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• Nuclear Plant Workers Averaged the Lowest Radiation Dose Ever in a Year in 2007

  From the Nuclear Regulatory Commission : The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s compilation of 2007 nuclear power plant worker doses at U.S. reactors shows the average annual collective dose per plant is 97 person-rem, the lowest ever, and is two-thirds of the dose recorded 10 years ago. To determine a plant's collective dose, hundreds of workers’ individual doses are added up and the result is expressed... Posted Aug 20 2008, 09:50 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Radiation, workers

• Best Analogy for the Linear No-Threshold Theory

  Many NEI NN readers here know that there are two competing theories on radiation: linear no-threshold (LNT) and hormesis . For those who don't, the LNT theory basically says that there is no safe dose of radiation whereas the hormesis theory says small doses of radiation are safe and that there is a threshold before radiation becomes harmful. Both are highly debatable but the latter makes a stronger... Posted Jul 24 2008, 07:30 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Radiation, hormesis, linear no-threshold

• Web Site Siting: Radiation Answers

  One of the scarier things one can contemplate happening is being  irradiated, and anything so scary is going to be riven with taboo and fear-driven misinformation - popular culture, never shy to amping up fear, shows victims being baked from the inside, developing ghastly sores, rapidly sickening and dying. Dispelling fears surrounding nuclear energy has been an uphill but mostly successful battle... Posted May 21 2008, 10:07 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Radiation