Barringer Laboratories Announces Appointment of New Technical Director.Business Editors GOLDEN, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000 Barringer Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BALB BALB Bagg Albino (inbred research mouse strain) ) is pleased to announce the appointment of C. Mitchell Abbate to fill the newly created position of Technical Director with effect from June 1, 2000. Mitch comes to us after 14 years with the Department of Energy, 13 of them spent in a variety of senior scientific roles at the DOE's facility in Grand Junction Grand Junction, city (1990 pop. 29,034), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The shipping and processing center of a large ranch and irrigated farm region, it also serves the area's uranium, oil shale, gas, and , Colo., long regarded as one of the most technically proficient and productive radiochemistry radiochemistry, chemistry of radioactive substances (see radioactivity). Radioactive isotopes are very useful as tracers to study the mechanisms of complex organic reactions, since even minute amounts of these isotopes are easily detected by means of a Geiger counter laboratories in the country. Most recently he was a senior scientist at the DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste that is left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. (WIPP WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIPP Women Impacting Public Policy WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Project WiPP Working in Partnership Programme (UK; NHS General Medical Services) WIPP Wireless Internet Protocol Partnership ) laboratory in Carlsbad, N.M. This important appointment reflects Barringer's intention to offer the very best radiochemical technical expertise to assist in finding solutions to customer problems. Mitch has spent the last 15 years developing new radiochemical methods for dealing with difficult analytical problems and has a particular interest in developing methods that will both improve laboratory productivity (and hence capacity) and dramatically reduce the generation of laboratory waste. He is well known among the country's leading radiochemistry experts and his appointment is an important step in Barringer's plan to secure, over the next few months, a leading position in the market for testing low-level radioactive and mixed wastes. Barringer Laboratories, Inc. is a leading provider of radiochemical and mixed waste analytical services to the environmental and pollution control industries. |
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