"Did I mention Americans are heavily armed? Do my Second Amendment rights outweigh someone else’s LNT mythology?"

I have a new favorite blog.  Dr. James Conca, who we visited last week in Richland, is a scientist who is able to take a complicated issue like nuclear power and nuclear waste, which also has complicated regulatory and policy components and an added layer of public fear and mistrust, and distill it down into the important components.

He has compelling arguments for why the linear no threshold (LNT - something my ESCI 333 students should know about) is an inaccurate and overly burdensome approach to limiting risk from radioactive materials.  The implications sometimes of being overly protective can be beneficial, but in the case of radioactive materials, the fear can be more damaging.  Complicated issues, for sure, but important ones for all of us to understand...