Rancho Seco land released for public use Oct 24, 2009
In total, 80 acres of the site now fall below the commission s regulatory requirements of a maximum annual dose from residual contamination of 25 millirem. The average person in the United States receives about 300 millirem a year from natural and other background radiation, according to SMUD.. (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
Response about nuclear Oct 23, 2009
Have all investors live on such acreage: A new nuclear power plant emits about one millirem a year of radiation. You get 10 times that with a dental exam or a breast exam and you get 10-15 millirems a year if you smoke cigarettes. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
NIXING NUKE POWER Mar 13, 2009
Yet normal cosmic radiation delivers a dose of 26 millirems a year at sea level. If you moved from Manhattan to Denver, you'd be about doubling that. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Good Riddance, Yucca Mountain Mar 4, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency duly issued its first-ever million-year regulation, a maximum legal limit for release of radioactive materials at 15 millirem per year for the first 10,000 years and 100 millirem for the next 990,000. Nevadans of the 10,021st century would have to figure out themselves what to do about the 0. (Slate)
NUKE-IN-A-BOX? Feb 9, 2009
Facts4Truth wrote on Feb 8, 2009 2:40 PM:" I agree with graygringo, let us not forget TMI. Let us remember TMI and learn from it! Let us remember that no one died and no one was even injured. Let us remember that the maximum radiation dose anyone received was less than 100 millirem or about the same as one medical CT scan. Let us remember that the actual release had negligible effects on the health of the environment and people. Let us also remember that because of the media and emergency... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
