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Radiation Victims Are Not Black Swans

July 16, 2012 By Guest Author

By Ted Rockwell An increasingly used anti-nuclear argument claims “it is impossible to prove the non-existence of something,” therefore we can’t be sure that low-dose radiation is harmless. Some day we may discover victims of low-dose radiation, just as we one day discovered the existence of black swans – lots of them (in Australia). We […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Radiation

Dr. Kiyohiko Sakamoto – Low Dose Radiation Used as Cancer Treatment

July 9, 2012 By Rod Adams

Dr. Kiyohiko Sakamoto was one of the presenters at the American Nuclear Society 2012 Annual Meeting President’s Special Session on Low Level Radiation and Its Implications For Fukushima Recovery. The session organizers thought that his work on using whole body and half body radiation treatments to cure cancer and prevent recurrence was important enough to […]

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

Low-level Radiation and Its Implications for Fukushima Recovery

June 28, 2012 By Rod Adams

If a special session occurs and the press ignores it, did it really happen? Ted Rockwell, one of my favorite nuclear pioneers, was unable to attend the American Nuclear Society annual meeting despite having worked diligently to help organize a President’s Special Session titled “Low-Level Radiation and Its Implications for Fukushima Recovery.” He eagerly looked […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, LNT, Nuclear Communications, Radiation

Has Apocalyptic Portrayal of Climate Change Risk Backfired?

May 2, 2012 By Rod Adams

During the Australian Broadcasting Company documentary titled I Can Change Your Mind About … Climate there is a scene where Anthony Leiserowitz (via Skype video) shares some of what he has learned during his research about climate change attitudes with Nick Minchin and Anna Rose, the show’s protagonists. Here is how the producers of “I […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Atomic Advocacy, LNT

Does radiation really cause cancer? Conversation among professionals

January 18, 2012 By Rod Adams

One of the privileges of being a long time pronuclear activist on the Internet – an activity that I have been enjoying since “atomicrod” started posting in USENET discussion groups in the early 1990s – is that I often see communications between talented, highly qualified professionals that include information that is not well distributed in […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear medicine

Radiation Doses – As Low As UnReasonably Achievable (ALAURA)

December 22, 2011 By Rod Adams

A friend tweeted a link to a terrific satire titled Roentgen Shrugged that was published in the March 2011 issue of Health Physics News. The piece describes what might happen to modern medical care in the foreseeable future if the radiation protection guild keeps ratcheting down allowable radiation dose exposure levels to an ever more […]

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

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab announces breakthrough study of low dose radiation effects

December 21, 2011 By Rod Adams

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued a press release on December 20, 2011 titled New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation: Berkeley Lab Researchers Find Evidence Suggesting Risk May Not Be Proportional to Dose at Low Dose Levels. The press release summarizes the results of a paper that has been published in the Proceedings […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT

Fission advocates should cooperate to dispel misinformation about radiation health effects

December 20, 2011 By Rod Adams

I correspond regularly with advocates for various nuclear fission technologies; there are many disagreements about the best way forward. The advocates can get pretty passionate about what they believe to be the weaknesses of competing technologies. There are times when I need to step in to remind them that their competitive target should be the […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

What are radiation protection standards protecting us from?

November 18, 2011 By Guest Author

By Ted Rockwell How are Permissible Radiation Limits Set? How Much is Science, How Much “Prudence”? U.S. Regulatory Report NCRP-136 examined the question of establishing permissible radiation limits. After looking at the data, it concluded that most people who get a small dose of nuclear radiation are not harmed by it, and in fact are […]

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

Spirited debate about BEIR VII and Linear No Threshold (LNT) Dose Assumption

October 29, 2011 By Rod Adams

A few days ago, I wrote What should “Radioactive Wolves” teach critical thinkers? and promptly got really busy at work. I put in several “half-days” (Navy lingo for a 12 hour work day) and did not have much time for paying attention to Atomic Insights. When I finally got around to checking on things, there […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT

Risk below 100 mSv is so low you cannot measure it

October 15, 2011 By Rod Adams

One of my favorite jokes about the difference between scientists and engineers is the one in which a scientist and an engineer are both put into a room with a pot of gold on the other side. They are given the rules of the challenge – the gold will be given to the person who […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear Communications

“Radiation is not a big threat to mankind” – Dr. Wade Allison addressing ACCJ

October 15, 2011 By Rod Adams

Dr. Wade Allison, the author of Radiation and Reason addressed the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) Food Safety meeting on October 3, 2011. Unlike Arnie Gundersen (sometimes misspelled as Gunderson), an unlicensed nuclear engineer from Vermont who has been working hard for several months to encourage an unreasonable fear of radiation, even at […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Health Effects, LNT

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