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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|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301D
Session Chair:
Thomas A. Ulrich
Alternate Chair:
Rachael Hill
Session Organizer:
Jonghyun Kim
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Experience of Implementation and Use of Dynamic Instructions in MCR
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Javier Barroso (Tecnatom), Mateo Ramos (Tecnatom)
Paper
The Concept of Seamless Dynamic Emergency Operating Procedure
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Jung Sung Kang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Generation-Proof Alarm Design
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Reginald Seay (Jacobs Technology)
Developing Expertise and Collaboration of Nuclear Power Plant Field Operators in Virtual Reality
2:15–2:40PM EDT
S. Pakarinen (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health), J. Laarni (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), T. Passi (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health), H. Koskinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), K. Lukander (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health), T.-T. Salonen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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