Atomic Ideology Blinds Reason

Rod Adams, an avid pro-nuke, has a blog on the ANS Nuclear Cafe about radiation protection standards.  It includes a 54 Mb download, which I may get to, but I certainly don't have any desire to after reading its introduction.  He doesn't realize that using the risk estimates that the EPA applies to all environmental pollutants (1E-4 to 1E-6 risk of death to highest exposed), radiation protection regulations are actually very lax (licensees allowed to expose general public to 100 mrem/yr, there is a 1E-4 risk of cancer incidence or 5E-5 risk of cancer death per year, assume 30 years of exposure and you get 1.5 E-3 overall cancer dearh risk, higher than normal.)