Unfortunately this spans across exposure at Pacific island nuclear test sites in the 1950s, in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, around the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and via depleted Uranium use in current operations.
Highlighting the historical issues of unrecorded radiation exposure for soldiers and veterans.
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We’re going to get to ‘yes’ faster. We’re also going to get to ‘no’ faster when a project is harmful.
I would be very concerned if this were an engineered pathogen. I don't have any unique information saying that is the case. But if it were the case, that would be cause for alarm.
In the short term, what I'd really like to see is a hand-in-glove approach between Russia and the World Health Organization. That would tell us a lot.
Our whole premise as we approached this permitting bill was: How do we create a faster process, not lower the bar on standards.
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