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Using science to update regulatory approach to radiation protection

August 14, 2017 By Rod Adams

Excessive regulation of extremely low radiation doses increases the public fears of nuclear technology, increases the costs borne by society, and can deprive society of the full benefit of that technology.” – Edward Maher, Sc.D., Harvard University Note: Borrowed from lowdoserad.org That is a truth that Atomic Insights has recognized for many years, but the […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear regulations

Evidence suggesting LNT was fabricated as a purposeful effort to hamstring nuclear technology development

August 8, 2017 By Rod Adams

Arguments about whether or not nuclear energy should play a large role in our future energy mix often stop on the issue of cost and schedule. Even the most stubborn nuclear energy advocates cannot ignore the fact that nuclear plant construction projects have struggled with cost and schedule performance. All too many of those poorly […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT

Challenging EPA’s legal authority set strict limits on low dose radiation

May 18, 2017 By Rod Adams

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been seeking input on regulations that should be repealed, replaced or modified. The comment window opened on April 13 and closed on May 15. In response to the request, members of Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI) prepared a document containing scientifically supported arguments for eliminating regulations that contain […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear regulations, Radiation

ALARA causes and reinforces excessive fear of low dose radiation

March 25, 2017 By Rod Adams

The current practice for controlling ionizing radiation exposures is ALARA – (As Low As Reasonably Achievable). This practice is based on acceptance of the 1950s vintage assertion that all exposure to radiation, down to a single low energy gamma ray, carries a greater than zero probability of causing a genetic mutation that might result in […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, nuclear medicine pioneer and fierce critic of “no safe dose” myth

March 8, 2017 By Rod Adams

For International Women’s Day, we’d like to honor a pioneering medical physicist who developed one of the most important medical tools still in use today – radioimmunoassay. Dr. Rosalyn Yalow was a fearless pioneer in the medical physics profession. In 1977, she shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her contributions in developing […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT

Dear Scott Pruitt – Please establish modern scientific basis for radiation regulations

March 4, 2017 By Rod Adams

Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI) recently delivered a petition to Scott Pruitt, the new Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The letter, signed by 34 members or associate members of SARI, requests that Mr. Pruitt direct his Agency to revise the basis of risk-based radiation regulations. SARI members believe that regulations should be […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear regulations

Value of low dose radiation research ignored by DOE Office of Science managers

February 1, 2017 By Rod Adams

The first installment of this series, Inconvenient Low Dose Radiation Science Axed Under Obama Administration, described actions taken by Department of Energy (DOE) managers to ensure that the Low Dose Radiation Research Program that they had eliminated from their budget remained dead. They planned to prevent information about the program’s successes and future opportunities from […]

Filed Under: LDRRP saga, Health Effects, LNT

DOE execs killed respected science program studying radiation health effects. Fired PM who tried to protect science

January 30, 2017 By Rod Adams 12 Comments

Senior Department of Energy executives, several of whom were “Acting” Obama Administration appointees in roles that normally require Senate advice and consent, made decisions that eliminated unique research into the biological effects of low dose radiation in the United States. Early research results from the program are arguably sufficient to support decisions with globally important […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LDRRP saga, LNT

Nuclear highlights of Rick Perry’s confirmation hearing plus a suggested action

January 20, 2017 By Rod Adams

The Senate Energy and Environment committee, chaired by Senator Lisa Murkowski, held a confirmation hearing yesterday for former Texas Governor Rick Perry, the Trump Administration nominee for Secretary of Energy. Sam Britton, the nuclear waste specialist from the Bipartisan Policy Center, produced a valuable resource by watching the full hearing and producing a series of […]

Filed Under: decommissioning, Economics, Health Effects, LNT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine article: Fear of medical radiation is based on bad science

January 10, 2017 By Rod Adams

Radiology and nuclear medicine subject matter experts have published an article in the January 2017 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine that provides numerous reasons why people should never worry about properly controlled radiation doses used in medical imaging. The doses used are many times lower than the lowest dose at which harm might […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT

Debating validity and effects of assumption that all radiation adds risk

January 6, 2017 By Rod Adams 8 Comments

Medical Physics recently hosted a point/counterpoint debate about the effects of assuming that all radiation carries a risk that justifies application of the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle. Here is an overview of the debate proposition. The ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle is based upon the assumption that low doses of […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, hormesis, LNT

Giant new cover for Chernobyl is an engineering marvel – and a monumental waste of money

November 30, 2016 By Rod Adams

A couple of days ago, one of the largest movable structures ever built was rolled into place to surround Chernobyl Unit 4, the infamous power plant in Ukraine. That plant was destroyed more than 30 years ago when it suffered a steam explosion and fire after the operators violated a number of operating procedures with […]

Filed Under: Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Health Effects, International nuclear

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