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.
Update
-
-
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.
Link
-
, 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.
Update
-
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.
Update
-
70+ organizations tell EPA to make radiation standards comparable to standards for other pollutants (radiation standards currently are far less protective); slam EPA proposal to weaken them even further. Press release. Letter to EPA.
Update
-
-
-
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.
Update
-
NIRS comments to NCRP emphasizing the increased risk radiation poses to females and the essential role female health has for the population.
Update
-
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.
Update