Approximately How Much Radiation Did He Get and What Radioactive Material Was Glowing in the Hills of Nevada in 1956?

Earlier on another thread I replied to David's post concerning morbidity and mortality rates including the story of my husband playing with the glowing/fluorescing dirt which you can read below.

What we'd like to know from the BRAWM team is their best estimate of his exposure since in retrospect, the side effects including vomiting(not mentioned in the post since he read it later and then added that to the symptoms) right about the time the blisters/rash formed from contact with the glowing dirt he kicked up(he's not sure if it wasn't motion sickness since he was only 6 years old at the time although he's not motion sickness prone having sailed with the US Navy as helmsman through many violent storms.) Also, it wasn't just his clothes his father left by the side of the road, but his new cowboy boots and socks that his Grandma gave him from her clothing, saddle and tack store necessitating a purchase of new shoes at the next town they made it to (he says he really cried about that not to mention the ribbing from his siblings that if the blisters and rash got any worse 'it' would fall off and he'd have to wear a dress! Kids can be so mean!)

We both think that for the hills and dirt to glow as they did and for it to be visible as they drove at night to avoid the desert heat is that perhaps the glowing is largely Uranium based since the glow had the same effect as that on watch dials.

Thanks!

Who's Next? Morbidity and Mortality rates
Submitted by HotCaviar (not verified) on Sat, 2011-05-14 05:23.
To David who wrote the below:

We're all living in it and have as a species been living in the aftermath of the release of nuclear material since 1945. How much of a 'BLACKOUT' in terms of making the memory of nuclear history almost non-existent in the consciousness of the public has been going on? Does anyone reading here remember back in the 1950's when Spenger's fish market and others in the Bay Area advertised 'Rad Free Fish' complete with a geiger counter wielding fishmonger and maps showing where in the ocean the fish came from?

What can we do in the meantime? Me and my husband live in a small apartment in Reno, NV and recently found out that our air conditioning unit has a direct feed of minimally filtered air from outside which pretty much eliminates any efficacy of keeping our windows closed since the crisis began with Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant!

My husband has illustrated to me that exposure to nuclear materials and the chance of disease really is a crap shoot. Here's one of his examples: in 1956 his family decided to take a driving trip from California, through Nevada and on to Texas to visit relatives. His father is a WWII Vet and served together with a demolition team set to destroy 'heavy water pipes' so he knew certain important things about exposure and decontamination procedures. Well, somewhere driving about 60 miles from the Nevada test site in Mercury, NV they all noticed the hills glowed (his father said it was because of the nuclear tests) and at one point they stopped by the side of the road so my husband and his siblings could pee. Needless to say, at age 6 my husband kicked some of the dirt and noticed it glowed, continued kicking it up since it fascinated him and got it all over himself. Alarmed, his father grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt and had him undress immediately, discarded the clothes and poured a container of some of their water supply provisioned for the trip all over him and said "Son, you might end up not being able to have children, get very sick or (being the joker he is) it might fall off!" They later drove to one of the hospitals in NV since within a few hours he itched all over and had really small blisters mostly over the lower half of his body including his genitals which was a pretty difficult thing to deal with for a 6 year old kid. The Dr. at that hospital actually had 2 different types of geiger counters and said that the type of exposure was 'low' and allayed the family's fears. The itching from the exposure to the glowing dirt persisted for a few weeks before subsiding.

Years later, husband found out that he had very low sperm count and was only able to have one child, a girl from a previous marriage. When he worked in a lab an old timer scientist who had a chart from Los Alamos was able to show that since he messed with the glowing dirt 60 miles away from the test site that it was still considered in the low range of exposure but even the symptoms were enough to show that more than likely the low sperm count could be correlated with the exposure since his health and the rest of the family were otherwise good to excellent.

Husband was exposed to radioactive materials through work and military too. At one point he allowed some students majoring in engineering to geiger his house to help them with some report/study and one of them noted that readings in the sink and other parts of the house seemed to show enough elevation to think there was a presence of Plutonium, Uranium and other isotopes. This was over 20 years ago and, since he sees a Dr. a couple of times per year so far so good, nothing bad, no cancer ever! We both hope he never gets cancer because of all the exposure and, alot of his scientist friends have said that since everybody's different he might be one of the rare ones that has a higher tolerance to exposure and hopefully the same will be true for me too.

Meantime, we'll just do what I've mentioned before as far as 'self checking' and minimizing consumption of dairy products and other higher concentrators of nuclear material, what will you be doing?

~Off my menu: All Seafoods because the oceans really are a military and industrial sewer! Yes, I will miss Anchovies on my pizza, fishsticks, red snapper, tuna (even 'chicken of the sea' is no longer 'worthy,'crab, fake crab (made with Pollock, an ocean fish), clam chowder, Nori Seaweed,Caviar etc... See: http://pstuph.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/can-ocean-currents-transport-radi...

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/3486
BRAWM Info., Common Sense, Medical Awareness and Staying Informed...

-------David Wrote:

Morbidity and Mortality rates

Submitted by David (not verified) on Fri, 2011-05-13 23:49.

12-15 years for the cancers to start showing up. Based on Chernobyl rates worldwide. They will be the lucky ones. The increased morbidity rates of multiple debilitating illnesses, the suffering of slow deaths. The genomic anomalies in the ensuing generations creating not only increased cancers but 'sickly' generations with each generation increasing mortality/morbidity rates. http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/chernob_report2011webippnw.pdf
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
And now they seek to blind side us through a MEDIA BLACK OUT so we won't even know when the best time to stay inside is, other than the obvious 'stay out of the rain!' 150 pCi of Iodine-131 here in Jacksonville Florida in rainwater (3pCi=FDA 'acceptable limit' in drinking water) It's still raining radioactive fallout and the industry has managed a world wide media black out stopping all the private prediction services too!

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