Date Published: 02/16/2009 [Source]
Some activists have concerns about radiation from nuclear power plants.
In his editorial, Steven Milloy argues that, according to the US EPA, the average person in the US receives a radiation dose of about 360 millirem per year. About 80 percent of this is from rocks and soils, mostly in the form of radon, and cosmic radiation from space. Natural dosage varies greatly by location.
The allowable levels of radiation that a nuclear power plant may emit is 25 millirem per year.