Today: 18.Jan.2017

Wade Allison, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Oxford University has dedicated many years to studying, documenting, teaching people and governments around the world the facts of low dose and low dose rate radiation. This document submitted to Parliment in London has received high praise by many scientists. It is easy reading and important for everyone to know.

Published in Radiation

David R. Grimes,physicist and cancer researcher at Oxford University. Thirty years has passed since events in Chernobyl, while Japan marks the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. We need more than ever to have a reasoned discussion on the issues. It is important also to see these disasters in the wider context of energy production: when the Banqiao hydroelectric dam failed in China in 1975 it led to at least 171000 deaths and displaced 11 million people. Our reliance on fossil fuels is particularly costly, not only to the environment but to human health; each year, at least 1.3 million people are estimated to die from air pollution. Shutdown of the plants in Japan has led to not only increased pollution, but rolling blackouts and protests. By contrast, France has for decades produced 75% of its energy through nuclear, and enjoys the cleanest air and among the lowest carbon emissions of any industrialised nature.

Published in Energy Today

Wade Allison, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Oxford University - This book expands on the message of Radiation and Reason (2009) following the Fukushima accident (2011). It is a broader study of the historical, cultural and scientific interactions of radiation with life; it asks why society takes such a cautious view of nuclear technology; it looks at the effects of nuclear accidents and other radiation exposures; it looks at the efficacy of safety, as provided by nature and as imposed by regulation; it explains how biological evolution prepared life to survive exposures to low and moderate levels of radiation; it asks if nuclear energy would be expensive, if normal levels of information, education, safety and design were applied.

Published in Radiation

Jerry Cuttler: At Fukushima, the radiation levels in the evacuated areas were within the range of naturally occurring radiation. No adverse effects at those higher doses have ever been observed. The precautions taken to avoid highly questionable hypothetical health risks that are have proved to be very harmful themselves.

Published in Radiation