# Nuclide record alara (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/alara/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "alara" ;
  schema:name "ALARA (as low as is reasonably achievable)"@en ;
  schema:description "A rule that radiation should always be kept as low as practically possible, not just below the legal limit, taking into account cost, technology and benefit."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/alara/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/part020-1003.html>, <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/chapter-I/part-20> ;
  nuclide:tag "NRC", "radiation protection", "10 CFR Part 20" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/radiation-safety-officer/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/hot-lab/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/dose-calibrator/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/authorized-user/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/gamma-probes-dose-calibrators/> .