The US EPA expects to publish a draft document that would change its long-standing advice to state and local governments about how to limit long-term exposure to radiation after a reactor accident or a “dirty bomb” attack http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/science/earth/new-rules-for-us-nuclear-disaster-response.html?ref=us The E.P.A. document, called Protective Action Guidelines, and the report prepared for the Department of Homeland Security would allow a sharp increase in the amount of radioactive contamination allowed in food and water, and the allowable doses from irradiation by radioactive particles that would be deposited in an accident. The E.P.A. was “trying to bury the bad stuff in footnote references to a whole series of other documents.” “The document is admitting that nuclear power is a dangerous industry,”