Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest,

Posted: 13th November 2023

Health physics, a field revived by the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, has been hijacked to provide cover for nuclear disasters, downplay their health impacts, or worse, hide them from public view completely in secret files, reveals historian Kate Brown.

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“Alternative (nuclear) facts”

In a shocking exposé, Kate Brown shows how health physicists are being coached on how to avoid or defeat lawsuits brought by members of the public worried about radiation exposures, especially after nuclear accidents. Much of the work they do is classified. Their response to the 1986 Chornobyl disaster shows heavily politicized science in action. History reveals that the official, feder­ally sponsored cultivation of “alternative facts” is not new but has deep roots in the twentieth century. READ MORE

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