St-Louis rain with possible neptunium239

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2011-10-06 09:19

Hello,
I have recently found a website that announced the possibility of neptunium239 in St-Louis, Missouri. Could the BRAWM team verify his finding? That person posted the raw data on his website:
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2011/09/raw-data-of-saint-louis-nep...

Thank you for all your effort.

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I give that website zero

Submitted by BC (not verified) on Thu, 2011-10-06 10:20.

I give that website zero credibility.

Think about this - he says he is seeing Neptunium-239, and has a graph showing decay paterns, etc. How in the hell could he be seeing a very low-volatility material in high amounts without finding a whole bunch of the high volatility stuff (ie, cesium-134/137, strontium-90, etc). If there was enough fallout in that rain for there to be even the tiniest amount of Pu/U/Am/Np then one would expect to see an abundance of the lighter elements, certainly enough so that they would overwhelm the decay patterns
that he thinks he sees.

I would like to see what Mark and the other team members make of his measurements, but in the meantime, I'm going with "hell no" all on my own.

Hi, I was wondering if it is

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2011-10-06 16:16.

Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to determine what are the causes for the reading he was getting from the rain sample?

Thank you