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That map up thread showing various CPM’s (counts per minute) for radiation activity, is way heckuva concerning. The readings of 250,375,529 are not dangerous by any means but are way higher than ambient and indicate something is moving thru the area, maybe dropping particles/pieces of some sort. I’d want to know if the readings are constant or momentary. These numbers are in the same range I was reading at my place after the Big Fukushima.

Remember the Mexicans who stole the source from a stored X-ray machine, back in the 80’s, thot they had a nice piece of stainless steel but opened the lid and spilled Cobalt 60 pellets all over their “hood? Killed a few of them. The scrap dealer sold it to a rebar factory and “hot” rebar showed up all over the southwest.

Then Cobalt Blue glass was mentioned above. The reason it’s no longer made commercially is the cobalt that gives the color radiates at a level that makes the regulators nervous. I’ve been collecting blue glass for nearly half a century, starting before the rules, and the whole wall reads a little above ambient: not a problem but detectable.

Then remember that when the USSR broke up the Ukes agreed to give up their Nuke weapons in exchange for a US promise of protection. But they still have Chernynobel which the Russians promised to take care of since they made the mess. And the Ukes actually have one of the largest nuke power plant complexes on the planet. So there are lots of possible sources for loose radioactive material to be moving around.