Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard limits and special exceptions.
The Department of Energy in January eliminated what advocates call a critical safety directive but the agency says the “ALARA ...
The Trump administration is reportedly reconsidering a decades-old nuclear radiation standard in a bid to accelerate the ...
Nine leading medical societies have issued a call for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, where clinicians ...
Last May, Trump signed four executive orders aimed at reviving what he called an industry “atrophied” by regulation. The US ...
Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called "cath labs, ...
Radiation doses from computed tomography (CT) scans on patients are variable across patients and hospitals; those radiation doses that are beyond what are necessary to perform adequate CT scans can ...
The DOE proposal rolling back a radiation safety standard may force Congress to weigh nuclear expansion against public health safeguards. A move by the Department of Energy to weaken a decades-old ...