“Radiation is Good for You!” and Other Tall Tales of the Nuclear Industry
“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the ‘Linear No-Threshold’ (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theory—which holds that low doses of radioactivity are good for people.” says Karl Grossman, Beyond Nuclear board member and contributor to Counterpunch
Beyond Nuclear further recognizes that current NRC regulations do not protect childhood, women or their pregnancies. It is intolerable that they would expose people to more radiation claiming a beneficial effect, particularly when science overwhelmingly shows just the opposite. European studies around nuclear facilities show evidence of increased childhood cancer. PLEASE SIGN Beyond Nuclear’s petition demanding that NRC reject hormesis as a model for radiation protection.
Despite (or because of?) of these studies showing increased risks for children, and in addition to NRC’s consideration of hormesis, NRC has decided to cancel a vital cancer study around nuclear facilities in the U.S. It is clear that there is a major push at the Federal Government level to downplay the impact of radiation exposure to members of the public; particularly an attempt to hide the unique vulnerabilities of pregnancy and childhood. Beyond Nuclear will continue to fight to halt this nuclear industry onslaught.
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Harvey Wasserman just hosted Karl Grossman on the "Solartopia" radio program on PRN. Grossman spoke on the lethal dangers of nuclear power, how it must be eliminated, and about the safe, clean, renewable energy technologies we can live with here now, being implemented, and more than ready to be more widely implemented. Focused on, too, was NRC's current consideration of adopting the big lie “hormesis theory," that radioactivity is good for people.
