8/9/2011 Budget Deal Could Crush Low-Dose Radiation Research

Source: Forbes
Date: 8/09/2011 @ 09:16AM
by: Jeff McMahon

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Much has been written about the probable effects on renewable energy of the budget deal struck between President Obama and Congressional Republicans last week.

Solar panels and windmills, boosted by a massive influx of funding from the Stimulus Package in 2009, will see subsidies dry up when they expire in 2012. But wind and solar won’t be the only casualties in the Energy Department.

The nation’s only Low-Dose Radiation Research program is likely to suffer a severe cut in funding not long after the United States was blanketed with low doses of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
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5/9/2011 | Canada and U.S. cut back radiation reporting

Source: CBC News
Date: May 9, 2011 12:00 PM PT
Last Updated: May 9, 2011 2:21 PM PT
by: By Mike Laanela

Radiation monitors like these in Sidney, B.C., did detect minuscule increases in radiation from the troubled Japanese reactors. (CBC)

 

Canadian and U.S. authorities have both cut back radiation reporting after detecting only minuscule increases following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, despite ongoing clean-up efforts in Japan.

"The quantities of radiation reaching Canada are very small and do not pose any health risk to Canadians," said a statement posted by Health Canada online.

"We have seen very slight increases in radiation across the country, smaller than the normal day-to-day fluctuations," said the website.

As a result the daily reporting of radiation levels has been rolled back to weekly reporting by Health Canada.
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