Nuclear Training
Services Ltd.

Nuclear Training Services Ltd. is changing! I am making an approach to complete retirement. To that end, I have decided to draw to a close the regular, if now infrequent, series of courses on Gamma-Ray Spectrometry. The course in February 2010 will be the last of the regular series. From February, courses will only be run on request and when there is an assured number of participants. This is quite an emotional step for me. I have been running these courses since the early 1980s, first at the Universities Research Reactor at Risley with John Hemingway, then at Liverpool University and latterly independently under the aegis of Nuclear Training Services Ltd. I have enjoyed all those years of peddling my homespun wisdom. Altogether, on those courses, hundreds of students have listened to my lectures and submitted to the practical exercises and I have enjoyed the company of all of them. I hope that they, in turn, found the courses enjoyable and of value. Nevertheless, retirement and a relaxed life on the Aegean island of Ikaria beckon ever more insistently. The Online Practical Gamma-Ray Spectrometry course will continue to run for the time being, although not for an indefinite time span. Contact Telephone number at the present time is: 0030 698 368 8913 PS: In due course, Nuclear Training Services Ltd. will be offered for sale. Anyone with an interest in perpetuating the company or has an interest in purchasing the course materials are welcome to make an approach. The new GammaSpectrometry.co.uk website, created to coincide with the release ofPractical Gamma-Ray Spectrometry - Edition 2, is now up and running. This carries a number of data pages, spreadsheets and example spectra that are referred to in the book. There is also a repository of test spectra and the new spreadsheet based program, SpecMaker, to enable analysts to create their own test spectra.