Submitted by Katherine O'Sullivan, Inwood Preservation Commenting as an individual
ICRP should recommend contaminated land not be used for agriculture.
ICRP should recommend that humans (particularly women of childbearing years and children) depart land contaminated by nuclear disasters.
ICRP should abandon encouraging broad public acceptance and use of any process that tries to convince people they can live in radioactive contamination, such as the “co-expertise processes” ICRP’s draft supports. Even if all processes are non-coercive and transparent, they may still fail to meet ICRP exposure recommendations; be abandoned over time due to cost; or abandoned due to the arduous nature of the constant vigilance necessary to maintain them.
ICRP should recommend food contaminated with man-made radionuclides not be consumed by any living creature; and that import and export of contaminated food occur only for research purposes.
ICRP should abandon optimization and justification principles, on which the “co-expertise process” relies, because these principles do not comply with the right to health per the United Nations Human Rights Council determination.