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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Nuclear Whistleblower Gives Talk

His name is Dale Bridenbaugh and he worked on GE Mark I reactors.  It's been obviously edited, not sure why.  He seems honest and sincere but at about 16:00, Dan Hirsch comes on to point out that the Japanese wanted to relax their dose limits about 100-fold to 2 rem/year.  



The IAEA/WHO recommend that evacuations can be terminated at less than 1 rem/month, so the Japanese limit is actually conservative.  Hirsch says that at that limit it could lead to 1 in 100 excess cancer cases.  That's not a good thing, but the Japanese already have a 30 in 100 chance of cancer, so the increase is trivial.

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