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The deadline for comment to the US NRC on the 100 mSv per year exposure proposal, also known as one or more cancers for everyone, is November 19th at 11.59 pm Eastern Time. http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NRC-2015-0057 However, complaint to government officials and education should continue after this date.

Whether through millions of years of evolution and/or because God made everything and it was good, radiation induced mutations are likely to have either damaging effects or no impact.

Dr. Timothy Mousseau explains that the idea that radiation is good for you (hormesis) is flawed from a basic biological and evolutionary point of view: “From an evolutionary point of view, from a fundamental genetics point of view, it [hormesis] makes no sense… Our genetic systems have been refined and optimized… the truth is most mutations that occur in all organisms either have no effect because of the redundancy in the basic genetic…