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Lawrence Solomon: Lauding low doses

The dose makes the poison, toxicology pioneer Paracelsus noted. A revolutionary field called hormesis shows that dangerous substances can be beneficial at low levels To the greatest extent possible,...

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Lawrence Solomon: Radiation’s benefits

Will a gamma ray a day keep the doctor away? A new book says low-level radiation may prevent cancer By Lawrence Solomon ‘There is no safe level of radiation.” For the last 30 years, my colleagues and I...

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Lawrence Solomon: Port Hope — a hot spot that may be cool

Nuclear workers in Port Hope contract fewer cancers Thirty-five years ago, Canada’s first radioactive cleanup of a contaminated town was ordered for Port Hope, Ont., after my organization, Energy...

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Lawrence Solomon: The apples and oranges of radiation 

We may need to scrap the current ­regulatory regime Prior to the Second World War, radiation was considered safe, even healthy, in small doses. After the war, and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

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Lawrence Solomon: Japan’s radioactive fallout could have silver lining

Low exposure to the Nagasaki atomic blast resulted in longer lifespans The immense suffering that the Japanese are enduring in the aftermath of their earthquake and tsunami is now compounded by torment...

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Lawrence Solomon: Avert Chernobyl-style hysteria in Japan

Japan Defence MinistryFukushima reactor no. 2: Chernobyl evacuation caused more damage than radiation. Turn down the dial on radiation fears Next to Chernobyl, the Fukushima accident is the worst...

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Lawrence Solomon: Plutonium for Pluto

Plutonium, one of the most feared radioactive substances on earth, may in fact enhance human health, according to unexpected new findings published in the journal, Health Physics. The new findings...

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Lawrence Solomon: You can trust Japan’s radiation data, Greenpeace says

Greenpeace’s independent radiation monitoring teams have confirmed that the Japanese authorities are not lying about the extent of radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear plant. At a press...

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Podcast: Lawrence Solomon on radiation in Japan

Lawrence Solomon joins Financial Post reporters Eric Lam and John Shmuel for the FP Big Picture podcast. This week on the podcast: The devastating earthquake in Japan only three weeks ago has created...

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Lawrence Solomon: Dams are worse

ReutersEven the Chernobyl disaster may have killed just 15 people in the general population. A forgotten 1975 Chinese disaster killed 230,000 people Japan’s ongoing disaster at the Fukushima nuclear...

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Lawrence Solomon: Nuclear power extremes

Postmedia NewsThe Darlington nuclear plant in Ontario. The problems with nuclear support from both right and left It’s becoming increasingly common for environmentalists to be pro-nuclear — the list...

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Lawrence Solomon: Death of a maverick

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, winner of a 1977 Nobel prize in medicine and a lifelong fighter against personal and professional prejudice in science, died last week at age 89. Some of her fights were...

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The Rubber Duckies: Scaring cell users

By Lawrence Solomon The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a working group of the World Health Organization, wins an Honourable Mention in this year’s Rubber Ducky Award for coming...

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Lawrence Solomon: Canada’s bad ­radiation cancer data

Radiation exposure may have been underreported in the 1950s and ’60s, making it appear more deadly Low levels of radiation measurably increase deaths from cancer. Or so concluded a 15-country study...

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Lawrence Solomon: The Green Goliath takes on nuclear

Renewables lobby tackles ­nuclear subsidies — but not its own Thirty years ago, ragtag environmentalists idealistically opposed nuclear power and the monopoly utilities that kept it in business,...

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