Radiation and Reason - Radiation and Reason, the impact of science on a culture of fear

3/4 Aug 2016 Two invited talks given at BAPETEN, Jakarta Nuclear Safety and Public Understanding

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Wade Allison is a member of the international Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI) radiationeffects.org

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Further information about "Radiation and Reason, The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear" (Oct 2009) is below.

24 May 2016 UK Parliamentary S&T Committee: click Written submission to Science in Emergencies Inquiry

2 May 2016 Click to download pdf Nuclear Power for Humanity and the Environment (343 Kb), More education, not more safety, required. Regulations should be changed utterly.

4 March UK Parliamentary Welsh Affairs Committee: click Written submission to Nuclear Power Inquiry

24 Mar 2015 Tokyo SAMRAI Scientific Conf. Inv. paper by Allison SRI / Legislators Cmttee on Effects of Radiation

3 Dec 2014 FCCJ Press Conf, Tokyo Time for the scientific, environmental and economic truth about nuclear power video, and here is a pdf of the accompanying handout

3 Oct 2014 Radiation and Reason: A Fresh Look at the Effect of Radiation On Life (Lecture for 16/17 yrs, 58 mins)

18 Aug 2014 Why radiation is safe & all nations should embrace nuclear technology (video with slides) and a version with Japanese subtitles and slides

4 June 2014 INTERVIEW Why we should not fear radiation! 13 mins

6 May 2014 Energy Prices, the Climate and the Nuclear Bubble (117 Kb)

22 Mar 2014 What a waste -- what a complete misunderstanding! (118 Kb)

10 April 2014 What Nuclear Needs Today (2.7 Mb) at InstChemEng. Sustainable Nuclear Energy Conference, Manchester

3 Oct 2013 VIDEO CERN Colloquium "Radiation and Reason; Why radiation at modest dose rates is quite harmless and current radiation safety regulations are flawed" 1hr 30mins incl. Q&A

27 Dec 2013 Better and Safer than Fire (473 Kb), "Man's Fear of Nuclear Technology is Mistaken"

In the book "Radiation and Reason"

Wade Allison explains, in simple terms and without using fancy maths, how radiation affects life. He is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford with 40 years of teaching experience.

His account challenges the traditional view that nuclear radiation is hard to understand and an extreme hazard. Modern scientific and medical evidence makes it obvious that this view is wrong -- but how dangerous is ionising radiation? Thanks to evolution, biology protects life and radiation is about a thousand times safer than suggested by current international safety standards -- but readers should look at the evidence for themselves and make up their own minds.

A little nuclear radiation is quite harmless and in a world of other dangers -- social and economic instability, global warming, population growth, shortages of power, food and water -- the pursuit of the lowest possible radiation levels is in nobody's best interest. Levels should be permitted as high as is relatively safe (AHARS). Radiation, far from being a major cause of cancer, is one of its major cures through radiotherapy applied in every major hospital.

Without justification great damage has been inflicted on public health and economic life in Japan as a result of the accident at Fukushima. Throughout the world the intention of many countries to abandon the use of nuclear power or load it with ever greater safety regulation and cost is unnecessary, and even dangerous to the future of mankind. Evidently there should be a complete change of approach by the United Nations towards radiological safety.

3 Oct 2013 Radiation Science and Society (83 Kb), to the Oxford and Cambridge Dining Club of Geneva
10 Sept 2013 Why nuclear is the ideal energy source (379 Kb)
2 July 2013 WhyFearofRadiationisWrong (1.9 Mb), slides of an explanation for a general audience
19 June 2013 Medical conference Lecture slides (June 2013) (1.7 Mb), urgent need to reform radiological safety
12 May 2013 Visit Radiation and nuclear technology: Safety without science is dangerous
8 May 2013 Download article The world economy and the application of science (61 Kb)
4 May 2013 Data on risk from Internal radioactivity at Goiania and Fukushima (101 Kb)
6 April 2013 Open Radiation- Friend or Enemy? and unedited survey of submitted views.
4 April 2013 Industrial safety compromised by ALARA regulations new Nuclear Safety info (49 Kb)
3 Jan 2013 For everybody to read, think about and decide themselves Confidence & Prosperity (109 Kb)
or A new attitude to nuclear safety (97 Kb)}.
11 Dec 2012 Nuclear Power Briefing Warsaw The Road to Public Confidence in Nuclear Energy (696 Kb)
15 Oct 2012 At Oxford Energy Society lecture (6.4 Mb) and see video below
12 Sept 2012 An educational article for all, An appreciation of Nuclear and its safety (237 Kb).
28 July 2012 On German nuclear policy (56 Kb), published in FOCUS magazin in Germany.
14 July 2012 An article refuting the conclusion of the NAIIC Report (2.4 Mb) on the causes of the Fukushima accident, also published in Japanese.
27 June 2012 Invited lecture at ANS Meeting, Chicago (3.2 Mb) "A Tragedy of Misunderstanding: there was no major radiation disaster at Fukushima"
20 Mar 2012 Public Trust in Nuclear Energy (194 Kb)
Dec 2011 Submission to UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology
29 Aug 2011 A lecture: "Why radiation is far safer (546 Kb) than current regulations suppose"
26 Mar 2011 Article published by BBC World Service "We should stop running away from radiation"

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In the book "Radiation and Reason"

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