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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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INL makes a case for eliminating ALARA and setting higher dose limits
A report just released by Idaho National Laboratory reviews decades of radiation protection standards and research on the health effects of low-dose radiation and recommends that the current U.S. annual occupational dose limit of 5,000 mrem be maintained without applying ALARA—the “as low as reasonably achievable” regulatory concept first introduced in 1971—below that threshold.
Noting that epidemiological studies “have consistently failed to demonstrate statistically significant health effects at doses below 10,000 mrem delivered at low dose rates,” the report also recommends “future consideration of increasing this limit to 10,000 mrem/year with appropriate cumulative-dose constraints.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, June 13, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
Annabelle Le Coq (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Troy Munro
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Compatibility of 316H in Static and Flowing FLiBe and FLiNaK Salts at 550°-650°C
D. Sulejmanovic (ORNL), B.A. Pint (ORNL), M. Lance (ORNL), Y.F. Su (ORNL), J.R. Keiser (ORNL)
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Analysis of High Nickel Alloys Partially Submerged in a Ternary Chloride Salt
Aaron Overacker (Univ. New Mexico), Kenneth Armijo (Sandia), Dimitri Madden (Sandia), Patrick Burton (Sandia), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
Development of Crystal Whisker Structures in Ternary Molten Chloride Salt Exposed Haynes 230
Dimitri Madden (Sandia), Aaron Overacker (Sandia), Kenneth M. Armijo (Sandia), Patrick Burton (Sandia)
A Combined Experimental-Computational Approach to Design Corrosion Resistant Alloys for Molten Salt Reactors
R. Pillai (ORNL), C. Parker (ORNL), D. Sulejmanovic (ORNL), B.A. Pint (ORNL)
Design of Natural Circulation Molten Salt Loop to Study Long-Term Corrosion Effects of NaF-BeF2 on SS316H in Argon Glovebox Environment
Michael A. Borrello (Univ. California, Berkeley), Christian M. Sclafani (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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