Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Basic Primer on Radiation, Measurement, and Figuring Out What Type of Radiation

This is an awesome video.    I thought I knew a thing or two, and then I found out thats about all I knew, LOL.

This video can double or triple your knowledge in just minutes.    Check it out!


Here is a quick video on testing food. The guy kind of freaks be out, but whatever, he went through a lot of effort to make something understandable to us. Truth benefits the recipient. For the pronukers, lies benefit the giver, except when they are busted dead to rights in a lie. And thats what I do, exposing truth, lie spotting. Debunking. And putting the complex into an easy to grasp format. nukepro out.
Posted by Stock at 4:25 PM

4 comments:

  1. boMarch 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM

    Thanks for this great video.
    Great walk through comparison of inspectors geigers and scintillators.

    And finally some eureka on bequerels, that is the hardest one to grasp for me.

    40 bq/kg - that means 40 atoms decaying per second. Hard to visualize that, but is there any chart that connects bequerels to either CPMs or sieverts?

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    1. StockMarch 27, 2014 at 1:20 PM

      Watch the second video, you will then understand What a CPM is in relation to a Bq. Simply when a decay hit a Geiger Mueller tube or pancake, it creates a "click".
      But Geigers are different shape and sizes and have varying ability to detect radiation (thats called efficiency). A bigger pancake type will "catch" more clicks than a smaller tube.

      Also some are just better quality...they will catch more, even of lower energy decays. Now watch the video of the food sample ...you can see how your geiger would only be catching a portion of the radiation. And some 50% that hits your geiger wouldn't even cause a click.

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  2. boMarch 28, 2014 at 11:36 PM

    Thank you so much stock! So the way you measure bequerels would be :

    1.Set your geiger to counts per second ( CPS)
    2.Measure the weight of food item ( how many kg)
    3. Divide CPS by kg ?

    Or is that an over simplification ?

    The school ground dirt in my hometown in Japan measured 75bq/kg last august for cesium.
    I'm still trying to understand what that means.

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    1. boMarch 30, 2014 at 3:57 AM

      Amazing clarity.
      Or I should say - as close to clarity as I have ever gotten.
      I'm totally floored for the detailed explanation. Thank you for your help. Will recommend this page to anybody with these questions - not many around me at the moment, but - unfortunately - I'm sure there will be many, very soon. :(

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