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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 THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs
Alternate Chair:
Ran Kong (Purdue)
Session Organizer:
Dillon R. Shaver
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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CFD Analyses of an ALFRED Fuel Assembly
Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Akshat Mathur (NRG), Heleen Doolaard (NRG Arnhem)
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Preliminary Analysis of PCM Condenser Performance using CFD
Jai Oan Cho (KAIST), Hwa-Young Jung (KAIST), Sung G. Shin (KAIST), Jaehyung Sim (KAIST), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST)
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Research on the CFD Scheme to Analyze the Sublimation of Uranium Hexafluoride
Tianyu Wang (Harbin Engineering University), Zhaofei Tian (Harbin Engineering University), Hao Yan (CNNC Xinneng Engineering Co., Ltd.), Chaoran Yang (CNNC Shaanxi Uranium Enrichment Co., Ltd.), Guangliang Chen (Harbin Engineering University)
Design and Analysis of the Priority-Ranking-RIF-CFD Scheme for PWR Core
Hao Qian (Harbin Engineering University), Guangliang Chen (Harbin Engineering University), Rui Ma (China Ship Development and Design Center)
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