Issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow cleanup many times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted. These guides govern evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.”The government employees of the ruling One Percent (Obama and EPA staff) no doubt expect more incidents of radiation exposure, the most likely source of which will likely occur from the inadequate and dangerous condition of the existing storage sites of radioactive waste. In my own neighborhood, reports have slowly been appearing in mainstream media about leaking 40 year old containers (likely leaking into the Columbia river) and other hazards at the Hanford nuclear site (central Washington state) which contains probably the most radioactive waste in the world. This site is a disaster waiting to happen.
The history of the Environmental Protection Agency, like most government regulatory agencies staffed by people from the industries they are supposed to regulate, has functioned largely to protect the nuclear industries from public outrage and law suits as recently documented in Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen.
