Seems “scientists” don’t actually believe in science.
We have eight decades of experience with radiation workers now. That is more than a sufficient sample size. If LNT was true, they should easily be able to prove it through epidemiological studies. ‘They’ have not.
BTW....highest lifetime occupational radiation exposure belongs to...
Airline pilots.
I always thought that the biggest long term problem with nuclear power was how to store/handle/protect the spent radioactive fuel.
Thanks for posting!!
I’m an HPS member….
“However, it’s been stifled for decades based on one deeply flawed scientific model: the linear no-threshold (LNT) model. “
Having worked at over 15 nuclear plants including 10 new startups that has never been stifling.
Anti-nuke people often like to claim that storage of nuclear waste is the reason for not building more nuclear plants.
The nuclear industry in the U.S. produces about 4000 tons of waste per year. That may seem like a lot but, consider that we produce about 275 MILLION tons of non-nuclear, bio and chemical hazardous waste. That is about 70,000 times more than nuclear waste. But do we shut down the bio and chemical industries for that?
Also, people worry about the long lifetimes of some of the nuclear waste. But the lifetime is the inverse of the decay rate. Materials with long lifetimes are not very radioactive, and materials that are very radioactive, have very short lifetimes. Meanwhile, bio and chemical hazardous waste can be hazardous for ever.