Dear Eyal,

 

Excellent.  We may eventually need a letter, but for now if we can decide on the exact days for our visit that would be great.  I’m assuming that we’ll stay in Tel Aviv and hold most of our meetings at SNRC?  I think both Naomi and I would like to visit with Aldo at Weizmann to see his new instrument, and I’m not sure if there is a reason to go to ROTEM for a discussion on particles? 

 

We would probably arrive on Aug 29, depart early Sept 2, so we would have Aug 30 – Sept 2 for meetings.  We might be able to squeeze into 2 days if we do not go to ROTEM, but thought we should plan for three days given the number of topics we have to cover.  Does this sound okay?

 

Best regards,

Steve

 

 

 

 

From: Eyal Elish <elishey@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 10:08 PM
To: Lamont, Stephen Philip <lamont@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Working visits to US

 

Dear Steve,

 

The week of August 28 is good with all of us here.

 

I suggest that we will begin to plan the visit and develope the agenda during the next days.

 

Do you need a letter of invitation?

 

Regards, Eyal.

 

בתאריך יום ב׳, 25 ביולי 2022, 19:09, מאת Lamont, Stephen Philip ‏<lamont@lanl.gov>:

Dear Eyal,

 

We have tentative approval from DOE headquarters to set up a visit for the week of August 28, if that still works with your schedule.  They would like us to use this opportunity for a “post-COVIID catch up” meeting to discuss each collaboration topic, where we are at, and where we would like to go over the next several years.  This would also be an opportunity to plan for the workshop you describe below that would involve a larger number of scientists.  We are very supportive of the workshop idea, and especially like the idea of the scientists for each topic area getting to spend some time together outside of meeting with the entire group (this might make it easier to justify a larger contingent of travelers too). 

 

For this trip, it would likely only be me, one person from LLNL, and maybe one person from NNSA.

 

In addition to catching up and planning, we would still be able to spend some time discussing real technical work accomplished over the past two years, including the stable O measurements, radiochronometry, and we can give an update on our low-background counting progress.

 

Would that be okay? 

 

Best regards,

Steve

 

 

 

From: Eyal Elish <elishey@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:08 AM
To: Marks, Naomi E. <marks23@llnl.gov>; Lamont, Stephen Philip <lamont@lanl.gov>; Kristo, Michael J. <kristo2@llnl.gov>
Cc: eyaly <eyaly@nrcn.gov.il>; Dan Berkovits <berkova@soreq.gov.il>; Michal Brandis <michalas@soreq.gov.il>; Maor Assulin <maor.assulin@weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Working visits to US

 

Dear Naomi and Steve,

 

I am writing to you regarding the possible option for a working visit of IAEC forensic scientists, at LLNL and LANL, as suggested by Naomi during our meeting at IAEA, last April.

 

If that option is still relevant both for NRCN and SNRC, I want to suggest the following:

Topics will include:

 

 -          Comparative uranium particles isotopic measurements

Israel: TOF-SIMS at Rotem, TQ-ICPMS at SNRC, MC-ICPMS (GSI\WIS)

US: LG-SIMS and more instrumentation for your decision

 

-          Comparative oxygen isotopic measurements (specific materials will be decided later)

Israel: LF-IRMS at WIS

US: Experimental system at LLNL and LANL (if the system will be ready)

 

 

-          Radio- chronometry – Dating techniques, 234/230 and 235/231

 

-          Workshop on isotopic HPGe measurements

 

-          Uranium particles age dating

 

Upon decision regarding the topics, we will assign 2-3 scientists for each one. I suggest a two-week visit (including the flights in and out). However, I am not familiar with your restrictions or limitations regarding the time suggested, so it's up to you.

 

Please let me know if the above is acceptable, and please make necessary changes/additions if needed.

 

Best wishes,

Eyal.