Govenrments around the world are finding ways to raise pemissable leves of radiation for exposure of the public beyond what is considered safe

This post links to Peers - public employees for environmental responsibility.

Amarican group PEERs are all over the issue of raising permissable limits of public exposure to radiation in the wake of the Fukushima multiple reactor & fuel pool disaster.


This move would mean routinely exposing the public to usafe levels of contamination in their food water & air.


However this is not new news. Those who watched the events in Chernobyl and were closely involved in attempts to protect the health of the Chernobyl victims, have been aware of these measures for at least the last 25 years.


Because the cost of evacuation and relocation is so high, the ICRP made a move after Chernobyl in its publication 60 ensured that the concept of ALARA (As Low As is Reasonably Achievable) is dropped after any nuclear incident.


This is a callous move that revicitmises the orginal victims of a nuclear disaster, by 

• shifting the burden of proof from the perpetrator to the victim
• by preventing evacuation of at risk populations
• by increasing the levels of dangerous radioactivity a population can legally be exposed to
• forcing evacuated populations to return to land that is still highly contaminated
• ensuring that dangerous radioactivity accumulates up through the food chain
•  ensuring associated teratogenic, mutagenic & carcinogenic effects are unfairly experienced by societies most vulnerable - children & pregnant women.