TITLE 10 – ATOMIC ENERGY
Chapter I – Atomic Energy Commission
PART 20 – STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
Federal Register Tuesday, January 29, 1957 pp 549-554
Editor’s Note: The Atomic Energy Commission produced a set of safe levels of radiation exposure for nuclear workers that today are nuclear accidents, for instance the exposure for hands and forearms feet and neck is 1500 mrems per week in 1957. Today the exposure of citizens for a year is 100 mrems, 10 for children! The USNRDL’s standard established in 1946 by Dr. Joseph Hamilton of the University of California Berkeley which was in use until 1969 was 100 mrems per hour.
These levels are very important for when an agency claims it has cleaned up an area, you have to ask what were the standards used to clean up that area and when was it cleaned?
So for example in this document it discusses the safe levels of radiation drained into sewers. For instance we know that the GE Nuclear Energy disposed of nuclear waste by pouring it down the drain into the sewer system of San Jose using the 1957 standards.
The 1957 Standards for Protection Against Radiation:
TITLE 10 – ATOMIC ENERGY
Chapter I – Atomic Energy Commission
PART 20 – STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
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