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Trump's Unsung Economic Booster: Deregulation

What level of radiation may a U.S. nuclear power plant emit? 'As low as reasonably achievable,' the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has long declared. It bases this on the assumption that there is no safe level of exposure to radiation. This assumption—called 'linear no-threshold' or LNT—isn't rigorously supported by science. There is little consensus that radiation at extremely low levels is harmful.