Excellent job! A stupendous summary of radiation science. Now if we could get Trump's energy team to read it and install commissioners in the NRC who are pro-science and are Humanists, not corrupt Malthusians. And tell them to obey orders or be fired.
Better yet, abolish the NRC. There is a doctrine called Subsidiarity that has proven highly effective in running large organizations. Administer any policy at the lowest level that is practical. Don't use a Federal agency when a State agency can do the job. Don't use a State agency when a municipal agency can do that job.
We are seeing with the DOGE & Trump admin revelations that the Centralization policy of the Federal gov't has been a dismal failure, inundated with corruption, incompetence, apathy and fraud. Kakistocracy or Idiocracy. It is a virtual certainty that the NRC is riddled with similar waste, abuse, extravagance, obsolescence, incompetence, intransigence and corruption as we are seeing in other Federal agencies. If only DOGE would turn its guns on the NRC.
At least if nuclear & radiation safety was administered at the State level, there would be a competition amongst State agencies. Any that operate like the NRC does, would stick out like a sore thumb, maximum cost for minimum benefit. And those states would be forced to import clean, low cost nuclear power from states with a rational regulator. Or maybe high priced electricity when their wind & solar craps out and pushes market prices sky high. A gravy train for pro-nuclear states.
Hopefully Ken Paxton wins Texas' lawsuit against the NRC for illegally regulating nuclear installations that are not big PWRs.
I agree with everything you said, why not to mention hormesis? As you know this fight - anti LNT pro hormesis - is in full swing in the Health Physics Society. Where do you stand on that?
Hormesis is definitely a true effect. There are lots of examples, but no coherent model that projects the effects of dose rate. I think the dose rates from nuclear power accidents would be too low to trigger a hormesis benefit, but the Taiwan apartments Co-60 contamination suggest maybe so? We don't need to rely on hormesis to demonstrate that radiation damage under 20 mSv/day is repaired so there is no observable harm.
Excellent job! A stupendous summary of radiation science. Now if we could get Trump's energy team to read it and install commissioners in the NRC who are pro-science and are Humanists, not corrupt Malthusians. And tell them to obey orders or be fired.
Better yet, abolish the NRC. There is a doctrine called Subsidiarity that has proven highly effective in running large organizations. Administer any policy at the lowest level that is practical. Don't use a Federal agency when a State agency can do the job. Don't use a State agency when a municipal agency can do that job.
We are seeing with the DOGE & Trump admin revelations that the Centralization policy of the Federal gov't has been a dismal failure, inundated with corruption, incompetence, apathy and fraud. Kakistocracy or Idiocracy. It is a virtual certainty that the NRC is riddled with similar waste, abuse, extravagance, obsolescence, incompetence, intransigence and corruption as we are seeing in other Federal agencies. If only DOGE would turn its guns on the NRC.
At least if nuclear & radiation safety was administered at the State level, there would be a competition amongst State agencies. Any that operate like the NRC does, would stick out like a sore thumb, maximum cost for minimum benefit. And those states would be forced to import clean, low cost nuclear power from states with a rational regulator. Or maybe high priced electricity when their wind & solar craps out and pushes market prices sky high. A gravy train for pro-nuclear states.
Hopefully Ken Paxton wins Texas' lawsuit against the NRC for illegally regulating nuclear installations that are not big PWRs.
Well now there's this missive from the Whitehouse: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/zero-based-regulatory-budgeting-to-unleash-american-energy/
Excellent and definitive article!
I agree with everything you said, why not to mention hormesis? As you know this fight - anti LNT pro hormesis - is in full swing in the Health Physics Society. Where do you stand on that?
Hormesis is definitely a true effect. There are lots of examples, but no coherent model that projects the effects of dose rate. I think the dose rates from nuclear power accidents would be too low to trigger a hormesis benefit, but the Taiwan apartments Co-60 contamination suggest maybe so? We don't need to rely on hormesis to demonstrate that radiation damage under 20 mSv/day is repaired so there is no observable harm.