Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

NRC PROPOSED LAWS MAKE HELLA RADIATION EVERYWHERE OK BECAUSE ITS "GOOD FOR US" | comment deadline Sept. 8!!


"No Excuses, No Nukes" by T. Arata


PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD: INTELLIGENT COMMENTS ARE NEEDED AND SOON -- DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 8






The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received three petitions for rulemaking (PRM) requesting that the NRC amend its “Standards for Protection Against Radiation” regulations and change the basis of those regulations from the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model of radiation protection to the radiation hormesis model. The radiation hormesis model provides that exposure of the human body to low levels of ionizing radiation is beneficial and protects the human body against deleterious effects of high levels of radiation. Whereas, the LNT model provides that radiation is always considered harmful, there is no safety threshold, and biological damage caused by ionizing radiation (essentially the cancer risk) is directly proportional to the amount of radiation exposure to the human body (response linearity).... The NRC is requesting public comments on these petitions for rulemaking...

of particular note:

..Public doses should be raised to worker doses. The petitioner notes that “these low doses may be hormetic. The petitioner goes on to ask, “why deprive the public of the benefits of low dose radiation?”...
and
...End differential doses to pregnant women, embryos and fetuses, and children under 18 years of age...

COMMENTS CLOSE IN 2 DAYS.

(Sorry I didn't post sooner).


more links:



Here's the link to "Linear No-Threshold Model and Standards for Protection Against RadiationDocket Folder Summary"' at regulations.gov, which at present has 31 comments listed and has had the supporting documents withdrawn "at the request of the NRC" (i poked around in the html source to find out there were 12 of them):





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