest

11535 S.W. 67th, Tigard, OR 97223

Phone: 800-762-8444

Email: hpnw@hpnw.com

Gene Wollan, MS, Medical Physicist, President

Experts in radiation shielding design, ACR certification in MRI, CT and mammography (digital, film screen, stereotactic), X-ray evaluations, nuclear medicine audits, instrument calibration and repair, radioactive materials licensing, radiation safety training, and radiation protection consulting.

Hevly Technical Services

331 Valley Mall Parkway #352, East Wenatchee, WA 98802

Phone: 509-630-2686

Email: hevly@hevly.net

Portable and fixed gauge services for municipal road departments, geotechnical engineering firms, materials testing labs, asphalt companies and college engineering programs throughout the western United States, Hawaii, and Alaska. Services include radioactive materials Licensing application and renewal assistance and support, independent on-site safety program audit and assessment, certified gauge operator training classes, refresher-recurrent training that fulfills U.S. Department of Transportation requirements for shipping and receiving radioactive materials, NVLAP dosimetry badge service provider, leak test kits, re-sale and rental of reconditioned portable gauges, fixed gauge decommission, leak testing, documentation, shipping and disposal, portable nuclear gauge service, repair and calibration.

Integrated Environmental Management, Inc. IEM

Offices are located in Knoxville, TN, and Rockville, MD.

Carol D. Berger, C.H.P.

Phone: 301-762-0502

Consulting and services in the areas of radiation, radioactivity, nuclear science, health physics, and the environment.

IRSC, Inc.

7 Cabot Place, 3rd Floor, Stoughton, MA 02072

Phone: 877-266-0794

Email: info@irsc-inc.com

Specializes in government safety approvals of instruments containing radioactive devices. Services include end-user licensing and registration, international support for demonstration, evaluation, type approval, and end user licensing and registration, leak test kits, licensing for research and development, manufacturing, and distribution, manufacturing and quality standards, radiation safety training and program audits, device registration, radioactive source registration, X-ray support for manufacturers and end users.

ISS Health Physics

Tim Schultz, CNMT, NCT

P.O. Box 359, Milton, WA 98354

Phone: 253-678-7869 or 253-678-7867

Fax: 253-815-0089

Email: bdauburn@comcast.net

Services include radioactive materials license application assistance, health physics consultation, dose calibrator accuracy, linearity and geometry, calibration of well counters, quarterly/annual health physics audits, leak testing for sealed sources (Co57, Ba133, Cs137), vials and flood sources. Radiation safety refresher training for nuclear medicine technologists. Assistance with new nuclear medicine department design and equipment purchases.

Paul E. Kinahan, Ph.D and Thomas Lewellen, Ph.D, Consultants

Paul E. Kinahan, Ph.D.

8002 39th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115

Phone: 206-526-7093

Tom K. Lewellen, Ph.D.

673 Bywater Way N, Port Ludlow, WA 98365

Phone: 206-498-4501

Consultants in computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), PET/CT, and nuclear medicine imaging. Provide testing and evaluation services for medical imaging using PET, dual PET and X-ray CT scanners and general nuclear medicine imaging scanners. Perform NEMA and ACR testing and provide general consulting on imaging physics issues.

Kirner Consulting

Nancy P. Kirner, CHP

6108 Nahane West NE, Tacoma, WA 98422-4225

Phone: 253-927-3663

Fax: 253-924-1177

General health physics services including radioactive materials licensing; environmental monitoring program design and implementation; radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste identification, characterization, minimization, and management; NORM; radiological air permitting; training; ALARA; and audits. In addition, provides consultation on ISO 14000 compatible environmental management system development and implementation.

Landauer, Inc.

Bill Megale

2 Science Road, Glenwood, IL 60425-1586

Phone: 800-323-8830 or 708-755-7000

Personnel dosimetry.

