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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
P. L. Gray
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 3 | June 1966 | Pages 213-220
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27589
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After nearly two years of nuclear operation, personnel entered the pressure vessel of the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor (HWCTR) to repair and modify a gas baffle near the core while irradiated fuel remained in the reactor. The work, which involved removing virtually all the reactor internal components down to the reactor core, was completed in about three weeks. Appropriate shielding and special clothing kept radiation exposure of personnel within allowable Savannah River Plant guides.