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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
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Khadija Mahbuba (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
Quentin Faure (NCSU)
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A Review of Risk Assessment of a Dry Cask Storage System
Havva Tayfur (NC State Univ.), Alp Tezbasaran (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Paper
Fast Neutron Interrogation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Cask Monitoring
Zhihua Liu (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS), Ming Fang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Angela D. Fulvio (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
An Elastic Waveform Tomography of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks
Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi (University of Minnesota), Bojan B. Guzina (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
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