Comments on Nuke Pro: The Government Reporting "Quality" on Radiation Testing is Horrifically Deficient, Even High Schools Kids Are Outperforming

http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2014/03/24/al...

2015-08-27T11:53:02.728-07:00

http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2014/03/24/alberta-students-science-project-finds-high-radiation-levels-in-grocery-store-seafood.html
https://www.radcast.org/brownwyn-delacruz/

Quote: "Conclusion: Radioactively contaminated food is entering Canada and being sold undetected. Urgent attention is needed by the CFIA for further study. But with no additional testing planned by the CFIA at this time, it is up to individual citizens to remain vigi-lant. The data compels us to screen our food independently, spearhead the development of an international collaborative effort of data acquisition and sharing through an open source database, petition the government to restart the CFIA’s enhanced testing program as well as to petition our government to assist Japan in their containment efforts before it is too late."
[note: bold/italic emphasis, mine]

Tracking Number: 1jz-8kr9-brsg Two analogous situ...

2015-08-25T14:27:51.840-07:00

Tracking Number: 1jz-8kr9-brsg

Two analogous situations to show how ☢ Science is being "gamed" by our Government/NRC:

A. Imagine that our Government told us that their studies have shown that more sex is good for everyone because "it causes us no harm" and therefore we no longer have the personal freedom to decide:

1) How much sex we want

2) Who we can have sex with

3) What forms of sex we must accept

4) When we must start having sex

B. Everyone knows that a little sunlight (aka Solar radiation) is good for you but too much can cause many health problems including premature aging of the skin and different types of cancer. If the Government increased the amount of sunshine they said was acceptable, it could have negative health affects on many people, and especially those with fair skin.

With the Government and/or the NRC deciding that they can raise the "acceptable" radiation limits in our food, the air we breathe and everything else, they are treating us no differently than the laboratory test animals whose lives are controlled by the nuclear Industry.

The ☢ rule of thumb for everyone should be to accept no additional radiation unless you personally need it for some specific purpose, like an X-ray.

The idea that all of US should accept additional radiation dosage because it allows Big Nuclear to make Big Money is unacceptable!

Increasing allowable safety limits is nothing but a "gift" to the nuclear industry that allows them to increase the level of radioactivity over that that which is naturally occurring. Any addition ☢ (aka"pollution") that is man-made (coming from a reactor, weapons, manufacturing or nuclear waste storage) is not naturally occurring and should not be tolerated.

Changing the legal definition of the word man-made "pollution" does not make it "acceptable", it just highlights that our Government is now threatening the quality of our health to benefit the Nuclear Industry!

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Two analogous situations to show how Science is being "gamed" by our Government:

A. Imagine that our Government told us that their studies have shown that more sex is good for everyone because "it causes us no harm" and therefore we no longer have the personal freedom to decide:

1) How much sex we want

2) Who we can have sex with

3) What forms of sex we must accept

4) When we must start having sex

B. Everyone knows that a little sunlight (aka Solar radiation) is good for you but too much can cause health many problems problems including premature aging and cancer. If the Government increased the amount of sunshine they said was acceptable, it could have negative health affects on many people, and especially those with fair skin.

With the Government deciding that they can raise the "acceptable" radiation limits in our food, the air we breathe and everything else, they are treating us no differently than the laboratory test animals whose lives are controlled by the nuclear Industry.

The ☢ rule of thumb should be to accept no additional radiation unless you personally need it for some specific purpose, like an X-ray.

The idea that all of US should accept additional radiation dosage because it allows Big Nuclear to make Big Money is unacceptable!

Increasing allowable safety limits is nothing but a "gift" to the nuclear industry that allows them to increase the level of radioactivity over that that which is naturally occurring. Any addition ☢ (aka"pollution") that is man-made (coming from a reactor, weapons, manufacturing or nuclear waste storage) is not naturally occurring and should not be tolerated.

Changing the legal definition of the word does not make man-made "pollution" "acceptable", it just highlights that our Government is gaming the quality of our health to benefit the Nuclear Industry!

have you commented to the NRC

2015-08-25T09:36:33.385-07:00

have you commented to the NRC

Two analogous situations to show how Science is be...

2015-08-25T09:16:59.065-07:00

Two analogous situations to show how Science is being "gamed" by our Government:

A. Imagine that our Government told us that their studies have shown that more sex is good for everyone because "it causes us no harm" and therefore we no longer have the personal freedom to decide:

1) How much sex we want

2) Who we can have sex with

3) What forms of sex we must accept

4) When we must start having sex

B. Everyone knows that a little sunlight (aka Solar radiation) is good for you but too much can cause health many problems problems including premature aging and cancer. If the Government increased the amount of sunshine they said was acceptable, it could have negative health affects on many people, and especially those with fair skin.

With the Government deciding that they can raise the "acceptable" radiation limits in our food, the air we breathe and everything else, they are treating us no differently than the laboratory test animals whose lives are controlled by the nuclear Industry.

The ☢ rule of thumb should be to accept no additional radiation unless you personally need it for some specific purpose, like an X-ray.

The idea that all of US should accept additional radiation dosage because it allows Big Nuclear to make Big Money is unacceptable!

Increasing allowable safety limits is nothing but a "gift" to the nuclear industry that allows them to increase the level of radioactivity over that that which is naturally occurring. Any addition ☢ (aka"pollution") that is man-made (coming from a reactor, weapons, manufacturing or nuclear waste storage) is not naturally occurring and should not be tolerated.

Changing the legal definition of the word does not make man-made "pollution" "acceptable", it just highlights that our Government is gaming the quality of our health to benefit the Nuclear Industry!

Agreed that the LNT model is too easy to take pot ...

2015-08-25T08:30:11.367-07:00

Agreed that the LNT model is too easy to take pot shots at.

My take is that chronic low doses are worse than a one time large dose like a CT, especially internal contamination chronic low dose that keeps attacking the same area of the body.

But just because LNT is easy to pot shot, does NOT MEAN that we should reduce safety standards, or god forbid, go full tilt 'tard subscribe to a hormesis THEORY. stock out

" Careful here, there are background levels o...

2015-08-25T04:30:53.778-07:00

" Careful here, there are background levels of all isotopes in the environment. "

Suggesting that all radiation is created equally. Man-made v. "natural" ....

No one doubts there are non-zero levels of radioac...

2015-08-24T18:47:16.600-07:00

No one doubts there are non-zero levels of radioactivity. The question is how far from zero does radioactivity have to be to be a risk? Careful here, there are background levels of all isotopes in the environment.

No one that claims "no safe dose" has ever tested that theory by incrementally departing from zero at a deminimus delta dose - say one atom. Modern radiation detectors only produce a signal from an average and a threshold. Below a threshold value for detection, the instrument doesnt register any counts. Yet radioactive processes are present at the most minutest non-zero level.