You remember my telling you yesterday that I eat oysters out of Willapa Bay, on the southern coast of Washington State?
I think it would be wise for me to get one of those hand-held portable dosimeters and check the oysters out before consumption. (I suspect the Feds are already doing that, but who really knows?)
Some of the dosimeters being sold on Ebay are like those I operated while working at the Trojan Nuclear Plant twenty years ago. My nephew wants one and we’ll probably get one.
If you are being serious about the meter, would recommend one in the future just because the current DC establishment has been hell bent on proliferating nuclear technology all over the planet. Iran has nuclear power plants. And they are at about 30 to 35 degrees north latitude. Then of course there is the possibility that Israel might have to resort to nuclear weapons in its upcoming war with Iran. And I believe the Israelis have some really big ones. Then of course, we have North Korea, Pakistan and the rest of the middle east pursuing nuclear power. So, more nuclear accidents and additional nuclear wars are as certain as the sun rising.
I have a radiation survey meter that I bought 25 years ago at a garage sale for $5.
Last year I sent it to www.KI4U.com to have it repaired and calibrated.
Took it to the grocery store.
Veggies and fruit = no reading.
Shelves of canned tuna = .05 rads/hr.
What does that mean?
I am not an alarmist about background radiation. However, I am concerned when extreme Greens rejoice in the “death lottery” and the reduction of human population via Fukushima.