ICRP safety limit is 1mSv/y in normal situation while it is 20mSv/y – 100mSv/y
in emergency situation. Applying this
ICRP limit, 1mSv/y is the safety limit under the law in Japan. They supposed that we live up to 100 years old,
then if we are exposed to the radiation 1mSv/y, our life time exposure to the
radiation will be 100mSv all together.
However, this 100mSv theory was questioned by NHK TV reporters
that broadcast at the end of last year in Japan. In it, Mr. Charles
Minehold who is a retired scientist and was used to be an ICRP member
revealed that it was
originally at 50mSv was the safe level for low - dose exposure according
to ABCC report, but it was
agreed in a meeting to double the limit, without any scientific evidence, for the convenience
of the nuclear power business. If they
had reduced the safety level, they would have had to pay a lot more compensation
to lot of people including nuclear workers. In fact they decided the
safety limit for nuclear workers 20 times more. Nuclear workers'
safety limit is normally 20mSv/y in Japan. However it was raised 250mSv for Fukushima nuclear workers after the accident.
ABCC,
which is notorious for having carrying out tests on victims of
Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs at the time without offering them any treatment,
concealed its finding on the effects on low-level radiation until
recently. Moreover, according to
Professor Busby, the damaged caused to DNA by radiation had not been discovered
when the ICRP safety standard was set up.
I hope more and more data and information about the dangers of internal exposure to radiation and low dose exposure come to light, so that the nuclear industry, ICRP, UN, WHO and IAEA will be forced to reconsider their safety standard. In fact if they did, they would have to realize that nuclear power is the most dangerous source of energy that we should have never use it.
The 15-Country Collaborative Study of Cancer Risk Among Radiation Workers in the Nuclear Industry: design, epidemiological methods and descriptive results.
The study included nearly
600,000 workers employed in 154 facilities in 15 countries.
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