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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.
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4 comments:

  1. Ian GoddardMay 28, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    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. Ms. XMay 29, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    Thanks, The error has been corrected

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  3. AnonymousMay 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM

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

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  4. Ms. XMay 30, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    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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