EPA is the agency responsible for protecting the public from ionizing radiation under the 1970 law that created the agency.
NIRS comments on three petitions for rulemaking advocating that the NRC adopt a hormesis finding for radiation exposure–i.e. that radiation exposure can be good for you. The hormesis concept has been thoroughly discredited over the years and is not accepted by any international regulatory authority. NIRS (and many others) urge speedy and complete denial of these petitions.
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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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, 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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