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The Department of Energy Ends ALARA

By ending the ALARA principle, DOE opens the door to science-based radiation regulation that could restore nuclear power’s ...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright killed the Department of Energy’s decades-old radiation safety standard Friday.
When Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on January 12 announced that the DOE had ended the use of the “As Low as Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA) principle for radiation safety directives and ...
Defenders of the “as low as reasonably achievable” principle say it's the linchpin of a safety-first regulatory culture.
The resilience of bad ideas is both damaging and demoralizing. Strong evidence of this can be found in “The Bad Science Behind Expensive Nuclear,” a new Works in Progress essay. Writer Alex Chalmers ...