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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:
Hyun Gook Kang (RPI)
Alternate Chair:
Xiaoxu Diao (OSU)
Session Producer:
Sam Brewer
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How to Assess a PSA Involving Passive Systems With a Number of CATHARE Code Runs Within an Industrial Context
10:10–10:40AM EST
Yann Morvan (EDF), Elisabeth Duvillard (EDF)
Paper
Development and Application of Risk Analysis Toolkit for Plant Resource Optimization
10:40–11:10AM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), S. Hess (Jensen Hughes), D. P. Morton (Northwestern Univ.), I. Popova (Texas State Univ.)
Managing Unexpected Failures of Nuclear Power Plants by Incorporating Organizational Factors Into Probabilistic Risk Assessment
11:10–11:40AM EST
Andrea Roy (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pegah Farshadmanesh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ernie Kee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Automatic Generation of Event Trees and Fault Trees: A Model-Based Approach
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), A. Alfonsi (INL), T. Aldemir (Ohio State Univ.)
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