The current standard in The United States for how much a human can safely be exposed to radiation is based on the linear no threshold (LNT) model. Derived nearly a century ago from the study of fruit flies concluded that even low dose exposure over time would increase cancer risk. The LNT model has informed our Environmental Protection Agency, which has been setting extreme limits on how much low dose radiation humans may be exposed to. Follow up research has since called into question this absolute standard for low levels of radiation exposure with some going so far as to call it “baloney” and “junk science.”
Now, the Trump EPA is reconsidering strict standards to allow more employers to avoid costly measures to protect against radiation at even the smallest ranges. More
if you are serious about radiation exposure you would not be sitting in front of your freakin’ tv, night after night after night
… or your computer …. besides, all your (& my) other vices are going to kill you much sooner than nuked chimichangas from the local 7-11
Having been in the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program (anyone in the know will know what an ELT is), I have first hand experience with this.
Boy oh boy are the limits strict, and for good reason most of the time.
We were shocked when one of our former sailors went to work for a civilian nuc plant and told us that their limits were just over TWICE what ours were (those in the know will know 450 vs 1000).
Having the EPA review the levels and updating them with current data is good science, won’t get anyone killed (who wasn’t going to get kill’t anyway), and will actually save MILLIONS (if not BILLIONS) of dollars.
Let the liberal heads explode in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Does not bother me at all as much as Hillary Clinton pocketing 10’s of millions of taxpayers dollars for Uranium she had no ownership in.
Fake news. The AP issued a correction on this story. The proposed change to EPA guidelines has nothing to do with radiation.
https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
When I was a young child, I remember shoe departments in some stores would actually have an x-ray device (fluoroscope) that you could put your child’s feet into in order to see if the shoes were fitting properly. It was supposed to only be used under adult supervision, but since it was usually unattended, we kids would sneak over and look at the bones in our feet every chance we got, which seemed really cool at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
I often wonder if that had anything to do with the lymphoma I developed in later life. I figure it was either that or the insecticide fog from the mosquito sprayer trucks that we kids used to play in whenever they came around in the summer.
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The state of Maryland once proposed a law which, if enacted, would have prevented the return of any human who had exited the state from returning because the levels of radioactivity inherent in the human body would have been higher than the radiation level allowed to enter the state.
Check out the levels of cinder blocks, for instance, or Fiesta Ware.
Ignorance may be bliss, but ignorance combined with fear is toxic.
The EPA shouldn’t even exist, much less override the Legislative Branch.
izlamo delenda est …
The cell phone lobby must have gotten to them.
Can he get rid of the scam called Radon?
There’s been basements for centuries…