U.S. Department of Energy drops ALARA, challenging global radiation safety norms as reforms and debates intensify.

Is the ALARA principle limiting holistic decision-making by sidelining cost considerations? If so, should it be re-examined?

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – Head of the Radioactive Waste Management Office of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor) Dmitry Pavlov explained ...

After two weeks of online discussions at the International Conference of Radiation Safety, more than 2000 participants including experts from 140 Member States and 13 International Organizations, ...

For many years NRC (AEC)-licensed activities using by-product materials have been taking place at Michigan Technological University. Early in 1991, the University changed from an NRC broad scope ...

Medical exposure is the largest human-made source of radiation exposure, accounting for more than 95% of radiation exposure. Furthermore, the use of radiation in medicine continues to increase ...

The decision to build the Belarusian nuclear power plant was made in 2008. A lot has been done since then. The first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant became operational in 2021. It gave a ...

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International regulators are increasingly cooperating to evaluate the safety of new small modular reactor ...

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