Short Bio:
Lainy Dromgoole Cochran received her M.S. degree in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University in August 2016. She worked with Dr. Craig Marianno to do preliminary dose assessments for unsealed radioactive sources to be used as part of emergency response exercises at the TEEX Disaster City facility at Texas A&M. Using unsealed radioactive sources can enhance emergency response exercises by simulating a more realistic response environment following an incident involving the dispersion of radioactive material. A preliminary dose assessment for the exercise was performed based on conservative calculation methods used in assessments for unsealed contamination exercises performed at other sites, and radionuclides were identified that could be used for an unsealed contamination exercise at Disaster City. Cochran received a B.S. in radiological health engineering from Texas A&M University in 2013. She has completed internships at two nuclear power plants, the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Cochran successfully defended her master’s thesis in May 2016 and accapted a position at Sandia National Laboratories in support of their Nuclear Incident Response Program.
NSSPI Publications:
- D. Margot, L. Cochran, C. Jelsema, S. Dewji, "Uncertainty Propagation in ICRP 66 Human Respiratory Tract Model (HRTM) Applications in DCAL", 66th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Phoenix, Arizona, July 25-29, 2021.
- M.S. Chen, L.D. Cochran, C.M. Marianno, "Validation of a Dose Assessment Method to be Used in Loose Contamination Exercises", Journal of Health Physics, 120, 3 (2021).
- M. Chen, L. Cochran, C. Marianno, "Validation of a Dose Assessment Tool to be Used in Loose Contamination Exercises", 64th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Orlando, Florida, 7-11 July 2019.
- L.D. Cochran C.M. Marianno, "Preliminary Dose Assessment for Emergency Response Exercise Using Unsealed Radioactive Contamination", Health Physics, 117, 5, (2019).
- L. Cochran C. Marianno , "Radionuclide Selection for Emergency Response Exercise at Disaster City Using Unsealed Radioactive Contamination", Journal of Health Physics, 114, 1 (2018).
- L.D. Cochran, "Preliminary Dose Assessment for Emergency Response Exercise at Disaster City Using Unsealed Radioactive Contamination", M.S. Thesis, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2016).
- L.E. Dromgoole, C.M. Marianno, J.W. Poston, "Preliminary Dose Assessment for Emergency Response Exercise at Disaster City Using Unsealed Radioactive Contamination", 61st Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS), Spokane, Washington, 17-21 July 2016.
- C. Marianno, J.T. Falkner, T. Jacomb-Hood, J. Trevino, L. Dromgoole, M. Shah, M. Boyd, G. Emory, D. Murchison, "Mobile Radiation Detection Security Sweeps as Teaching Tool", 61st Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS), Spokane, Washington, 17-21 July 2016.
- L. Dromgoole, C.M. Marianno, J. Poston, "Preliminary Dose Assessment for Emergency Response Exercise Using Unsealed Contamination", 2016 South Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society (STC-HPS) Student Presentation and Annual Business Meeting, Bryan, Texas, 16 April 2016.
- L. Dromgoole and C.M. Marianno, "A Case for Changing I-131 Transfer Factors Based on Changes in Dairy Industry Practices", 23rd Annual National Radiological Emergency Preparedness Conference, Austin, Texas, 8-11 April 2013.
- L. Dromgoole, "A Case for Changing I-131 Transfer Factors Based on Changes in Dairy Industry Practices", Honors and Undergraduate Research. Available electronically from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154883.