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Appendix C: Biographical Summaries
Pages 133-139

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... Dr. Mettler has served as a consultant to the Peace Corps, the World Health Organization, and the International Atomic Energy Agency and was the Health Effects Team Leader for the International Chernobyl Project.
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... He has served on or chaired numerous Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Energy committees concerned with potential plutonium-caused health effects. He was a member of a National Academy of Sciences committee on "Hot Particles'' and was vice chairman of the committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, Alpha Radiation (BIER IV)
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... Committee service includes the Health Effects Group of the US-USSR Joint Coordinating Council on Nuclear Reactor Safety, the Senior Technical Review Group of the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium, and the Uranium Task Group of the National Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements.
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... Army Brigadier General. His background includes command of nuclear-capable field artillery units from battery to corps artillery level and command of Field Command, Defense Nuclear Agency (now Defense Special Weapons Agency)
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... She is a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board; and the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium, Senior Technical Review Group.
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... , Dr. Thaul developed legislation in preventive health care and research, women's health care, sexual assault services and prevention, nurse and physician pay, and health effects of environmental hazards during service.
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... He has participated in a variety of radiologic monitoring and assessments related to nuclear testing at sites worldwide including the Nevada Test Site, Marshall Islands, Mururoa-French Polynesia, and Semipalatinsk, Khazakstan. Presently, he is an adjunct faculty member at Colorado State University and associate editor of Health Physics and a member of the Health Physics Society, Society of Risk Analysis, Sigma Xi, and the International Union of Radioecologists.
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