TIME:
Wednesday May 7th, 2025 at 6:00 PM (GMT-5) – Wednesday May 7th, 2025 at 6:40 PM (GMT-5)
TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Contact Todd DeRyck and request the Zoom link
DESCRIPTION:
Rick Mott will be presenting on how the current radiation protection standards came to be accepted worldwide, the issues, errors and “head scratching” with how we got to this point. Rick will then discuss how radiation protection standards need to be improved, updated and based on overwhelming scientific data and evidence.
Rick is a retired electrical engineer. He spent a career designing software and signal processing electronics for X-ray spectrometry. He has been granted 7 US patents and is co-inventor of 5 more. He led the engineering team at Princeton Gamma-Tech (PGT), which received two R&D 100 awards in 1994 and 1996. A PGT gamma detector at a nuclear power plant in Sweden was the first outside the Soviet Union to recognize the Chernobyl reactor accident.
This presentation is based on the writings of Jack Devanney, including his new book “How We Can Make Nuclear Cheap Again” and various posts from his Substack blog, including The Case for 2mSv/day v2.0.
We hope you are able to join us for this presentation that promises to be a fascinating romp through science and history!
Radiation protection standards are based on the LNT (Linear No-Threshold) assumption. In August 2025, the book “The LNT Report” is being released. “For decades, the notion that any amount of nuclear radiation is hazardous to human health has been perpetuated by flawed science, ideological agendas, and misinformation. The LNT Report reveals the shocking truth behind this myth, exposing the bad faith, muddled thinking, and prejudice that have fueled unnecessary fears about nuclear power.” https://carusbooks.com/product/the-lnt-report
The presentation went well. A prof from U of Michigan was especially engaged, taking notes and asked for more material after. Here is what I emailed to the U of Michigan prof:
Here is a link to the slide deck Rick Mott used in the presentation.
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZoyGm5ZNWWcNNy6tF7EoKweLk57VRb5q8KV
Jack Devanney’s substack https://jackdevanney.substack.com/
Fascinating video on radiation quackery over 100 years ago by great science
communicator Kyle Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIoIn6iDZgYJack
Devanney’s book “How We Can Make Nuclear Cheap Again” https://www.amazon.ca/How-Make-Nuclear-Cheap-Again/dp/B0F32KLXRJ
The book “The LNT Report” is scheduled for publication this August. If you would like an advanced pdf e-version of this book, let me know, it would involve signing a simple NDA and providing feedback to the author. https://carusbooks.com/product/the-lnt-report
A link to Jack Devanney’s 50MB pdf file for the book (over 400 pages) he does several updates to “Why Nuclear Power has been a Flop at Solving the Gordian Knot of Electricity Poverty and Global Warming” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7HX38ZF0oIsTe52OLAFCUrd5XwRUfPo/view?usp=sharing