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Radiation safety standards decided on by nuclear industry

providing the oversight on themselves–policing their own industry just like the banking and financial industry did before their massive taxpayer bailout.

People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 “…. Kathleen Krevetski – “In the United States, the NRC’s technical and safety regulations governing nuclear power plants are developed by the private nuclear industry using voluntary consensus standards. The owners of the nuclear power plants, the suppliers and manufacturers who sell the nuclear fuel, as well as the builders of nuclear power plants, are providing the oversight on themselves–policing their own industry just like the banking and financial industry did before their massive taxpayer bailout. Most of those standards in use are outdated but are still in use by the nuclear industry. They would never pass muster today knowing what we know.

Of course, what we know today as far as the effect of radioactive contamination is being ignored. The NRC is allowing radioactive tritium contamination across the country. Tritium caused mutagic effects on DNA especially in the unborn, but the NRC thinks it’s OK for the decrepit, aging plants to wash it away in our rivers. That’s OK with them, but it’s not to the kids or women drinking that water downstream. The NRC tells us it will not harm us and no one has the jurisdiction over them to dispute what they say or are allowed to do.

People Power Trumps Corporate Power: R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

March 2, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive, reactor, uranium