If your job requires you to work with radiation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), whose mission it is to protect public health and safety, worries that you are getting too much protection from radiation exposure.

Yep, you read that right.

To solve this vexing problem, the NRC is preparing to make wholesale changes to the rules covering workplace radiation protection. Changes that will help the nuclear industry…and kill nuclear workers…

Food safety advocates and public health watchdogs are warning of a “quiet but sweeping overhaul” in a decades-long radiation regulation that could increase radioactive isotopes in domestic agriculture soils, rivers, aquifers and the food chain.

 At the heart of their concerns is the difference between the current regulation on radioactivity and the proposed change put forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…

According to the NRC’s own analysis, the proposed rollback is projected to nearly double the fatal cancer risk for individuals living near these facilities over a 70-year lifespan, a change designed to save the nuclear industry an estimated mere $9.53 million annually, which is a drop in the bucket compared to cancer treatment cost.

August 11, news brokethat Governor Newsom decided he wouldn't further extend the operating

licenses of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant’s reactors, but leave it to his successor to decide after his term expires at the end of this year. August 12, Kimberly Roberson, Director of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) issued the following statement on radiation risks in California, and the potential impacts of looser NRC radiation exposure standards on Californians: