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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 ETWDD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
JoAnne Hanners (DOE-Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Gregory A. Bala
Staff Producer:
Susan Gallier (American Nuclear Society)
The U.S. Department of Energy – Nuclear Energy supports student research through direct support of research and development (R&D) programs across the United States as part of the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). Additionally, the Integrated University Program (IUP) works concurrently to attract qualified nuclear science and engineering students (NS&E) to nuclear energy professions by providing undergraduate-level scholarships and graduate-level fellowships. The scholarships and fellowships are focused on two-, four-year, and graduate programs in science and engineering disciplines related to nuclear energy such as nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry, health physics, nuclear materials science, radiochemistry, applied nuclear physics, nuclear policy, radiation protection technology, nuclear power technology, nuclear maintenance technology, and nuclear engineering technology. The papers in this session are outcomes made possible by this support.
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A Novel Miniature Creep Tester for Virgin and Neutron Irradiated Clad Alloys
Lucas Maciel de Andrade Lima (North Carolina State University), Samuel Marcom (North Carolina State University), Tasnim Hassan (North Carolina State University)
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Gas Migration Phenomena Through Interfaces in Engineering Barrier Systems
Muhammad Ali-Falak (LANL), Marcelo J. Sanchez (LANL), Enrique Romero-Morales (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Effect of Heating and Drying on Clay-Barrier Gas-Permeability
Bohan Zhou (Texas A&M Univ.), Marcelo J. Sanchez (Texas A&M Univ.)
Properties of a Helium Ion Beam Degrader for Implanting SSJ2 Tensile Specimens at the LBL 88-Inch Cyclotron
Sarah Stevenson (University of California, Berkeley), Adi Ben-Artzy (UC Berkeley), Lee Bernstein (LBL), Peter Hosemann (UC Berkeley)
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