Lucas Engineering and Management Services

Clifford J Stephan, CHP

1201 Jadwin, Suite 102, Richland, WA 99354

Phone: 509-942-1080

Fax: 509-942-1081

Email: cstephan@lucasinc.com

Specializes in radiation health physics services and waste brokerage including radiological surveys (site characterization sampling surveys, decontamination and decommissioning surveys), site characterization, decontamination, remediation, demolition, and decommissioning support, preparation of radionuclides for transport, transfer and shipping, consultation about radioactive waste storage and processing, isolation and identification of radioactive material.

MTS, Inc.

Steve Tucker

PO Box 97245, Lakewood, WA 98497

Phone: 253-686-9000

Email: mtsinc@comcast.net

Training specialists for portable nuclear gauges; offering operator, RSO and HazMat onsite training. Also available for radiation safety program audits, consulting, radioactive materials licensing support.

North American Scientific

20200 Sunburst Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311

Phone: 818-734-8600

8300 Aurora Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98103

Phone: 206-789-3380

Radioactive standards and therapeutic radiation oncology sources.

Northwest Medical Physics Center

Lawrence E. Sweeney, Ph.D., Radiological Physicist

Roentgen Hall, 21031 67th Avenue West, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Phone: 425-672-2841

Barrier calculations for X-ray machines and therapy treatment planning.

Northwest Technical Services Inc.

Steve Jacks

8516 200th St. SE, Snohomish, WA. 98296

Phone: 206-909-5128

Email: steve@nw-technical.com

Calibration and repair services for portable nuclear moisture/density gauges manufactured by InstroTek, CPN International and Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc. Services include new and used equipment and accessories; new and used gauge sales, gauge rental, timely gauge repair, three-block precision calibration, trained and certified technicians. Optional pick-up and delivery..

NSSI

P.O. Box 34042, Houston, TX 77234

Phone: 713-641-0391

Decommissioning, training, consulting, compliance surveys, and waste service including mixed wastes and waste treatability studies.

NV5

Steve Bump, CHP

1835 Terminal Drive, Suite 200, Richland, WA 99354

Phone: 509-308-6364

Fax: 509-946-4412

Email: Steve.Bump@NV5.com

Radiation Safety Professionals able to assist in every step of the radiation protection process. Dade Moeller, an NV5 company can help with the application of your license to the closure and decommissioning of your site and all points in between. With 20 Certified Health Physicists and Health Physicists, Radiological Engineers, and Radiation Safety Technicians, can work beside you to address any radiological challenge you have. Our expertise includes dosimetry and instrument programs, independent assessments/audits, surveys, risk analysis/assessment, regulatory compliance, radionuclide transport and biosphere modeling, NORM, and radiation safety training. We also provide Occupational Safety Support with Certified Industrial Hygienists, Certified Safety Professionals, and Professional Engineers.

Olympic Health Physics, LLC

Eric Hooper, MS, CHP, DABSNM

2815 N. Cheyenne Street, Tacoma, WA 98407

Phone: 253-432-2806

Email: eric@olympichealthphysics

Radioactive material licensing, consulting, and audits. Diagnostic medical physics services to include nuclear medicine audits, nuclear medicine and PET physics testing, MQSA testing, CT physics testing, shielding calculations, radiation safety training, radiation safety surveys, X-ray system calibrations, and decommissioning.

Pacific Health Physics

Michael Simmons

6947 Coal Creek Parkway SE #188, Newcastle, WA 98059-3159

Phone: 425-228-2932

Medical and biotechnical radiation safety program audits, consulting and training, laboratory surveys, decommissioning, survey meter calibration, dose calibrator QA testing, leak testing, and radiographic equipment testing.

Pacific Nuclear Technology Company

William Mancuso

2545 W 10th Street, Suite N, Antioch, CA 94509

Phone: 925-706-8300 or 800-706-3395

Leak testing and radiation safety training (user and RSO), service, and calibration for portable gauges.

Panther Systems

Post Office Box 5279

3111 NE 66th Avenue, Vancouver, WA 98668-5279

Phone: 360-750-9783

Services and leak testing of fixed gauging devices.

