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For 50 years the nuclear establishment has defended itself by claiming that its discharges are harmless.
But even the smallest amounts of man-made radioactivity can cause genetic damage leading to cancer, leukaemia, still birth, birth defects and other health problems which may only become apparent in future generations.
We are not necessarily talking about accidents - this is happening at levels of discharge which are legal and authorised. It is the biggest and longest running health scandal of all time.
The Low Level Radiation Campaign has been working since 1992 to expose it.
There are two main strands to the Campaign:
- We show that the science underpinning the establishment view of radiation risk is deeply flawed.
- If the science is wrong, then you'd expect health effects from radioactive pollution. We find them, and collect similar results from other researchers.
Infant leukaemia after Chernobyl brings the two strands together, providing clear and incontrovertible evidence that risk factors used by the International Commission on Radiological Protection contain a massive error in the low dose region, underestimating risk by 100 - 300 times.
This is absolutely fundamental to the justification of every aspect of the nuclear industry both civil and military, in the decommissioning phase as well as the operational phase. It also has implications for medical exposures.
On this web site
we lay out the broad topic areas we work in.
These have links on the Navigation bar on the left.
Each link takes you to a page summarising or introducing the topic.
At the foot of each summary page is a link to futher pages stuffed with detail.
Main topics
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Wings of Death: - the problem analysed, an alternative suggested. Everything the determined lay reader needs to understand the case.
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Regulatory policy -- how the authorities help the industry to sell us radioactively contaminated land and materials...
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LLRC's main scientific adviser is Dr. Chris Busby of Green Audit - a Fellow of the University of Liverpool (Faculty of Medicine).
Busby's CV can be downloaded from this site
He wears a Beret. Does it undermine our cred?
LLRC has developed a rather acerbic and dark sense of humour. We think this is probably our defence against the depression that comes from working on such unremitting bad news. See the Strontium Wombles Song
and cartoons like this:-
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A Serjeant Mercer strip cartoon [this is the first frame] illustrating the idiocy of average dose - the concept which the National Radiological Protection Board relies on to exculpate the nuclear establishment. [as a pdf file)]
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The Low Level Radiation Campaign is a company limited by guarantee,
registered in England and Wales
Reg. No. 3821690
registered office: 20 Market Street, Builth Wells, Powys LD2 3EA, UK.
LLRC office 'phone: +44 (0)1597 824771 (United Kingdom)
An alternative sources of advice on radiation risk
ICRP's position is purely advisory; people are free to take other advice if they wish to (ICRP Scientific Secretary, 1998)
Now, in 2003 a new source of advice has appeared -
the Recommendations of the
European Committee on Radiation Risk
- a most important new development.
(the links take you to the ECRR web site)
CERRIE
(Committee Examining Radiation Risk of Internal Emitters).
This British Government scientific advisory committee assessing the risks of nuclear pollution was set up by Environment Minister Michael Meacher in 2001. Its two LLRC representatives were finally gagged following preposterous legal threats on the part of the Chairman Dudley Goodhead and lawyers from the Department of Health and DEFRA.
CERRIE section of web site
In September 2004 we launched the CERRIE Minority Report - the material they tried to silence
If you are seeing this page full screen (i.e. without a navigation bar on the left) you can't see how the rest of the site is organised.
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This
Home page link takes you to the index page, which has links to all the topics we discuss on the site.
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Send email to: SiteManager@llrc.org with questions or comments about this web site.
