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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
Thursday, November 11, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Matt Degonish (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Robertas Alzbutas (Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas University of Technology)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Simplified Adding and Retrieving Nuclear Data To/From LIDAR Models
12:40–1:10PM EST
Steven Prescott (INL), Michael Ziccarelli (INL), Eric Allen (Environmental Intellect)
Paper
Limit Surface Search Algorithm With Artificial Neural Network and Monte Carlo Dropout Uncertainty Quantification
1:10–1:40PM EST
Junyong Bae (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Jong Woo Park (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Deep Transformer Network for Time Series Classification: The NPP Safety Case
1:40–2:10PM EST
Bing Zha (Ohio State Univ.), Alessandro Vanni (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Tunc Aldemir (Ohio State Univ.), Alper Yilmaz (Ohio State Univ.)
IAEA Safety Report on Multi-Unit Probabilistic Safety Assessment
2:10–2:40PM EST
Shahen Poghosyan (IAEA), Ovidiu Coman (IAEA), Dennis Henneke (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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