Once again we have been treated to yet another round of impotent hand wringing over another unplanned release of radioactive materials , this time in India. This is but a continuance of over a half century of such events that are very well known, primarily within the ‘health physics' community. Health physicists are specialists in biological responses to ionizing radiation and the prevention/reduction of unplanned exposures to people and environmental releases. The issues at hand are long-standing and concerns very uneven international regulation as well as the all too frequently lax implementation of those regulations.  Examples of these shortcomings have been discussed ad nauseum in the Health Physics Society's newsletter for many decades. This sensible and appropriate coverage has yet to be echoed and distributed by more mainstream media outlets that have instead been responsible for what has become de facto traditional conditioning in hysteria for all things...(Read Full Post)