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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 MSTD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Lorenzo Vergari
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Thermophysical Properties of Molten Salts via Differential Thermoreflectance
3:15–3:35PM MST
Syed Mohammad Mujtaba Rizvi (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
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Integration of a Tritium Transport Model in SAM for FHR Modeling
3:35–3:55PM MST
Travis Mui (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Quan Zhou (Kairos Power)
Ensemble Learning for Uncertainty Estimation in Molten Salt Atomistic Simulations
3:55–4:15PM MST
Rajni Chahal (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Shubhojit Banerjee (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
First-Principles Study of Correlated Structures, Dynamics and Transport in Molten MgCl2
4:15–4:35PM MST
Shubhojit Banerjee (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Rajni Chahal (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
First-Principle Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Thermophysical Properties of LiF-NaF-ThF4
4:35–4:55PM MST
Vitor Grizzi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Y Z (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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