Radiation Harm from EO

This week, Libbe HaLevy of Nuclear Hotseat interviews Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Cindy breaks down what’s wrong with recent nuclear Executive Order (EO) 14300, which asks NRC to recognize a safe radiation dose, and gives NRC a mandate to “enable” the building of new, untried Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.

Current scientific evidence shows there is no safe dose of radiation; does not fully account for females, children, pregnancy or non-cancer diseases; and that the current radiation risk model underestimates cancer risk nearly half of the time. Even so, the current model for radiation risk, called the Linear No Threshold (LNT) model, while not perfect, is much better than where we seem to be heading.