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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
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Jin Kyun Park (KAERI)
Alternate Chair:
Vinh Dang (PSI)
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Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Advanced Thermal Hydraulic Simulations for Probabilistic Safety Assessment: Important Data for Human Reliability Quantification
10:10–10:40AM EST
C. Picoco (EDF), V. Rychkov (EDF)
Paper
Phoenix Human Reliability Analysis Method: Application to a Feed and Bleed Operation
10:40–11:10AM EST
Marilia Ramos (UCLA), Ali Mosleh (UCLA), Kanoko Nishiono (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), Haruaki Ueda (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), Yoshikane Hamaguchi (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority)
Human Factors Considerations for Automating Microreactors
11:10–11:40AM EST
Elizabeth S. Fleming (Sandia), Megan Nyre-Yu (Sandia), David L. Luxat (Sandia)
Analysis of Simulator Data for Human Error Probability Using Coupling Method
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Mahendra Prasad (BARC), Vipul Garg (BARC), Gopika Vinod (BARC)
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