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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.”
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301A
Session Chair:
Andrew Young (University of Strathclyde)
Alternate Chair:
Cody Walker
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Automated Diagnostics of Control Rod Drive Mechanisms with Machine Learning
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Christopher Guillotte (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brian Moazen (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Zachary Becker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Presented by Chad Kiger (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
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Inference of BWR Irradiation History Employing Discharged Fuel Isotopics
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Tarikul Islam (Purdue), Shiming Yin (Purdue), Jeongwon Seo (Purdue), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue)
Transfer Learning Technique Using Similar Phenomena Training for Fuel Digital Twins of Nuclear Systems
10:50–11:15AM EDT
James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Palash Bhowmik (INL), Souvik Chakraborty (IIT Delhi), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Development of a Scalable, Risk-Informed, Predictive Maintenance Cloud Based Strategy at Nuclear Power Plants
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Cody Walker (INL), Rita Appiah (Purdue), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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