The role of radiative corrections in low-energy nuclear physics is beginning to receive more scrutiny. We examine the impact of these corrections for the deuteron charge form factor and the radiative capture process $np\to d\gamma$ through the velocity renormalization group. In both cases, we find percent-level shifts in the relevant observables after evolving the subtraction velocity to the typical velocity of nucleons in the bound state. This suggests that electromagnetic corrections constitute a non-negligible source of uncertainty in existing few-body calculations.

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• Big bang nucleosynthesis
• Effective field theory
• Nuclear structure & decays
• Nucleon-nucleon interactions
• Radiative capture
• Renormalization group