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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|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Canaveral 3
Session Chair:
Guillaume L. Giudicelli (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Yunlin Xu (Purdue Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Development of Neutron Energy Group Structure for FR Depletion Calculation
3:15–3:35PM EST
Masato Yamamoto (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Hiroki Koike (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Koji Asano (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
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Peacock: Development of a New Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Transport Code
3:35–3:55PM EST
William C. Dawn (Studsvik Scandpower), Charles Wemple (Studsvik Scandpower), Joshua Hykes (Studsvik Scandpower), Rodolfo M. Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower), Joel Rhodes III (Studsvik Scandpower)
Development and Verification of a Pin-by-Pin NEM-SP3 Solver
3:55–4:15PM EST
Sicheng Wang (Hanyang Univ.), Ser Gi Hong (Hanyang Univ.)
A Simple Resonance Calculation Approach for Space-Dependent Self-Shielding
4:15–4:35PM EST
Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.)
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