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On Friday, 12 December 2008, the General Assembly of the IEEE Czechoslovakia Section in Prague took official action to initiate the formation of a new NPSS Chapter.
With over 50 IEEE members present from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, leaders from the IEEE Czechoslovakia Section and the NPS Society welcomed Stanislav Pospisil as Chair of the newly formed NPSS Chapter representing nuclear scientists from both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This new chapter will be the sixth Chapter of the Czechoslovakia Section.
Pospisil has been both an IEEE and NPSS member since 2000 and has been very active in the NSS/MIC community for many years. He is the Director of the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP) of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. His institute has been a strong supporter of the IEEE and NPSS activities for several years, most recently through contributions to the 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD in Dresden, Germany.
The initiative to form the Chapter began about two years ago when Uwe Bratzler, in his function as Region-8 Chapter Coordinator for Division 4, Past Chair of the NPSS Transnational Committee and as General Chair of the 2008 NSS/MIC/RTSD in Dresden, Germany, started reaching out to Central and Eastern European countries. Through this effort, Bratzler established closer connections with other IEEE members in Prague. Discussion regarding the new NPSS chapter began at a 2007 meeting in Prague by Pospisil, Bratzler, and Jan ˆSístek, then Chair of the IEEE Czechoslovakia Section. Since then this group has been working consistently toward the formation of this new Chapter.
On Friday, 12 December 2008, at the General Assembly of the Czechoslovakia Section in Prague, with the signature of 13 chapter members, and approval of the Section, the petition to form a new chapter was ready for submission to IEEE for approval. Once this new chapter is official, NPSS will have 14 chapters world-wide.

From left to right: Lubomír Branˆcik (Czechoslovakia Section Chair), Stanislav Pospisil (Chair of the new NPSS Chapter), Uwe Bratzler (Region-8 Chapter Coordinator, Div. 4) and Jan ˆSístek (Section Vice-Chair).