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This rule is a transparent attempt to accommodate the industry.
Arjun Makhijani -
Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be intolerable because you have to build an immense number of nuclear power plants, one large plant a week around the world for the next 40 years, to make a significant dent in the global warming problem.
Arjun Makhijani
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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.
Arjun Makhijani -
This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry.
Arjun Makhijani -
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.
Arjun Makhijani -
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.
Arjun Makhijani -
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.
Arjun Makhijani -
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.
Arjun Makhijani