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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
Tuesday, November 9, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Stephen Unwin (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
David Grabaskas (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Model-Based Decomposition and Backtracking Framework for Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Automated Vehicle Systems
12:40–1:10PM EST
Linda Capito (The Ohio State Univ.), Keith Redmill (The Ohio State Univ.), Umit Ozguner (Oztech)
Paper
Quantification of Mission Reliability for Urban Air Mobility Quadcopter Using Dynamic Event Trees
1:10–1:40PM EST
Gulcin Sarici Turkmen (The Ohio State Univ.), Tunc Aldemir (The Ohio State Univ.), Srujal A. Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matilde D'Arpino (The Ohio State Univ.), Etienne Demers Bouchard (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jonathan C. Gladin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cedric Y. Justin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Safety Assessment of the Novel Distributed/Hybrid Electric Propulsion Architectures for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles
1:40–2:10PM EST
Eddie Li (Georgia Institute of Technology), Srujal A. Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matilde D'Arpino (The Ohio State Univ.), Metin F. Ozcan (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jonathan C. Gladin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cedric Y. Justin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dimitri Mavris (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Analysis of Frequency of Aircraft Impact From Overflights (This paper has been cancelled).
2:10–2:40PM EST
James C. Lin (ABSG Consulting)
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