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Comments from more than 100 organizations to National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) “opposing their immoral report” which would greatly increase allowable radiation exposure standards in the aftermath of a nuclear accident or attack.
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NIRS comments to NCRP emphasizing the increased risk radiation poses to females and the essential role female health has for the population.
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NIRS, Committee to Bridge the Gap, California Federation of Scientists and Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility provided more detailed comments to NCRP criticizing the conflicts of interest by the NCRP report authors and unjustified shifting of focus of the report from cleanup after a radioactive terrorist attack to allowing extremely high levels of radiation in more common radioactive release scenarios. Charts are provided showing allowable increases in radioactive contamination up to MILLIONS of times higher than currently permitted.
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EPA dramatically weakening radiation protection. News release from NIRS & Committee to Bridge the Gap.
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EPA has just issued new Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for dealing with radioactive releases. The new PAGs are much worse than the extremely weak PAGs Bush tried to push out in the last days of that Administration which Obama pulled back. Although EPA is taking comments on these PAGs for 90 days, they are effective immediately.
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GAO report agrees with NIRS, finds that NRC does not understand and regulations do not account for likelihood of large shadow evacuations in real accident situation. NIRS press release on report and comment on big issue GAO missed.
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NIRS and Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa are joining forces to stop the international threat to radioactive contamination of the world’s recycled metal supply. In the U.S., DOE threatens to release metal from radioactive areas of the atomic bomb complex and in South Africa the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) is poised to license three radioactive metal smelters, clearly indicating the intent to import radioactive metal from other countries and raising concerns about violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and Pelindaba Treaty.
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