U.S. regulators may radically revise safety assumptions about atomic radiation.
By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.
Dec. 1, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET
Wade
Allison, emeritus professor of physics at Oxford, has a more realistic
idea for fighting global warming than any being promoted at this week’s
climate summit in Paris: Increase by 1,000-fold the allowable limits for
radiation exposure to the public and workers from nuclear power plants.
Politicians
in Paris might notice their host country ranks 20th in per capita
income but 50th in greenhouse emissions. You know why: France gets 75%
of its electricity from nuclear. France has waded forward even while,
for reasons having to do with horror of nuclear war and atmospheric
testing, the world has surrendered since the 1950s to an unfounded dogma
that radiation exposure is always dangerous in direct proportion to
dose.http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-nuclear-paradigm-shift-1449014295
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