“Radiation is Good for You!” and Other Tall Tales of the Nuclear Industry

By Karl Grossman | CounterPunch | September 8, 2015 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the “Linear No-Threshold” (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theory—which holds that low doses of radioactivity are good for people. The change […]