Could Dr. Chivers put our California findings in proportion with current findings of I131 &cesium in Germany?

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2011-03-31 08:06

I found the current air concentration findings in Germany:

http://www.bfs.de/de/ion/imis/spurenmessungen.html

Could Dr. Chivers please put our California findings in proportion to the findings in Germany? Are the California findings 10 000 or 100 000 times more than the concentration measured in Germany of Iodine 131 and Caesium?

Thank you.

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I warn that making

Submitted by dchivers on Thu, 2011-03-31 08:21.

I warn that making comparisons to other studies and sensors may not be comparable but lets try it anyway. If I do a cursory look at the first set of numbers I get a ballpark ~0.002 Bq/cubic meter Air for I-131 when they began sensing the effects (last three measurements). This would be a comparable time period to ours relative to the event. We are getting something like 0.000002 Bq/L, which if I convert to Bq/cubic meter is 0.002 Bq/cubic meter. These are equal levels. Once again, I caution that a full evaluation of the location, method, and time between events would have to be analyzed to truly compare the readings.