Comments on: Hazmat-level So Cal Rain – December 17, 2011 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/12/hazmat-level-so-cal-rain-december-17-2011/ Mon, 21 May 2012 15:08:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bob Banever http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/12/hazmat-level-so-cal-rain-december-17-2011/#comment-91442 Bob Banever Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:37:10 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12508#comment-91442 Sirs, Thanks so much for your enviroreporting and publishing of your radiation readings. I live near Pasadena so your readings are very close to home. I'm a runner, running about 12 - 15 miles a week, have been for years. I'm very concerned now... after learning of the increased backround level during a rain I'm concerned about hot particulates I'm breathing outside. Have the readings been this high on and off since Fukushima? This is a real nightmare, I certainly don't want to contract cancer from my activities. Do you recommend staying indoors during a rain? Thanks and keep up the great work. Bob Banever OMD., L.Ac Sirs,

Thanks so much for your enviroreporting and publishing of your radiation readings. I live near Pasadena so your readings are very close to home. I’m a runner, running about 12 – 15 miles a week, have been for years. I’m very concerned now… after learning of the increased backround level during a rain I’m concerned about hot particulates I’m breathing outside. Have the readings been this high on and off since Fukushima? This is a real nightmare, I certainly don’t want to contract cancer from my activities. Do you recommend staying indoors during a rain? Thanks and keep up the great work.

Bob Banever OMD., L.Ac

]]> By: Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/12/hazmat-level-so-cal-rain-december-17-2011/#comment-90421 Michael Collins Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:30:43 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12508#comment-90421 <strong>@ Frank Thompson</strong>: Your measurements are useful to all of us provided that they're accurately taken which, we assume, they are. We don't think what you found was a hot particle. It more likely was radon progeny (though at over four times background, your detection may have picked up something else that could have come from Fukushima since three ongoing and worsening meltdowns are the most obvious suspect). So keep those measurements coming, Frank. Folks in Virginia, as well as the rest of us, surely appreciate them. @ Frank Thompson: Your measurements are useful to all of us provided that they’re accurately taken which, we assume, they are. We don’t think what you found was a hot particle. It more likely was radon progeny (though at over four times background, your detection may have picked up something else that could have come from Fukushima since three ongoing and worsening meltdowns are the most obvious suspect). So keep those measurements coming, Frank. Folks in Virginia, as well as the rest of us, surely appreciate them.

]]> By: Frank Thompson http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/12/hazmat-level-so-cal-rain-december-17-2011/#comment-90413 Frank Thompson Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12508#comment-90413 I wanted to know how to contact you about contributing rad reading data from here in Virginia as I also have an Inspector Alert and have been taking readings for a week or so now. Our avg indoor is 40-44 and had taken a rain sample wiped from our windshield after returning home during a recent rain on a paper towel which hit 171 counts/min(1713 counts in 10 min). It faded to about 45 after 5 hours or so. May have been a hot particle. However, if this effort is not useful to you on the West Coast let me know by email. Thank you. Frank I wanted to know how to contact you about contributing rad reading data from here in Virginia as I also have an Inspector Alert and have been taking readings for a week or so now. Our avg indoor is 40-44 and had taken a rain sample wiped from our windshield after returning home during a recent rain on a paper towel which hit 171 counts/min(1713 counts in 10 min). It faded to about 45 after 5 hours or so. May have been a hot particle. However, if this effort is not useful to you on the West Coast let me know by email.

Thank you.

Frank

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