So if you have been concerned or scared of anything associated with radiation - from medical diagnostics to TSA screening to radon in your basement to nuclear power plants - you have been an unwitting victim of the LNT. As explained in this recent article, the LNT has been responsible for producing crippling fear of low-level radiation exposures.
Virtually all radiation safety standards - e.g, medical and dental treatment, occupational exposure standards, nuclear plant safety, radon in the home - are all based on the LNT. The International Commission on Radiological Protection, an independent non-government organization, is currently undertaking a review of its recommendations for radiation safety.
Through use of the LNT, all additional radiation risk is presumed to increased the risk of harm in linear fashion.
Although the LNT is often used for regulatory risk assessments for exposure to chemicals, the focus, here, will be radiation risk assessment.
The emails unearthed by Calabrese reveal senior levels of the radiation protection community, prominent individuals and key institutions, scheming not only to undermine Calabrese but also conspiring to seize control of the HPS and to cleanse it of anyone in a leadership role who questions the validity of the LNT. 3.
To provide the public and radiation protection community with the benefit of Calabrese's discoveries, the Health Physics Society released in April 2022 a series of videos documenting and exposing the historic science fraud behind the LNT that Calabrese single-handedly uncovered.
In the short term, if LNT is left out of the argument, and replaced with suggestions for sensible approaches to improve the ways to reduce financial and administrative burden based on acceptable risk using a graded approach within the current regulatory system, then there will be a clearer path forward toward more sensible regulation of ionizing radiation.
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