I emailed University of Arizona.
Re: Testing for radioactive fallout in Japan?
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:58 AM
From:
"John Williams"
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The University is not doing the types of testing you mention. The US EPA has a monitoring site in Tucson, however. It's results may be seen on the following site:
http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data-map.html
According to the EPA:
"To-date, levels recorded at this monitor have been thousands of times below any conservative level of concern."
You will notice large daily peaks in the recorded gross beta particle activity. These are due to the exhalation of radon from the ground, as the temperature drops each evening. Tucson sits on deep layers of granitic sediments. The daily exhalation of radon from those sediments has being going on for millions of years.
John Williams
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> I know Berkley and a few other universities are monitoring radioactive isotope fallout from Japan in the air, rainwater, tapwater, milk, and food. Is UofA doing any kind of testing and where can the results be found?
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So should I keep emailing him to ask about another monitoring site? Any other groups? Any other professor that would be more interested or have more insight? Anyone else want to email this guy?
the person in Arizona does
the person in Arizona does not seem to be well informed. Scary.
Since I was not sure if you
Since I was not sure if you had seen this on the FAQ page, here is a link to an organization in Arizona that appears to have been monitoring radiation in the air and milk: http://www.azein.gov/azein/2011/Forms/AllItems.aspx. It looks like the most recent results posted were for air samples from April 8th.
I am aware of that already.
I am aware of that already. However we need more than just one really, and one willing to test other things.
Tucson is also slightly higher in elevation than Pheonix.
Do you know of any environmental groups monitoring the situation?