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Inadequate radiation monitoring in USA

.. elevated levels of iodine-131 in rain “a red flag” for public health and said that he is concerned that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which has less stringent radiation exposure guidelines, has superseded the EPA in US response activities……

Adequacy of EPA radiation monitoring system called into question | Michigan Messenger, 6 April 11, Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s network of radiation monitors does not reach the public quickly and some monitors are not functional, critics say.“The monitoring system isn’t functioning fully,” Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California Santa Cruz told WTVM.com.

Hirsch said that EPA is far too slow in sharing data about the radiation that is moving across the country from the nuclear accident in Japan and some of RadNet’s monitoring systems have been offline for months awaiting repairs……

Hirsch called elevated levels of iodine-131 in rain “a red flag” for public health and said that he is concerned that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which has less stringent radiation exposure guidelines, has superseded the EPA in US response activities……

Adequacy of EPA radiation monitoring system called into question | Michigan Messenger

April 7, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA