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LNT is prudent.

Gordian Knot News • 205 implied HN points • 27 Feb 24
🔬 Science Radiation Regulation Risk Assessment Public Health Nuclear power
  1. Pursuing safety in a cost-effective way is crucial to prevent harm and save lives.
  2. The Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model, while used for regulatory purposes, can come with enormous costs to humanity due to its over-conservatism.
  3. Focusing solely on minimizing radiation exposure without considering other costs may lead to unnecessary harm and consequences, such as deadly evacuations and ruined lives.

Thinking through Linear With Threshold

Gordian Knot News • 65 implied HN points • 02 Mar 24
🔬 Science Radiation Models Repair
  1. Linear No Threshold (LNT) is criticized for over-predicting harm in low dose rate situations like nuclear power plant releases.
  2. Linear With Threshold (LWT) models have variations where the threshold is on dose or dose rate.
  3. LWT models, although an improvement, still have flaws in considering the repair period after radiation exposure.

Germany Celebrates Fealty To Depopulation Lobby With Shut Down Of Nuclear Energy Sector

Matt Ehret's Insights • 1316 implied HN points • 30 Apr 23
🌍 World Politics Nuclear Energy Renewable Energy Radiation Decarbonization
  1. Germany and other European nations are shutting down nuclear energy sectors, citing concerns of sustainability and green energy production.
  2. Low dose radiation has been found to have positive health effects, despite common fears of radioactivity.
  3. Transitioning solely to solar and wind energy may not be as sustainable as expected, as it leads to toxic waste and high energy costs.
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Cheap nuclear is healthy nuclear

Gordian Knot News • 139 implied HN points • 15 Oct 23
🔬 Science Nuclear Radiation Health Energy
  1. Engineers must balance desirable factors like performance and safety in their work.
  2. Our understanding of numbers and rational thinking is a relatively recent development.
  3. Low levels of radiation exposure from nuclear accidents may not cause measurable harm and nuclear energy can have health benefits compared to fossil fuels.

Circling the LNT Wagons

Gordian Knot News • 205 implied HN points • 26 Aug 23
🔬 Science Radiation Health Studies Cancer
  1. The Linear No-Threshold theory (LNT) in radiation protection is being challenged due to its assumption that harm is solely based on cumulative dose, ignoring dose rate and repair ability.
  2. Studies on nuclear workers show limitations as they only focus on cumulative doses and do not consider variations in dose rates, which are crucial for understanding radiation harm.
  3. The INWORKS study, which supports LNT, has faced criticism for excluding certain data, lacking dose rate information, and not making data available, raising questions about its scientific validity.

The case for 1 mSv per day

Gordian Knot News • 212 implied HN points • 16 Jul 23
🔬 Science Radiation Biology Nuclear power Health Risks
  1. The recommended radiation exposure limit for the general public was 2 mSv/day until 1951, when it was changed to 3 mSv/week.
  2. A dose of 2 mSv/day is considered safe as it is based on biological repair mechanisms that can handle DNA damage from radiation and natural processes.
  3. Maintaining a limit of 2 mSv/day could prevent unnecessary evacuations and help make nuclear power a more economical and environmentally friendly energy source.

Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interested in Solving

Zero Day • 140 HN points • 08 Aug 23
🔬 Science Radiation Data Manipulation Investigation
  1. Radiation sensors at Chernobyl spiked after the Russian invasion, leading to suspicions of data manipulation.
  2. Patterns in the data from sensors indicated possible data manipulation rather than actual radiation spikes.
  3. The disappearance of the server and hard drives from the Ecocenter raised questions about who may have tampered with the sensor data.