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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.”
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
Michael Reichenberger (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
John D. Bess
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Validation of Nuclear Data Using Broomstick Experiments in VR-1 Reactor
3:15–3:35PM EST
Michal Kostal (Research Center Rez), Zdeněk Matěj (Masaryk Univ.), Evzen Losa (Research Center Rez), Tomáš Czakoj (Research Center Rez), Stanislav Simakov (INR-KIT), Marek Zmeškal (Research Center Rez), Martin Schulc (Research Center Rez), Jan Šimon (Research Center Rez), Vojtěch Rypar (Research Center Rez), František Cvachovec (Masaryk Univ.), Filip Mravec (Masaryk Univ.), Václav Přenosil (Masaryk Univ.), Peter Krásný (Research Center Rez), Roberto Capote (IAEA)
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Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification in PWR Irradiation Ageing Like problems
3:35–3:55PM EST
Juan A. Monleon de la Lluvia (IRSN), Mariya Brovchenko (IRSN), Dimitri Rochman (Paul Scherrer Institute), Eric Dumonteil (CEA)
Release of SOURCES4D Featuring Sensitivity Capabilities
3:55–4:15PM EST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)
Beta-Delayed Gamma Radiation Benchmark for the ENDF/B-VIII.0 Decay Data Sub-Library
4:15–4:35PM EST
Z. Harris (Univ. Arkansas), B. Hill (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), S. Kim (Brookhaven), A. Mattera (Brookhaven), E.A. McCutchan (Brookhaven), O. Palaguachi (Colgate University), M. Seeley (Stony Brook University), A.A. Sonzogni (Brookhaven)
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