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No rational reason to fear radiation – Dr. Wade Allison

June 3, 2014 By Rod Adams

Wade Allison on nuclear radiation from The Chemical Engineer on Vimeo. Professor Wade Allison, author of Radiation and Reason, explains to Helen Tunnicliffe, senior reporter for The Chemical Engineer (TCE), why radiation should be understood, not feared.

Filed Under: Health Effects, Pro Nuclear Video, Radiation

Why is Radiation Biology Funding Disappearing?

March 20, 2014 By Rod Adams

Atomic Insights has posted a number of articles about the health effects of low dose radiation that question the continuing use of the linear no-threshold dose response assumption. Those posts often attract passionate defenders of the status quo and occasionally stray into nastiness at the very idea of questioning the validity of regulatory standards based […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, hormesis, LNT, Radiation

Gold standard nuclear regulator – CNSC

March 13, 2014 By Rod Adams

If you want to know something about radiation and have a five minute time window, invest your available time by watching What is Radiation: Understanding Radiation With the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. In my opinion, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has lapped the competition. They are in a commanding lead as the true “gold standard” […]

Filed Under: isotopes, Radiation

Response to contamination: WIPP and New Mexico should practice communication skills

February 21, 2014 By Rod Adams

Recent events at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) provide an opportunity to reinforce the need to practice good communication skills in order to improve the future response to a contamination event. Though there is no public hazard associated with airborne contamination levels of 0.64 Bq of Am-241 and 0.046 Bq of Pu-239/240, the New […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Contamination, Health Effects, Nuclear Communications, Radiation

Airborne radiation at WIPP

February 20, 2014 By Rod Adams

Update: A reader pointed out that the headline is inaccurate. The issue at WIPP is airborne contamination (by radioactive material), not airborne radiation. In order to be gentle with search engines and existing links, the headline will remain as is. End Update. On Friday, February 14 at 11:30 pm, a continuous air monitoring alarm went […]

Filed Under: Contamination, isotopes, Radiation, WIPP

Don’t allow EPA to use “modernize” as euphemism for “tighten”

February 4, 2014 By Rod Adams

On February 3, 2014, The Hill Ballot Box blog published a call to action for nuclear energy and medical radiation therapy professionals titled EPA seeks to modernize nuclear standards. The EPA says it has not changed its radiation protection standards since the 1970s. Radiation health researchers would probably agree that there is a need to […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

CT Scans Save Lives

February 3, 2014 By Guest Author

By Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI) We are writing to express our concerns with a January 30, 2014 article by Rita F. Redberg and Rebecca Smith-Bindman. The article is alarmingly titled, “We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer”, and is accompanied by a frightening cartoon that appears to be a doctor holding an X-ray film, and […]

Filed Under: Guest Columns, Health Effects, Irradiation, LNT, Radiation

Useful online book – Radiation and Health

January 30, 2014 By Rod Adams

The health effects of low level radiation are a continuing topic of conversation here and in many other places around the web. The Establishment view is known as the Linear No Threshold (LNT) assumption. Using that model, which was first applied to radiation standards development in 1956, every dose is assumed to impart risk to […]

Filed Under: Contamination, Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

Muller influenced the BEAR to adopt the Linear No Threshold (LNT) assumption in 1956

January 28, 2014 By Rod Adams

Hermann Muller, the 1946 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine, insisted that there was no threshold of risk from ionizing radiation. His opinion has had a long lasting influence on standards for radiation dose. He was wrong. History is complicated. Influential people often impose their will with long-lasting results. The stories can be difficult […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

Realistic dose limits and better predictive models will help Fukushima recovery

January 27, 2014 By Rod Adams

World Nuclear News published an article titled Consistency required for Fukushima return that mentions several topics worth increased discussion. It mentions the report recently completed by the IAEA that complimented Japan on its efforts to decontaminate areas that were affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station radioactive material releases. Then it went on to […]

Filed Under: Contamination, Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information – Terrific reference site

January 22, 2014 By Rod Adams

There is a new group that you need to know about – Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information. Unlike another well known group that uses the word “scientists” in its title, the member list for this group includes a majority of people who actually have credentials and perform real, peer-reviewed research in the field in which […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, hormesis, LNT, Radiation

Radiation: The Facts

January 16, 2014 By Rod Adams

Opening eyes to the facts about radiation

I highly recommend a terrific brochure titled “Radiation: The Facts”. The document concentrates accurate information about radiation into a a tri-fold that can be read and understood in just a few minutes. It is a valuable presentation handout, would be a useful addition to the material offered in doctor’s offices, and should be a part […]

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

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