EPA Proposing Radiation Exposure Limits (Yucca Mountain)

[struggle4progress]

Tuesday August 9, 2005 11:01 PM


By H. JOSEF HEBERT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Conceding there's no way to know what life will be like in a million years, the Environmental Protection Agency nevertheless proposed limits Tuesday on how much radiation a person should be exposed to from a nuclear waste dump in that distant time.

The proposal would limit exposure near the proposed Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada to 15 millirems a year for 10,000 years into the future, but then increase the allowable level to 350 millirems for up to 1 million years.

That higher level is more than three times what is allowed from nuclear facilities today by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

A standard chest X-ray is about 10 millirems. <snip>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5200842,00.html

[Mr. Peanut]

1. No surprise...

the inmates are running the prison.

[struggle4progress]

2. This would be an improvement over the 10K year standard (or less)

that the industry has pushed for the last decade ...

[Mr. Peanut]

3. Under Bush...

industry now "writes" the regulations of the EPA and other agencies. So, where's the catch?

[struggle4progress]

4. This is lawsuit driven:

"A year ago a federal court said the EPA standard ... was inadequate because it didn't establish exposure limits beyond 10,000 years." http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5200842,00.html

Of course the flying monkeys weren't pushing for this one ...

[TankLV]

5. No surprise to Nevada residents. If you can't meet YOUR OWN STANDARDS,

then change the rules/standards and - viola! - you now meet the "standards".

Or just blatently lie - which is also what they've done.

Typical repuke bullshit. More "faith based" "science".

How I wish a Democrat were in control.