Loiselle explains that the government is getting away from measuring exactly how much radiation it will allow in any given product. Instead, it is making more general target assessments based on risk and is considering setting an allowable dose standard. Many industry members advocate a standard that would allow for the release of all metal estimated to give off doses of radiation at 10 to 15 millirems per year. We've gone too far toward making it zero. That's really not fair to the industry.
Nothing is zero.
Pick a number, and you'll have a lot of friends here. We'd rather be regulated at 10 millirems or thereabouts. As Loiselle explains it, the public has no idea what doses it encounters in household products and car parts because the current release standards for those who get special permits are set so close to zero that the radiation is not measurable. In a sense, that means a looser or a less stringent standard. Not all industry people agree with that.