Hey, it worked well for Peter Parker and Hiroshima, why not the rest of us?
“…a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you…”
We’re all Flint, Michigan, now.
I’ve worked with radiation most of my professional career, and I never heard anyone say low dose exposure is “healthy”. In fact, the radiation license policy for research labs is to limit exposure as much as possible. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
BTW, that x-ray on the right looks like a shark attack.
What next?
Seriously?
“Right now we spend an enormous effort trying to minimize low doses” at nuclear power plants, for example, said Brant Ulsh, a physicist with the California-based consulting firm M.H. Chew and Associates. “Instead, let’s spend the resources on minimizing the effect of a really big event.”
We are thrilled to learn that you haven’t already spent enough to minimize “the effect of a really big event.”
The radiation regulation is supported by Steven Milloy, a Trump transition team member for the EPA who is known for challenging widely accepted ideas about manmade climate change and the health risks of tobacco.
Challenge? No. He is a paid bullshitter who doesn’t care about the suffering of people he doesn’t know.
This is complete horseshit. Calabrese’s idea is a hypothesis.
“The radiation regulation is supported by Steven Milloy, a Trump
transition team member for the EPA who is known for challenging widely
accepted ideas about manmade climate change and the health risks of
tobacco.”
Not a cough in a carload.
As someone who spent some time on a nuclear submarine I’m going to have call bullshit on this one.
Mr. Burns wrote this
That’s the signal Commissioner Gordon shines into the night sky to summon the aid of the Sharkman.
Give that guy a Chyrnobel Prize.
(Fun fact: his favorite vegetable is ketchup.)
Calabrese, who made those remarks
Good I demand he go first and show us…
Trump and this charlatan goes first. Go on – radiate yourself. You said it’s “healthy”.
Outrageous. Drive them all out of Washington!
But a golf clap for AP, which shows that once in a while they can quote someone and then quote someone else saying the first quoted person is wrong. So someone there knows you’re allowed to do that! Keep up the good work. 
This is no big deal. After a generation or two of living under the new exposure limit rules Americans will give the decision glowing reviews.
This administration is savagely evil.
Radiation is fine, loosen regulations
Air, corps need cheaper production, reduce regulations
Water, reduce regulations! Let them drink bottled water
Trade with our allies, go to war
Hug all dictators and say you love them
Kids… cage and drug them
Indians, Mexicans, Muslims, shit hole countries… fuck ‘em
And on and on and on
The EPA is worse than a joke.
It has become evil.
It’s what happens when lobbyists write laws.
Great if you’re a GOP congressman, no need to hire a staff.
Contrary to this AP story, there’s solid research that radiation hormesis (levels under 100 cGy) can SOMETIMES have all sorts of benefits including stimulating immune response and DNA repair. That’s not what the EPA’s talking about, however. Here’s a good survey on hormesis research: http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/43/4/242.full