As kids in the 1950s we used to take a Geiger counter up into the hill
to prospect for uranium. All we would find was granite which does emit
some radioactivity.
How to build your own radiation monitoring station and put it online:
http://radiation-watch-san-mateo-coast.com/DIY/index.html
After the Fukushima incident Lawrence Labs Berkeley was posting the
daily cesium count taking on their roof online. After it started
climbing high it was taken offline. Figure the guvmint didn't want the
sheeple alarmed as they might stop grazing (consuming).
On 02/23/2014 04:50 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
Not to dash your hopes or anything, but one of the limitations about
any kind of radiation monitoring is whether anyone in a given country
is *allowed* to perform any private testing.
For example, when I lived in Santa Fe a big stink was raised when
residents of Los Alamos, home of the US National Laboratories (and one
of the dirtiest nuclear sites ever) wanted to have private testing
done of some of the neighborhoods bordering on the sites of the
earliest reactors there. They wanted this after noticing that in some
of these neighborhoods no one could find a household in which someone
had *not* had cancer. The statistics were just off the chart, and
naturally the residents suspected radiation leaking into the soil and
ground water.
But it turns out that no one was *allowed* to measure these things,
because in the US the only agency that *is* allowed to monitor
radiation levels is the Atomic Energy Commission. This is a leftover
law from the Cold War, but it is still in effect, so any attempt to
perform private testing is a violation of Federal law punishable by
many years in prison.
This may have changed in the years since, and I hope it has, but it
was definitely true and all over the New Mexico headlines at the time.
Another factor in the New Mexico scenario is that one in every four
jobs in NM is provided by the US government, and no one was about to
"bite the hand that feeds" by forcing them to do their own extensive
studies and possibly leave themselves open to lawsuits and expensive
clean-ups.
It was similar to the lax (read, almost non-existent) drunk driving
laws in the state. It has one of the highest incidences of
alcohol-related accidents and deaths in the nation, but every year the
Legislature fails to pass any bills trying to curb drunk driving. Why?
I got to see why first-hand, because one of my hangouts in Santa Fe
was a restaurant/bar next to the State Capitol, where I got to see the
legislators drop by after a "hard day at work" and down 4-5 drinks
before driving home. Local cops knew the story, and knew why no one
would pass laws to make their lives easier and stop the deaths -- the
legislators themselves were among the biggest offenders.
You can't rely on the people who benefit from dirty chicken coops to
guard the chicken coops...
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*From:* merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:34 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
Certainly any news and media "output" has to be taken with a grain of
salt especially if a journalist want us to believe they know what is
in the head and mind of an politician and being on a location for a
few minute knows it "all".
VIde“an oceanographer's in-joke” maximum wave heights of the tsunami
generated by the Japan earthquake taken for showing radiation
spreading across the ocean from Japan:
Since lived there at the time and many years later in the surrounding
area have to say models are one thing (easily proven wrong in one area
of the model, with no data in other areas, etc.), actual widespread
and frequent monitoring, not just some the dose rate (which can be a
combination of so many variables), but specific for concentrations of
various isotopes (at least I-131 and Cs-134 for evidence of
recriticalities after 2011), and definitely Cs-137, Co-60 and Sr-90;
perhaps also Pu-139/240 too, in water, in sediment, in plankton, in
Tuna, etc., at least weekly and all over the Pacific and around should
be and has been utmost importance
http://cerea.enpc.fr/en/fukushima.html
That's a minimum to make statements.Unfortunately some government
barely monitors deposition, has made no attempts to identify the
hotspots, and thus that far more monitoring is needed not only by
private organization and initiative(here ref .to Asian area).
