Haunting Pics from near FK

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2011-08-08 11:55

Posted by BC

http://blog.safecast.org/2011/08/drive-report-august-7/

Very much worth read and look. If you can, drop these guys a buck or twenty, they are good folks doing good work.

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Safecast Drive Report: Japan Radiation Level Sampling / Mappin

Submitted by Gardening Gal (not verified) on Tue, 2011-08-09 01:21.

Quote from Drive Diary:

"Our first stop was Nihonmatsu which is not too far from Koriyama to meet up with some volunteers in the area and hand out a few new sensors for them to take measurements with. We met at restaurant and of course started measuring things the moment we set foot in the parking lot. Levels were noticeably higher than we’d seen just a few hours prior in Tokyo.
Over 300 CPM air contamination here

Close to 3000 CPM surface contamination

Another bit worth noting here in case you haven’t been following along with the work Safecast has been doing so far, surface contamination is much higher than air contamination. There are two main reasons for this – “Fallout” literally means this radioactive crap fell out of the sky and found it’s new home on the ground, and much of contents of said crap are beta emitters. Beta radiation is lower energy than gamma so you need to get close to it to measure it – which in this case is the ground. If you only measure the air you miss the betas all together. Anyway. Surface is higher than air, and around 3000 CPM on the ground in the parking lot here is 10X the air levels."

This quote pretty much says it all...it is all about the soil contamination now...both in Japan & on the West Coast of the USA. We need to know what our "ground levels" are now...not just air levels.

great link

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-08-08 14:57.

thank you BC for posting this.