Plutonium vs. Bananas and Sunshine

"The www.llrc.org advice on precautions is the best we can offer. It is very hard to know what is travelling to where, and harder still to trust the authorities. One thing that might help is for a sufficient number of people to threaten the EPA with a law suit for reckless endangerment if they do not start monitoring for the full range of radionuclides including Uranium and if they do not immediately publish the results as hard data (e.g. ## Becquerels of Uranium 238 per cubic metre air, plus data is the same form for plutonium, strontium 90 Iodine 131 at minimum) They must NOT convert to dose estimates in sieverts or grays or rads or rems unless they also publish the raw data in Becquerels. The logic is that the risk model they are using depends on dose which is a largely invalid quantity for intenal radioactivity. People need the raw data and an alternative risk model - we advise the European Committee on Radiation Risk (www.euradcom.org) Circulate this advice to as many people as possible especially lawyers. Meantime I will refine the advice and post it on the site. I have added your email address to our lists so you will be notified when this is done.