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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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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:
Joshua Hoffman (Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
William Dawn (NCSU)
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Design of a Pulsed Power Facility to Handle High Fusion Yields
Levi Welch (University of MIchigan), Ryan D. McBride (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Grant Young (Univ. of Michigan), Jack Tait (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
A Comparison of Ablative Performance of Materials for Use in Tokamak Diverter Region
Leigh Winfrey (Pennsylvania State University), Alec Cacheris (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Vincent Cintron (Pennsylvania State University), Sean R. Kosslow (Pennsylvania State University)
Photon Energy Deposition; EPEC Experiments Modeled via MCNP
Thomas Schlitt (AFIT), Darren Holland (AFIT), James Bevins (AFIT)
OpenFOAM Modeling of Beryllium Splashing in Fusion Devices
Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonwealth University), Cheng Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Fusion Material Joint and Composite Testing by Three Point Bending
Jean Paul Allain (Pennsylvania State University), John R. Echols (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lauren M. Garrison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Nathan C. Reid (University of Illinois)
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