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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|3:15–5:00PM EDT|301E
Session Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Alternate Chair:
Alexander H. Hashemian
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Coolant Pump Predictive Data Analytics from Signatures Generated by the Recursive Short Time Fast Fourier Transform
3:15–3:40PM EDT
James A. Smith (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Development of a Heat Pipe Based Testbed for Online Monitoring of Microreactors
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Shawn Tyler (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Jacob Houser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Alexander Hashemian (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Presented by Adam Deatherage (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
The ARENA Test Bed -- A Versatile Resource for I&C Development and Validation
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Samuel W. Glass III (PNNL), Mychal P. Spencer (PNNL), Matthew S. Prowant (PNNL), Aishwarya Sriraman (PNNL), Jiyoung Son (PNNL), Leonard S. Fifield (PNNL)
Small Modular Reactor Condensate and Feedwater System Maintenance Methods by Utilizing Event Modeling Risk Assessment Using Linked Diagram
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Saeed Alhadhrami (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Steven Prescott (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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