Nuclear engineers work in conjunction with health physicists to assure that all activities involving radiation exposure to nuclear power plant workers or to the public are kept well below the U.S. requirements stated in Title 10, Part 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 20). In fact, the current industry practice is to apply the ALARA (‘‘as low as reasonably achievable’’) principle to every exposure-related activity. To this end, nuclear engineers have been widely successful in designing nuclear plants that limit the dose to the public. (more…)
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