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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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A closer look at NRC’s proposed rule eliminating ALARA
On July 1, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed removing the “as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA) principle from its radiation protection regulations and replacing it with a graded approach. The agency also proposed increases to effluent dose limits and adjusting how it handles allowances for exceeding dose limits.
Technical Session|Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls (HFICD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Governor's Square 15
Session Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Samrendra Roy
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Unsupervised Detection of High-Z Anomalies in Cargo Containers Using Muon Scattering Data
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Reshma Ughade (Purdue Univ.), William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
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Exploratory Data Analysis of Adverse Weather Event Discovery for Nuclear Safety
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Xiao-Ying Yu (ORNL)
Data-Centric Strategies for Enhancing Surrogate Reliability Under Input Uncertainty
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Samrendra Roy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder, Syed Bahauddin Alam
3-D Power Reconstruction in SMRs Using Neural Networks with Ex-core/In-core Temperature
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Minhyeok Bang, Junwoo Lee, Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
A Web-Based Visualization Platform for Nuclear Machine Learning Based Methods with Explainability Metrics
4:35–4:55PM MDT
Taazhykan Kurumshieva (Purdue Univ.)