Reference Girl $5,000 Summer Matching Grant
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Generational Radiation Impact ProjectStandards for radiation protection should be based on young girls who are most harmed by radiation.
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August 16 Update
We are hard at work getting people to submit comments to the DOCKET that is open now, until August 31, on a bad move by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to lower radiation protection.
Anyone can comment--and everyone should since the NRC rules apply to major industrial activities like nuclear power reactors all the way to major medical facilities, and how much radiation a patient can take home. To make a comment, see below.
Watch an introductory Webinar:
https://psr.org/resources/changes-to-national-radiation-rules-threaten-public-health-families-communities/
GRIP Founder and CEO is the second speaker. Our Reference Girl Project is not the focal point--once she is ready she will be the basis for more work to PROTECT BETTER!
Protect Better is a campaign sponsored by a new coalition that GRIP is part of.
MAKE A COMMENT to the NRC--there is no limit to the number of comments you can put in the Docket--thank you for inviting others to join.
https://www.protectbetter.org/nrc-comments
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Reference Girl is a collaborative project
Radiation is dangerous--there is no safe level of exposure--the higher the exposure level, the higher the level of disease, however, even an exposure too small to measure may, sometimes, result in fatal cancer. *
Because of this, radiation is regulated by the government if it is man-made. Radiation and radioactivity are primarily made by splitting atoms in nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Nuclear medicine is also regulated. Today the exposure from a regulated activity is measured on a "stand-in" -- like a crash test dummy, but in this case it is an individual known as Reference Man. Every single evaluation made under radiation regulations assume that the exposure is to Reference Man.
The definition of Reference Man makes it clear that he is an adult, a white male who has an urban industrial lifestyle. He doesn't drink milk or eat eggs from his own domestic animals, or feed himself from a garden. His water comes from a regulated supply.
But, this means the most impacted people are left out--invisible. Reference Girl Project was given a big lift in 2024 when GRIP CEO Mary Olson coauthored a UN report with Dr Amanda M Nichols, Gender and Ionizing Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda Addressing Disproportionate Harm . The report contains many citations and discussion of ongoign research that continues to show that female bodies are more harmed than male bodies, and children are more harmed than adults. This means that little girls are the most harmed post-birth life phase.
In order to deliver protection of human life--it is vital that ALL of the human lifecycle be protected. The cycle cannot continue if any one part is lost. Little girls are an inextricable link that will produce future generations--or not!
HELP US create a new model, based on those most-harmed. Support our work to build Reference Girl.
THANK YOU.