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One in three Americans lives within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant ( MSNBC ) that routinely releases radioactive poisons ( EPA ) into the environment, but there are no public health alerts when these invisible poisons are released into our air and water.
Utility companies are only required to make annual reports on their averaged quarterly emissions, concealing dangerous public exposure spikes. The EPA provides online near-real-time data, but only one hundred monitors are scantily spread around the U.S. and many are not recording nuclear plant emissions. To take up the slack, hundreds of citizens upload real-time radiation readings across our country. We need a multi-agency, online, real-time, national monitoring system to 'connect the dots' for public heal