[ RadSafe ] Makhijani picocuries

[Franta, Jaroslav]

NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Wednesday, August 3, 2005
U.S. NEWS:
--AN IEER REPORT SAYS EPA SHOULD SET STRICTER STANDARDS FOR RADIONUCLIDES in

drinking water. The federally allowed levels of drinking water contamination
by 
plutonium-239, an atomic bomb ingredient, and other radioactive materials
with 
similar properties are 100 times too high, according to the report released 
today the Institute for Energy & Environmental Research (IEER), an
antinuclear 
environmental group. The maximum contaminant levels (MCLs), now part of the 
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Act, were based
on 
obsolete 1950s science, said Arjun Makhijani, IEER president and author of
the 
report. EPA is scheduled to review the MCLs next year. IEER said EPA should 
reduce the MCLs for all alpha-emitting, long-lived transuranic
radionuclides, 
combined, by 100 times to a level of 0.15 picocuries per liter. The report
is on 
the IEER Web site (http://www.ieer.org).
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