WASHINGTON – The White House has endorsed a plan to relax long-held
standards for cleaning up radioactive material released by a nuclear
power plant disaster or act of terrorism, a group of federal officials
say in a new draft report.
As expected, the recently completed
draft report on radiation remediation parts ways with standard U.S.
practice and suggests guidelines under which as many as one in 23 people
would be expected to develop cancer from long-term radiation exposure.
The claim that the White House has agreed to abandon standard protocol
in some instances is new.
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