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Friday, May 27, 2011

5/27/11 9pm Drizzle Contains 9 Times Background Radiation

Had a quick light passing of drizzle over the house, just enough to barely dampen the roads. I took a sample from the hood of the truck using the standard paper towel method. The truck had not been driven in the last several hours, and was just sitting in our driveway. The sample returned approximately 0.09 mR/hr, or 9 times background radiation.

4 comments:

  1. Don't you mean 0.09 mR/hr?

    0.9 mR/hr would be 90x typical background, which is 0.01 mR/hr.

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  2. Thanks, The error has been corrected

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  3. hey, where can i get one of the geiger counters you use??

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  4. www.medcom.com, but they are on back order for months.
    It might be easier to get a RADOS RDS-80, try
    http://www.laurussystems.com/Crisis-in-Japan_Radiation-Instruments.htm

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