Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1987
ISSN
0046-1121
Publisher
University of California Berkeley School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
On December 20, 1985, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed revisions to its Standards for Protection Against Radiation [hereinafter Standards].1 If adopted, the new Standards will provide additional protection for millions of workers and their unborn children. The effects of the Standards will extend, however, far beyond the health of those exposed to radiation. Specifically, the NRC's proposal may provide a new paradigm for regulating health hazards that have no safe threshold level of exposure. It will also focus debate on whether or not women should be precluded from working in fetotoxic environments
Recommended Citation
Michael S. Baram & Neal Smith,
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Regulation of Radiation Hazards in the Workplace: Present Problems and New Approaches to Reproductive Health
,
in
13
Ecology Law Quarterly
879
(1987).
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