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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:
Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Michelle (Shelby) Bensi (Univ Maryland)
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Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Improved Economics and Reliability While Maintaining High Levels of Safety -- Achievements and On-Going R&D Within RISA Pathway
12:40–1:10PM EST
Svetlana Lawrence (INL), Curtis L. Smith (INL), Diego Mandelli (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL)
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The Versatile Economic Risk Tool (VERT)
1:10–1:40PM EST
Jaden Miller (Idaho State Univ.), Spencer Ercanbrack (Idaho State Univ.), Chad Pope (Idaho State Univ.)
Multicriterion Benefit Evaluation of Deploying New Battery Technology With Increased Capacity at a Generic Nuclear Power Plant
1:40–2:10PM EST
Sai Zhang (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Hongbin Zhang (INL)
I-PRA Risk- and Cost-Informed Decision-Making Algorithm for Nuclear Power Plants
2:10–2:40PM EST
Sari Alkhatib (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ernest Kee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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