Category Archives: Radiation

“The Better to Cook You, My Dear.” The FCC, Mobile Phone Industry Ally, Reclassifies Body Part.

Posted on June 6, 2013 by melissalevine

Did you know that the FCC now considers your outer ear to be an extremity? On June 4, 2013, the FCC issued a ruling classifying the outer ear (referred to as “pinna”) where people place their mobile (cell and cordless) … Continue reading →

Posted in Acoustic Neuromas, Cordless Phones, Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?, FCC RF Safety Standards Reviewed, Health Effects, Health Impact, Science, Radiation | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Last Night’s Costa Mesa CPUC Hearing on San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stations Units 2 and 3

Posted on February 22, 2013 by melissalevine

Last night I attended a CPUC Public Participation Hearing in Costa Mesa regarding San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant which has been off line for the past year because of defective steam generators.  It is a rare opportunity to have a … Continue reading →

Posted in Andy Shrader, Arnie Gunderson, CPUC Commisioner Mike Florio, Defective Steam Tubes, general, Mindy Spatt, Paul Koretz, Radiation, S.O.N.G.S, San Onofre, San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, Southern California Edison, TURN | 2 Comments

Free at Last: CPUC Approves Smart Meter Opt Out for SCE and SDG&E; Dr. Neil Cherry: RF’s Effect on Neurotransmitters; Public Space Increasingly Irradiated

Posted on April 19, 2012 by melissalevine

Good News.  🙂 Today the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)  approved a smart meter opt out option for  both Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric customers.  Please share this information with friends and neighbors. From the SCE … Continue reading →

Posted in "Opt Out" Issues, Analog Meter, CPUC/Complaints, Health Impact, Science, Radiation, Smart Meters, What Edison Says and doesn't Say, Wireless Ubiquitous | 2 Comments

Faster than a Speeding Bullet, More Powerful than a Locomotive, Able to Leap Tall Buildings in a Single “Radioactive” Bound: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane–It’s Wi-Fi 5G!

Posted on February 14, 2012 by melissalevine

The website 5GWiFi, set up by Irvine-based Broadcom, offers a “primer” on the new IEEE 802.11 ac or “5G” Wi Fi chip.  Scroll down to the “technical details” to read about the RF spectrum and “beamforming.”  Note: Be prepared when … Continue reading →

Posted in Radiation, Shielding, Wi Fi | 1 Comment

Chair of IARC Working Group: Designation of RF as a class 2B Carcinogen has “Broad Applicability” (which means it includes Smart Meters)

Posted on January 31, 2012 by melissalevine

“The designation of group 2b is radio frequency electromagnetic fields–that is unspecified as to source so the group 2b classification would have broad applicability to sources with this type of emissions”–-Jonathan Samet, MD, Chairman of the Working Group of 31 … Continue reading →

Posted in Class 2b Possible Carcinogen, Health Impact, Science, Radiation, Smart Meters | 6 Comments

E-Mail Update: CPUC Meeting, Santa Cruz County Health Report, Inverse Square Law

Posted on January 29, 2012 by melissalevine

Three Items: Important CPUC Meeting this Wednesday: Please Write to Commissioners; 2. Physicians’ Group Recommends Moratorium on Smart Meters; 3. Santa Cruz Health Department Report on Smart Meters. 1. CPUC Meeting This Wednesday, February 1, 2012,  the CPUC will be … Continue reading →

Posted in "Opt Out" Issues, Analog Meter, CPUC/Complaints, Health Impact, Science, News/Updates, Radiation, Smart Meters | 2 Comments

“Before SimpleLink Tai’s Bike Rides Lacked Information” (But at Least He Still Had a Brain)

Posted on January 25, 2012 by melissalevine

The government and industry are not just irradiating the public via Smart Meters, but they are also rolling out “smart” appliances,” which will each contain within them a radiation emitting RF transmitter.  You will, if you are unaware, be bringing … Continue reading →

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Dr. Dan Harper Discusses Health Impact of Electromagnetic Fields

Posted on December 20, 2011 by melissalevine

Dr. Harper Quote:  “We are becoming a generation that’s got pre-senile dementia being cared for by a younger generation that’s going to be plagued by brain cancer.”

Posted in Cell Phones, Field Tests/RF Analyzer, Health Impact, Science, Radiation | Leave a comment

Health Effects From Smart Meters? Utility Industry Gets a Free Pass from the FCC

Posted on December 18, 2011 by melissalevine

The many letters submitted in response to last January’s (2011) flawed CCST report on “smart” meters are a good place to look if one wants to hear different perspectives regarding the health effects from “smart” meters. However, one soon sees, … Continue reading →

Posted in Edison (SCE), FCC Standards, Radiation, How This Happened, History, Radiation, Southern California Edison, What Edison Says and doesn't Say | Leave a comment

Radiation Exposure from a Smart Meter is 100 times Higher than from a Cell Phone

Posted on December 10, 2011 by melissalevine

This interview (see below) with Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear scientist from UC Santa Cruz, discusses how last January’s CCST report which was meant to be an “independent science based report” on “smart” meters  instead  “just reproduced claims” from the utility … Continue reading →

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A Double Edged Sword: Radiation In Your Doctor’s Hands? Good. In Your Smart Meter? Dubious

Posted on December 4, 2011 by melissalevine

It seems, at first blush, a little odd that a story about the therapeutic benefits of electromagnetic radiation (in Microwave News this week) instead of reassuring people about low level radiation being safe (as utility companies say) actually confirms worries … Continue reading →

Posted in Health Impact, Science, Radiation | 2 Comments