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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.”
20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)
Education: M,S, Ph.D. and Habilitation (D.Sc.) in Nuclear Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; MS in Mathematics, University of Warsaw.
Served on RPI faculty since 1980 (retired on June 30, 2020), as Professor, Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, and Director of Center for Multiphase Research. Also, was invited as a visiting professor to Oregon State University (1979-80) and MIT (2010-11).
Honors and Awards:
Technical expert for the US government and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Professional consultant for numerous institutions and industrial organizations in the US and overseas.
Gave a total of nearly 140 plenary and keynote lectures, seminars and other invited talks.
Author or co-author of over 360 peer-reviewed publications and books/book-chapters, including 70 archival papers published in the following journals:
Int. J. of Multiphase Flow, J. of Heat Transfer, Physics of Fluids, J. of Fluids Engineering, J. of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Int. J. - Heat and Technology, Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Int. J. - Chemical Engineering Communications, Archives of Thermodynamics, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Nanotechnology, Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics, J. of Power and Energy Systems, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Computers & Fluids, Nucl. Sci. and Eng., Nucl. Technology, Nucl. Eng. and Des., Nucl. Eng. and Technology, Atomkernenergie, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations.
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