NIRS, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Food and Water Watch Press Release Opposing EPA Proposal to Adopt WATER PAGs Protective Action Guides allowing thousand fold increases in radioactivity in drinking water.
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Gender and Radiation talk by Mary Olson, Japan Speaking Tour 2016
Hiroshima / Fukushima: Gender Matters in the Atomic Age
Notes on: Hiroshima/Fukushima: Gender Matters in the Atomic Age
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NIRS and several national and regional organizations and state government representatives met with the Office of Management and Budget to request their rejection of EPA’s proposal to adopt Protective Action Guidelines (PAGs) for Water which would increase allowable radioactivity in water tens, hundreds, or more times the Safe Drinking Water.
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, EPA submitted to the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed Protection Action Guidance(PAGs) on radioactivity in water after a nuclear incident, not just big dirty bomb attacks or Fukushima/Chernobyl type accidents, but even smaller events like radiopharmaceutical transport spills. NIRS and organizations across the country oppose weakening the water protections—specifically in the phase after the immediate response—that is for the intermediate cleanup phase that could last years—EPA’s proposal had been to increase allowable radioactivity in water tens, hundreds or more times the Safe Drinking Water levels (Maximum Concentration Levels MCLs). Groups requested a meeting with OMB.
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