William Bryan: “This is not about science. This is about politics, as he reminds us. Because the time is short, I will respond to some…”

“This is not about science. This is about politics, as he reminds us. Because the time is short, I will respond to some of the issues that have been raised. First of all, we have heard many paeans to the nuclear power industry. Whether you are for or against nuclear power is not the issue. I might say, parenthetically, there is nothing preventing any community that wants to establish a nuclear reactor from doing so. That is a matter of community choice. The fact that for 20 years no community has chosen to do so may tell us the concerns people have about their health and safety. Here are the issues--and the only issues. The question is one of health and safety. Who is going to make that determination? Is it going to be the Environmental Protection Agency, which, by law, for 20 years has provided that standard? What this is all about, when striped to the bare bones, is an attempt to circumvent the standard proposed by the EPA of 15 millirems.”