The Environmental Protection Agency has recently revised its "Protective Action Guidelines" (PAGs) that would be used during and following a nuclear disaster. These PAGs basically admit that contamination levels could be so high from such an event that they may not be able to be cleaned up to existing standards such as the drinking water contamination levels. Thus, EPA would permit unacceptably high radiation risks at each of the stages after nuclear disaster without even suggesting any steps to prevent or minimize the potential disasters.
Send your comment to EPA below. Tell it to drop these outrageous PAGs and act to strengthen radiation protection standards instead.
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Tell the EPA: Strengthen radiation protection standards; drop current PAGs
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