Some in the popular press may have just discovered what many scientists have been saying for more than a decade: a little radiation is good for you. Over the past few months two major publications ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the “Linear No-Threshold” (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering formal proposals that would abandon current regulations that require licensees, such as the one pictured here, to keep human exposure to radiation as ...

When environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst heard recently that the U.S. National Regulatory ...

Medicine, science, and public policy are driven by competing theories about how our bodies react to various substances. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bases its decisions on a linear ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This post was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity. Since World ...

What’s the Straight Dope on radiation hormesis? From what I understand, this hypothesis rejects the current wisdom that if a lot of radiation is very bad, a little bit of radiation is at least ...

I've been lurking and dipping in and out of this thread, and have a scattered assortment of thoughts and somewhat-relevant expertise that I've finally decided to express in words. My bona fides: I've ...

A researcher says a decades-old mistake sent the US down the wrong path when it comes to regulating our radiation exposure. The scientists charged with keeping those policies up to date disagree. At ...