[CRNMC] Fwd: Radioactive waste

[Linda Jupiter]

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>> From: "Sarah Alexander" <noreply at list.moveon.org>
>> Date: July 28, 2014 at 2:34:14 PM PDT
>> Subject: Radioactive waste
>> Reply-To: "Sarah Alexander" <salexander at fwwatch.org>
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>> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to weaken rules created in 1977 that already allow nuclear power plants to release radioactive waste into our water and air. But there is no safe level of radiation.
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>> Tell the EPA to strengthen rules to protect water from radioactive waste, not weaken them.
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>> The existing EPA standard allows a whopping 1 in 500 of us to get cancer from nuclear power in the U.S. The risks are even higher for women and children. Since radiation is now known to be much more dangerous than believed back when it was adopted, the EPA should reduce the amount of radioactivity allowed to be released. But EPA is considering increasing it.
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>> Weakening radiation protection for the nuclear industry is a dangerous precedent to set, when other extraction industries like fracking also threaten our water with more radioactivity. 
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>> Tell the EPA to set standards that reduce our risk of getting cancer and other health effects.
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>> Thanks for all you do,
>> 
>> Sarah Alexander
>> Deputy Organizing Director
>> Food & Water Watch
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