Radiation Risks in Perspective

“Radiation Risks in Perspective” considers a factual, balanced approach to assessing, prioritizing and managing risk. Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited regulatory resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks. The result is great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health. The public’s inability to comprehend small, theoretical risks arrived at through inherently uncertain formulae, coupled with an irrational push to eliminate all risk with no contextual understanding of overall benefit, results in a forfeiture of valuable advances in technology in favor of an illusion of safety.