gamma energy range 8 pink graph on radnet- what particles does that represent as it has spiked the last 3 days

Thank you CJ for your information. I believe you are correct. My physics ain't too bad as I worked for INEL (as a biologist) and taught Physics at the High School level for years. I'm not a nuclear physicist (wish I had been) but the lower KeV values indicate the more dangerous readings (indicate particle presence). We are mostly interested in the mutagenic energy levels. The "cooking" energies are the "right now damage" and they are indicated in the upper bands. Each form of radioactive decay has its own signature but it isn't in our government's interest to have half baked scientists running around screaming the sky is falling. Also, the damage that nuclear exposure in "mutagenic" range is not something that can be quantified. One person gets cancer and another doesn't. This is true with high dose exposure as well as chronic low dose exposure. We know that particle uptake by the body is a serious threat as it locally exposes cells to DNA damage and sooner or later, that damage will be replicated and poof, cancer. As you will see, this environmental release will bump up the mortality levels a little bit in the wind shadow. Reactor #3 had plutonium and will be an issue for Japan. Other releases will be significant but will barely register worldwide. Look at Chernoble(sp) and project Seahorse in Alaska for long term morbidity studies. Yes, the government will act as it does in any major catastrophitic event "control, contain, continue." Not a bad plan if it ain't you in harm's way. Bruce White, Ketchikan, AK PS: anyone willing to clean up and/or correct what I've said?

The lack of information / explanation is so TOTAL, and the public interest and relevancy so complete, that I CANNOT BELIEVE this is accidental. I have NEVER gone in for conspiracy theories... But these are strange days we are living in, and getting stranger.

It's funny -- every ten minutes I'm bombarded with a Mesothelioma commercial, for a disease that is certainly worrying, but affects only a fraction of the U.S. population. But there's hardly a WORD out there about Japan, much less U.S. reports of radiation, and NOTHING AT ALL about the health risks to us. And it's been that way for WEEKS. Unbelievable.

Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
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