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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.”
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral A
Session Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Bart Verdonschot (NRG)
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A Numerical Test Bed on Algorithms Efficient for Advanced System Analysis Code Development
10:00–10:20AM EST
Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
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Implementing a Corrosion-Oxidation Modeling Capability in SAM for Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors
10:20–10:40AM EST
Travis Mui (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Severe Accident Analysis of OPR-1000 Plant Using CINEMA Code
10:40–11:00AM EST
Jun-young Kang (KAERI), Donggun Son (KAERI), Jae Hyun Ham (KAERI), Yong Mann Song (KAERI), Jun Ho Bae (KAERI)
A New One-Dimensional Model for Thermal Mixing and Stratification in Reactor Applications
11:00–11:20AM EST
Eric Cervi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Yeongshin Jeong (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Development of A System Analysis Model to Evaluate the Conceptual Design of the Reactor Cavity Cooling System of the Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HC-HTGR)
11:20–11:40AM EST
Yeongshin Jeong (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Qiuping Lv (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
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