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The combination of the Price Anderson Act and the American tort system guarantees US nuclear power will not contribute to the country’s wealth and health nor to avoiding global warming in any meaningful manner. Unless this changes, American nuclear power is going nowhere.

Underwriter Certification, our proposed system for regulating nuclear power, requires a firm, automatic procedure for compensating people who have been harmed by a release of radioactive material. If humanity is to enjoy the benefits of nuclear power, it is essential that this system be reasonably realistic. It must be at least qualitatively correct, reflecting the essentials of what happens when radioactive particles interact with a human. The system must be well enough defined that underwriters can reliably estimate their loss associated with a given release. This paper attempts to come up with such a system.

A hint at what’s possible.

Third in three post series on Three Mile Island Meltdown.

Second in a two post series on the Three Mile Island meltdown

First in a three post series on the Three Mile Island meltdown.

The Windscale release shows that it is possible.

The answer espoused herein is speculative; but I find it so plausible, I’m going to declare it to be settled science, which oxymoron means you are not allowed to shoot it down.

We have a handful of rogue bureaucracies which are egregiously violating the EPA/NRC radiation requirements. According to LNT, which is ex cathedra, unquestionable dogma, they are seriously shortening the lives of the people involved. It is not time that Congress step in and protect these victims of heretical agencies?

SNT has been attacked from the pro-nuke side on the grounds that, in accepting the premise that there is no perfectly harmless dose, SNT concedes too much. This school holds nuclear’s future depends on a \STRONG{threshold} dose below which there is absolutely no harm, or better a benefit. This piece argues that combining standard EPA and NRC risk limits with SNT will result in radiation regulatory policies under which nuclear power could thrive, and with it the human race.