Bottom line - get a Geiger or you have no ability to assess your risk. And there are occasional high risks.
San Francisco, Olympia Washington, and Richland Washington are under high ALARM today.
San Francisco is around 300 CPM (Clicks per Minute), and Richland WA is over 500 CPM!
Honolulu is at 96 CPM as Flotsam from Fukushima is detected in a 2 mile stretch of debris, see story here
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2013/11/possibly-radioactive-japanese-trash.html
Honolulu is at ALERT Conditions today
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
Here is the source website for the Rad Charts above
http://www.netc.com/
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what is the best geiger counter to buy? can anyone suggest which monitors the correct isotopes etc for us who are non-science majors?
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DeleteYep, pretty frustrating. People ahve no idea how bad this is going to be. I think they think I'm some sort of nothing or a doom and gloom merchant :( Sending love to you.
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DeleteDoes it really matter? There is Nothing that can be done about it now... It's too late for humanity.... The Idiots won!
ReplyDeleteIts not over yet, and there are some positive trends in terms of plant closures, but also negative trends in terms of Gov denial and media blackout. So yes it does matter.
DeleteInteresting map... The two "A's" on the West coast, when clicked on, are not for Washington or California, they are both for Hawaii... HAHAHA can't even get the map right, so that really makes one wonder about the info in the article that SAYS it is the West Coast...
ReplyDeleteI see, when the trolls show up, that must mean one is hitting close to the mark. The 2 A are indeed Washington and California.
DeleteThere is an additional screen cap which shows Hawaii, but obviously the troll never clicked on the A's
Well there was no abnormal levels of Radiation near Portland .Oregon . I take readings every day and all of them are normal . I also check with Radiation network daily it takes readings all over North America and all is normal .
ReplyDeleteIf Richland, Wa has high radiation readings it's probably associated with Hanford, a nuclear waste site.
ReplyDeleteHigh radiation readings can come from anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI bet you didn't know eating a banana will increase your potassium levels.
Which by the way is radioactive.
There are 2 kinds of radiation, man made and background.
Look into it before you start a mass panic.
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DeleteA couple of comments, www.netc.com does not tell you whether the levels are bad, they use average CPM's and then base the alerts on whether the CPM's are rising, elevated or at the top of the deviation, which set's an alert. I follow netc and #1, since fuku the averages have gone up 35%. #2, in the last two weeks, the averages have gone up 20%. Where is the radiation coming from? Ison debris? The Sun? Fuku? Also, the radiationnetwork site is owned by whom? I would not trust it. This is not over yet people are more worried about watching football and shopping for xmas. OBLIVIOUS to this ELE!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the input. I have also noticed radiation network showing "normal" when my own geiger was showing elevated, and even when EPA radnet was showing skyhigh. So its odd for sure.
DeleteI to have been wary of netc's postings. The ones over on Japan are a JOKE! Many of the brand new sites (esp in Oregon) are way too low...maybe lacking sensitivity.
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