Showing posts with label linear no-threshold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linear no-threshold. Show all posts
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Radiation Myths Harming Public Health

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Radiation Myths Harming Public Health by Jay Lehr, February 24, 2010 I was recently invited to lunch by the editors of Newsweek magazine i...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

The "Linear Mafia's" Last Hurrah?

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On June 29, 2005, a politicized committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences issued a well-publicized report that is in total dis...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Yes, You Can Be Too Careful (Part 2)

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Bernard Cohen reports, in his book The Nuclear Energy Option , [Plenum Press, New York, 1990] that $100,000 in medical treatments or highway...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Yes, You Can Be Too Careful

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Hundreds of billions of dollars are to be spent 'remediating' U.S. sites even though there is no scientific basis for claiming any h...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Five Million Miles on a Pound of Plutonium?

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In the early 1950s, when I was an almost-teenager reading all the popular magazines on science and mathematics I could read at the drugstore...
Friday, April 1, 2016

SECURE and the IFR

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Other low-temperature reactors - used for warming entire communities - are not new to the world... just to U.S. citizens with our abysmal la...
Friday, March 25, 2016

What's Cookin' in Those Reactors

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The use of thorium in CANDU type reactors would give earthlings sufficient energy to provide for the next seven ice ages. - Edward Teller [F...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Keeping Abreast of the Evidence

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Breast cancer is a pretty depressing matter. An estimated 44,300 women (and several thousand men) will die of breast cancer this year. It is...
Friday, March 4, 2016

"Why Don't They Evacuate Norway?"

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"Why don't they evacuate Norway?" - a question by UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) Member ...
Monday, January 11, 2016

A Slippery Slope

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When we read the statistics on deaths involving automobile accidents, we are given the actual count of deaths as compiled by various law enf...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Time Out for a Measurement

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Why, in a book about hormesis  are we branching off into areas of Linear No-Threshold   theory  and collective dose ? Because the LNT and co...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Falling for the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Theory

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Sadly, and ironically, the change in our attitudes toward radiation is due to an assumption - an assumption originally made to protect us fr...