A new unambiguous and conceptually improved renormalization method is formu
lated in nonrelativistic QED. Without introducing any artifical mass (or en
ergy) counter-terms in the Hamiltonian, the terms stemming from the experim
entally unobservable free-electron-vacuum-field interaction are directly id
entified and completely removed from the corresponding equations of motion
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