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Fungi have an amazing ability to concentrate cesium, including radioactive cesium-137 from atom bomb testing and nuclear power plant releases. Wild boar love to eat mushrooms and truffles. As a result, eastern European boar can have far higher than normal Cs-137 levels. How dangerous are these levels? Can we eat these animals?

The Linear No Threshold model of radiation harm, which is the basis for current nuclear power regulation, cannot replicate both the harm we see when a large dose is received over a very short period, and the lack of detectable harm when the same or larger doses are acquired over far longer periods. Therefore, it must be replaced. This paper suggests a Sigmoid No Threshold model as the replacement, and applies that model to both the Fukushima and Chernobyl releases.

Another sad tale which shows just how screwed up the whole system is. Read and weep.

The probability of the next large release is 1.00. The only question is when. We must ensure that that release is tolerable without any evacuation. This paper argues that a 2 kilometer buffer zone will do the job for a 1 GW reactor.

Through 1950, the ICRP recommended radiation limit for the public was 2 mSv/d. It was a good rule and still is a good rule. This piece makes the case for going back to daily limits and argues that 2 mSv/d would be a more than adequately conservative limit.

Arjun Makhijani has recently published a book called Exploring Tritium Dangers. The book suggests tritium is far more dangerous than the nuclear establishment claims. In fact, tritium is far more innocuous than the nuclear establishment implies. Here’s the Gordian Knot Group review.

The nuclear power establishment has fed us two lies. This paper argues that for nuclear electricity to be successful, both these lies must be renounced.

The history of Yankee Rowe encapsulates the promise and tragedy of US nuclear power.

After the nuclear establishment had priced US nuclear out of business, it turned to fleecing the taxpayer for clean up, interminable spent fuel studies, etc. It’s crowning achievement is the Hanford ripoff https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/you-want-nuclear-waste-ill-show-you There was one member of the establishment who saw what was going down and had the guts to try and do something about it. His  credentials were impeccable. He was Rickover’s right hand man, Ted Rockwell. Not only was Rockwell a world class engineer, he could write. This is one of his pieces. Rockwell has been pretty much ignored. The planet’s poor and the planet itself will

After the nuclear establishment had priced US nuclear out of business, it turned to fleecing the taxpayer for clean up, interminable spent fuel studies, etc. It’s crowning achievement is the Hanford ripoff https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/you-want-nuclear-waste-ill-show-you There was one member of the establishment who saw what was going down and had the guts to try and do something about it. His  credentials were impeccable. He was Rickover’s right hand man, Ted Rockwell. Not only was Rockwell a world class engineer, he could write. This is one of his pieces. Rockwell has been pretty much ignored. The planet’s poor and the planet itself will