Perma-Fix

2025 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354

Phone: 509-375-5160

Waste processing and brokering, licensing, decontamination, decommissioning, radiological assessment, leak testing, characterization, and environmental surveillance.

Perma-Fix Environmental Services

1940 N.W. 67th Place, Gainesville, FL 32653

Phone: 1-800-365-6066

Waste management facility, licensed and permitted to receive radioactive, mixed and hazardous waste for processing and disposal. The facility processes mixed organic waste for hospitals and research facilities. An expanded radioactive license now allows receipt of sealed sources, special nuclear materials, byproducts or NORM, in either liquid or solid form. On-site remediation, extensive mixed waste laboratory and a research and development program for "orphan wastes" also are available.

Pickering Enterprises

John Pickering, MS-Health Physics, MA-Instructional Technology

P.O. Box 2008, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Phone: 925-337-3746

Specialize in radiation safety and training development, general health physics services including radioactive materials licensing and X-ray registration, program design and implementation. Supports management or oversight of dosimetry programs, calibrating instruments, processing radioactive samples and sealed source leak kits. Experience with university, medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, and industrial facilities.

PM Testing Laboratory, Inc.

Patrick Murphy

4630 16th Street East, Suite B-18, Tacoma, WA 98424

Phone: 206-922-1321

Calibration.

Proxtronics Dosimetry, LLC

NVLAP Lab Code: 200940-0

85 South Bragg Street, Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22312

Contact: Mr. W. Guy Davis

Phone: 703-270-9600

Fax: 571-335-4628

Email: wgdavis@proxtronics.com

Radiation management, dosimetry, health physics and environmental advisory services.

Qal-Tek Associates

Jerald Trude, Professional Service Representative

3998 Commerce Circle, Idaho Falls, ID 83401

Phone: 1 888-523-5557 Ext. 41

Fax: 208-524-8470

Email: Jtrude@Qaltek.com

NRC-licensed service provider for radiation protection and radioactive material licensees. One of two A2LA-accredited laboratories in the United States for instrument calibrations. Support services include calibration, maintenance, repair, sales, and installation of all types and models of radiation detection instruments and monitoring systems, dose reconstruction studies, radioactive material licensing support, training for RSO, fixed gauge, portable gauge, radiation workers, radiation surveys, leak tests, dosimetry services, radioactive source disposals (all isotopes).

Quality Assurance Services, Inc.

Glenn Deacon, MSEE, M.S., Medical Physicist

1500 Via Hacienda, Chula Vista, CA 91913

Phone: 888-727-2550 (Telephone & Fax)

Email: qasinc@qaservices.net

Survey meter calibrations, sealed source leak testing, licensing and amendments, annual audits, safety training for radiation, chemical, biological safety, and industrial, waste management, risk management, radiation safety in nuclear medicine and ALARA audits, calibration of radiographic, locally fluoroscopic, and mammography units.

RACE - Radiological Assistance, Consulting and Engineering

William G. Webb

6600 Stage Road, PMB #126-622, Bartlett, TN 38134

Phone: 901-373-5182

Fax: 901-382-1719

Radiological training, radioactive material transportation, source identification and removal, decontamination services, radiation safety program consulting, independent audits, implementation of radiation detection systems, and employee training.

Radiation Detection Company

8095 Camino Arroyo, Gilroy, CA 95020

Phone: 408-842-2700

Fax: 408-847-2988

Film, TLD, environmental and extremity dosimetry, instrument calibrations, radiation surveys, sealed source leak testing analysis, radiation worker training, and health physics consultation.

Radiation Service and Support

James Eisenhart

P.O. Box 3039, Battle Ground, WA 98604

Phone: 360-369-6549

Cell: 360-601-0019

Leak testing, service and safety training on fixed and portable gauges, start-ups, installation and removal, transfer or disposal of units, and routine maintenance and calibration of units.

