US nuclear power regulator proposes changing rule protecting people from radiation

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. nuclear power regulator on Wednesday proposed changes to a rule ...

Nuclear regulators remove requirement to keep radiation 'as low as is reasonably achievable'

The Trump administration is proposing to roll back long-standing radiation safety requirements for nuclear power plants, ...

U.S. to Overhaul Radiation Safety Rules to Spur Nuclear Expansion

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to end longstanding guidance that radiation exposure be “as low as reasonably achievable.” ...
High Country News

New nuclear safety rules reduce protections for workers, the public

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes sit inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico in 2006. Credit: Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty ...
Mother Jones

As Nuclear Reactors Proliferate, Trump Is Scaling Back Rules That Protect Workers

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bradley P. Clawson spent more than three decades handling highly radioactive ...
Scientific American

Loosening radiation exposure rules won’t speed up nuclear energy production

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The Trump administration’s reckless attack on radiation protection will have long-term consequences for public safety

Worldwide, regulations limiting doses from the radiation emitted by nuclear fissions and decays are based on the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model. This hypothesis posits that, irrespective of whether ...