Radioactive releases from the nuclear power sector and implications for child health

ABSTRACT: Although radioactivity is released routinely at every stage of nuclear power generation, the regulation of these releases has never taken into account those potentially most sensitive—women, especially when pregnant, and children. From uranium mining and milling, to fuel manufacture, electricity generation and radioactive waste management, children in frontline and Indigenous communities can be disproportionately harmed due to often increased sensitivity of developing systems to toxic exposures, the lack of resources and racial and class discrimination. The reasons for the greater susceptibility of women and children to harm from radiation exposure is not fully understood. Regulatory practices, particularly in the establishment of protective exposure standards, have failed to take this dif

SUBMITTER: Folkers C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9557777 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature