New Air Sampling Data?

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2011-05-09 14:48

I wanted to find out if the BRAWM team could update us on when new air sampling data would be available for review. Thank you in advance for your assistance!

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Just posted our two new

Submitted by bandstra on Mon, 2011-05-09 21:42.

Just posted our two new measurements.

5/9 (9:40pm):Air measurements were updated with two recent measurements. Only I-131 and Cs-137 were detected in the most recent measurement, at levels that are about 100 to 1000 times lower than their peak measurements in March. Air sampling will continue at a frequency of about three days until we can no longer detect I-131 and Cs-137 in a practical amount of time.

Mark [BRAWM Team Member]

Thank You!

Submitted by T.O. Mom (not verified) on Tue, 2011-05-10 01:16.

Thank you for the update!

Thank you very much for

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-05-09 22:36.

Thank you very much for posting this new data!

Thank you so much!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-05-09 22:00.

Thank you so much!

Elaborate

Submitted by Sth (not verified) on Mon, 2011-05-09 21:53.

You can detect something 1000 times less than at peak at what point will it be undetectable 4000 times 10000times less please elaborate if u could.Ty for continuing tests too.

It depends on the isotope

Submitted by bandstra on Mon, 2011-05-09 22:50.

It depends on the isotope and the measurement. If you look at our plots of the air measurement data, such as this plot of I-131 levels, the red line tells you the levels we can reach with our current testing. The line can move up and down (and it has during the last two months) depending on how long we collect and test each sample. It's a statistical limit.

So for I-131, our most recent measurement detects it at 7.2E-9, which is about 600 times lower than its peak of 4.3E-6 on 3/23-24.

Does that make sense?

Mark [BRAWM Team Member]

Yes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-05-09 23:05.

Yes it does.Ty. although I am unclear as to let's say cesium 137at peak how many times lower u could detect that isotope before it's below your detectible level.

I was also wondering if

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-05-09 20:02.

I was also wondering if there was new data on air sampling...so...BUMP!

Thanks BRAWM!