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300 mR/hr is the expected year exposure.

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300 mR/hr is the expected year exposure.

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EXCEPT NICK, YOU GOT IT WRONG.

Your expected YEARLY exposure is not 300 mR "per hour", it's 300 mRem... total.

So, at roughly 20000 cpm, assuming a newer 2" dia standard Geiger counter with a conversion rate of

3000 cpm = 1 mR/hour (rems= rads, approximately)

Then in one year you would be getting almost 200 times your normal background rate. Or, putting it another way, you would be getting a year's worth of radiation in less than two days.

You see, I have used Geiger counters... I know what the "normal" background rate is, and what it sounds like. That counter singing away?

NOT normal. More in the realm of "Run like hell"

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After a rain, wipe down a 3 square meter area with a cloth or paper towel. If you get a positive result on the geiger counter from the cloth, triple wrap it in plastic, note the location and the the date and time and mail to Fairewinds who then will test the cloths and map the distribution of radioactive rainout.

The mailing address for the wipe-down cloths is:
Fairewinds Associates Inc
376 Appletree Point Rd
Burlington, VT 05408-2481, USA

You can also contact Fairewinds by phone: (802) 865-9955 or email:
contact@fairewinds.com if you have questions.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
When you have widespread deposition, it's a little hard not to breathe it in or ingest it. It gets in the soil, in the groundwater, in the plants. You drink, you eat, and dirt gets kicked up by the wind and your breathe in some dust.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Give up on this, Nick, it's crazy hot.

Also, this guy followed the standard protocol (one square meter) for detecting deposited radionuclides, so I hope this guy sends his paper towel to Arnie Gunderson for detailed analysis.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Arnie is a nuclear engineer and was a nuclear power executive. I have posted his videos before. He's not an alarmist by any stretch, but he's concerned enough to set up a citizen's monitoring program, because sure as hell the governments of USA and Canada aren't doing anything!

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