Seltech Manufacturers Representative Inc

Clyde Makinson

Richland, WA

Phone: 509-943-5288 or toll free 888-633-2340

Email: clyde@owt.com

Serving the area with products for radiation safety, health physics, laboratory analysis, and process monitoring applications.

Technical sales representative for Ludlum Measurements.

http://www.ludlums.com

http://www.medphys.ludlums.com/

Sound Medical Physics

Ray Luse

15508 N. Shady Slope Rd, Spokane WA 99208

Phone: 509-991-9094

Email: ray.luse02@gmail.com

Medical health physics services including radioactive materials licensing and amendments, consulting, ALARA audits and training. Services include radiation shielding design and environmental surveys for X-ray, CT, PET and nuclear medicine facilities, leak testing, and radiographic equipment testing and decommissioning.

Stan A. Huber

200 North Cedar Road, New Lenox, IL 60451

Phone: 1-800-383-0468 or 815-485-6161

Consulting, leak testing, calibration, training, decontamination, and decommissioning.

Suntrac Services Inc.

1818 E. Main Street, League City, TX 77573

Phone: 1-800-579-4513

Radiological safety consulting, sealed source leak testing, radiation survey meter repair and calibration, radiation instrumentation rental and sales, radiation dosimetry services, and radiation safety training.

TestAmerica Laboratories, Inc.

Jodie Carnes

2800 George Washington Way, Richland, WA 99354

Phone: 509-375-3131

Radiochemical analysis services for radiobioassay and environmental samples to support commercial, community and government clients, with emphasis on analysis at very low concentrations. Parameters analyzed range from tritium to curium using appropriate instrumentation and techniques, such as liquid scintillation spectrometry, alpha spectroscopy, gamma spectroscopy, gas proportional counting, alpha scintillation counting, and kinetic phosphorescence analysis.

TetraTechEC

12100 NE 195th Street, Suite 200, Bothell, WA 98011

Phone: 425-482-7600

Consulting, risk assessment, NORM waste management, decontamination and decommissioning, and radiation safety training.

Thomas Gray & Associates, Inc.

1205 West Barkley Avenue, Orange, CA 92868

Phone: 714-997-8090

Fax: 414-997-3561

Offers radioactive and mixed waste packaging, transportation, and disposal. Services include supercompaction of solids, solidification of liquids, sealed source stabilization, storage for decay and then disposal via incineration, incineration of organic scintillation cocktails, and treatment and disposal of other mixed (radioactive and dangerous) waste streams.

UPA Technology

Michael Justice

8963 Cincinnati-Columbus Road, West Chester, OH 45069

Phone: 513-755-1280

Email: info@upa.com

UPA Technology provides leak testing, disposal, replacement and technical support for sealed beta sources manufactured by Oxford, CMI, Fischer, Twin City International, and Veeco Instruments.

Vista Engineering Technologies, LLC

Dr. Wes Bratton

1355 Columbia Park Trail, Richland, WA 99352

Phone: 509-737-1377

Fax: 509-737-1383

Specializes in technical fields including planning and collection of defensible data, mapping and modeling of results, engineering innovative solutions, and sustainable energy projects. Vista also provides subject matter experts in nuclear ventilation systems, technical training for ventilation system design and code, and standard interpretation for WAC and BACT/TBACT analysis. Staff includes environmental, mechanical, civil, chemical, electrical, materials, and nuclear engineers and scientists with advanced degrees, professional licenses and certifications.

XPERT, Inc.

Nick Cecil

Overlake Business Park, Building D, Unit D

14930 Northeast 31st Circle, Redmond, WA 98052

Phone: 425-556-9111

Calibration and repair of nuclear medicine gamma cameras, and computer systems.

Michael J. Zittle, MHP, CHP

Radiological Health Physicist

18018 Stone Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133

Phone: 541-207-3094

Email: zeppyzittle@gmail.com

General health physics services including radioactive materials licensing, radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste identification, characterization, minimization, management and disposal, training, surveys, program audits, and radiation protection consulting. Radioactive material shipping and DOT/IATA shipper training. Specialize in radiation shielding design.