The Oregon Conservancy Foundation (OCF)

The Oregon Conservancy Foundation (OCF) calls out the proposed "Radiation Protection Framework" rule changes for what they are: more of the familiar public relations playbook followed for decades by the nuclear industry and our government.  This deceptive and misleading playbook highlights alleged “benefits” of more nuclear power while minimizing and suppressing the serious harms to workers and the public by increasing radiation pollution exposure. The theme is “a reckless denial of reality” as illustrated by physicist Dr. Rudi Nussbaum of Physicians for Social Responsibilty who wrote in 2011 in the aftermath of Fukushima: “In agencies that are mandated to protect public health a mindset that denies reality is intolerable.”  We believe that the mindset reflected in these proposed rule changes is a continuation of the betrayal of workers, the public, and generations to come: reckless and intolerable.

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