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@Ralph Unger I can set for several radionuclides, are there any you would like for me to check?by bo 5/2/2011 1:02:14 AM- @bo does the media give any info on the rad info/readings...by fitter 5/2/2011 1:02:34 AM
This looks like an episode from 'Men in Black"! :)by Jim Carver 5/2/2011 1:03:38 AM- @fitter I can't read the Japanese language media, but since the first two weeks, I have not seen "current" readings at all. Then I saw them on Japanese tv, almost like a weather chart with temps listed by city. Now all I have seen is media reports of statements being made by people, not daily readingsby bo 5/2/2011 1:04:00 AM
- @Bo Can you do I-131? I have no idea how these things work, I just read the data.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:05:21 AM
- @bo until the media black out I was able to get Japanese TV live better than US hereby fitter 5/2/2011 1:05:24 AM
- @Ralph Unger for some reason that is one that it doesn't read, this was made for industry, but it does read for 12 specific radionuclidesby bo 5/2/2011 1:06:10 AM
- Then pls check for the short lived ones, I can specify if needed.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:06:55 AM
- @bo can you test your food with it or is it just air/waterby fitter 5/2/2011 1:07:01 AM
- @fitter NHK world should still be available in English online, also on an iPhone app, but there is not very much coverage anymoreby bo 5/2/2011 1:07:08 AM
- @fitter I am not sure how it works, it has a very sensitive monitor that I hold up to anything, food, plants, water, air, and there are two separate monitors for alpha and gammaby bo 5/2/2011 1:08:16 AM
- @bo i have nt been able to get it except evey once and awhile.... but I am not that great at computorsby fitter 5/2/2011 1:08:27 AM
- @Ralph Unger please do as I am not a physicistby bo 5/2/2011 1:08:31 AM
- I hate to ask, but what does your detector detect?by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:10:05 AM
- You have 25 elements I have about 2000 that are important.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:10:41 AM
- Or link the detector specs to me. Make and model.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:11:23 AM
- @bo @all see you in the am... stay in touch bo...by fitter 5/2/2011 1:11:59 AM
- @Ralph Unger: Americium-241, Carbon-14, Chlorine-36, Lead-210(d), Lead-210 (w), Radium-226 (d), Radium-226 (w), Strontium-90, Cobalt-60, Phosphorus-32, Plutonium-239, Uranium-238, Caesium-137, Polonium-210by bo 5/2/2011 1:13:33 AM
- Thanks @fitter, also, I just read for Cs137 and my peak reading was .6 Bq/cmby bo 5/2/2011 1:14:07 AM
- @Ralph Unger: Tracerco T401 and T402by bo 5/2/2011 1:14:32 AM
- I just did a quick glance and they all look to be long half-life products.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:14:55 AM
- Which means they might be from nuclear testing and the bombs.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:20:50 AM
- @Ralph Unger strange that that should be reassuring!by bo 5/2/2011 1:21:54 AM
@bo Hello. Do you have a reading of Cobalt-60 ?by Reed 5/2/2011 1:22:15 AM- @Reed I can take one. Be back in a few minutes.by bo 5/2/2011 1:23:10 AM
- A long half life means it will be around for a long time, it also means it is not as dangerous as short half-life products as it take the
amby Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:23:11 AM - Them 30 years to produce the radiation that it takes I-131 8 days to produce.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:23:42 AM
- Cs-137(30 years) vs I-1318 Days).by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:26:22 AM
- Sorry for the bad typing, dog attack, :-)by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:28:07 AM
- @Reed my peak reading was 1.70 Bq/cm(squared). This was off of plants and dirt read through the cracks in the walls of a hillside.by bo 5/2/2011 1:29:31 AM
- @bo Thank you. That is not good news. I am very suprised to see a Co-60 reading in Hiroshima. Due to the half-life of 5.27 years, one can not write that off to history.by Reed 5/2/2011 1:30:50 AM
- That seems to be about normal Bo. That is 1.7 decay events per? what was the setting?by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:31:34 AM
- @Ralph Unger not sure how to read it. I confess ignorance and also having just begun to take measurements. The reading is Bq/cm(squared) but should I be looking for another setting or guage?by bo 5/2/2011 1:32:50 AM
- cps?by bo 5/2/2011 1:33:44 AM
- It is normally per hour. Let me read the manual.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:34:10 AM
- @Ralph Unger thanksby bo 5/2/2011 1:34:42 AM
- by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:37:06 AM
- Yep.It is a per hour reading.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:40:18 AM
- That is normal background radiation levels I believe.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:40:59 AM
- @Ralph Unger thanks, that at least gives me a little momentary, local sense of well being!by bo 5/2/2011 1:42:00 AM
- So , rest easy and take your hands off your nuts. They are OK :-)by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:42:38 AM
- @Phew!!by bo 5/2/2011 1:43:55 AM
- Sorry to be crude, but that is what I do when I an in danger of radiation.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:44:58 AM
- No problem, I've been using that line for years.by bo 5/2/2011 1:46:47 AM
- I have a 21 year old daughter, I need not worry about that anymore, but I still do.by Ralph Unger 5/2/2011 1:47:48 AM
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