Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard ...

To protect astronauts from cancer-causing radiation in space, NASA should proceed with proposals to set a universal career-long radiation dose limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv), says a new report from ...

The Department of Energy has already cut mentions of the ALARA principle amid a larger push by the White House to change ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...

In a May executive order, aimed at ushering in what he described as an “American nuclear renaissance,” President Donald Trump declared moot the science underpinning decades-old radiation exposure ...

The typical National Dose Registry (NDR) contains the dose records of individuals who are monitored for occupational exposures to ionizing radiation. Individual monitoring of workers exposed to ...