be the most lax standards for a repository in the world. |
DOE must expeditiously review records to determine which groups of workers who labored to make and test this country's huge nuclear arsenal were put at risk, |
I'm really shocked the EPA has proposed this, ... It's not a standard to protect public health. It's a standard to protect the industry's interest in Yucca Mountain. |
In the proposed EPA rule, every norm of radiation protection that has been established for the general public since the late 1950s ... is to be thrown overboard, |
In the proposed EPA rule, every norm of radiation protection that has been established for the general public since the late 1950s ... is to be thrown overboard. |
Inhaling uranium or plutonium is very dangerous and these kinds of radiation only hurt you when they're inside the body; they don't hurt you when they're outside. |
It's not like people are going to start dropping like flies from this level of radiation. |
This is appalling that the National Cancer Institute did not make this available as soon as possible. It's been too long sitting on this. |
This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry, |
This rule is a transparent attempt to accommodate the industry. |
What is surprising and very new is that it has created intense hot spots in the continental United States all the way from California and Washington to Vermont, New Hampshire and North Carolina, |