Monitoring in San Francisco
Posted on 03/15/2011 8:13:35 AM PDT by SE Mom
Great find!
The workers are very brave.
You forgot the link.
Remember that the levels can go a good bit higher than “normal” and be considered quite safe. Normal is a relatively low number agreed upon by various nuclear groups across the world- but it’s not related to what’s “safe”.
National television has interviewed relatives of the workers, who the plant operators insist on keeping anonymous, with one woman saying her father had accepted his fate ‘like a death sentence’.
A woman said her husband continued to work while fully aware he was being bombarded with radiation. He sent her an email saying: ‘Please continue to live well, I cannot be home for a while.’ The workers are known as the Fukushima Fifty because they rotate into contaminated areas in teams of that number.
That’s certainly how one would read it, though it could just be a statement of policy/procedure.
However, it is theoretically possible some Japanese passengers had substantial exposure if they were close to Fukushima. The trace particulates they are picking up at the airport are in way too low a range to generate any immediate, visible symptoms, so a serious exposure, if any, would have to have happened at or near Fukushima, either a very hot local plume or an unshielded gamma event. Without more knowledge of their exact travel pattern, it’s hard to know.
Also keep in mind some symptoms of stress greatly resemble some stages of serious exposure (nausea, lightheadedness, etc.), and airport security would have to give any such complaints a worst case presumption, by design.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/live-radiation-monitoring-from-west-la
Link for S. Cal. radiation monitor feed...
Your flippant jingoism is repugnant. You are disgusting. Worse yet, you are not even alone in it on this thread! Take your “Jap”-bashing elsewhere!
Just 3? Geez. :-)
I'm In the same line of work for data DR. You "what if" until you get to the point of "if x ever happens just gimme a beer and let me kiss my butt goodbye"
What is it reading? 34 what?
So sad...
Wow. So they knew early on the severity of the situation ?
I tried to look up the manufacturer
Gamma Sensitivity
3340 CPM/mR/hr referenced to Cs-137. Smallest detectable level for I-125 is .02 µCi at contact. Timer can set 1 minute sampling periods from 1 to 10 minutes.
Operating Range
mR/hr - .001 (1µR) to 100 mR/hr CPM - 0 to 350,000
µSv/hr - .01 to 1000 CPS - 0 to 5000
Total/ Timer - 1 to 9,999,000 counts
Accuracy
mR/hr ±10% typical (NIST), ±15% max - 0 to 100
µSv/hr ±10% typical (NIST), ±15% max - 01 - 1000
CPM ±10% typical (NIST), ±15% max - 0 to 350,000
(Referenced to Cs-137)
Of course, I’m lost as to what that means.
anyone?
http://seintl.com/products/inspector%2B.html
Accurate reporting shall dribble out. Including how as this post indicates, the Japanese simply did not do a good job of making their nuclear power plants as safe as they could have been. Even days back we read about how their systems keep the holding trays for spent fuel to high for easy access in case of reactor problems. Plus it is now coming out how they have not performed many of the upgrades on their systems that US facilities are required to do.
Monitoring in San Francisco
You’re sweet, thanks.
I’d guess it reads in either one.
Are you still on the coast? Be careful.
Sad. But I thought this wasn't dangerous?
No - I’m in Texas now.
Had to bail out of California, but it will always be my home state. I lived there since I was 2, so it’s hard to give it up. Used to be a great place.
I found a website with the Channel 5 report on that radiation counter
http://www.enviroreporter.com/
It’s on the right side - he said if it gets into the 100’s there will be reason for concern.
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