Post: #126

The Geiger counter thing aboard the jetliner is specious. The higher one climbs into the atmosphere, the more intense solar radiation is.

Post: #127

You can easily account for background radiation, Dick, it's a known quantity, very stable and pretty low level. This being said that video looked pretty amateurish.

(12-23-2018 03:10 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

(02-13-2017 01:08 AM)weambulance Wrote:  As that article cites, all that's in the water is tritium,

Thank you for the summary. People can drink Tritium. You could bath in tritium every singe day your entire life and never even get a sunburn.

Average people are morons about radiation.

Actually, average people have very little understanding of how deadly radiation is, because few people have decent STEM backgrounds and the level of high school science is abysmally poor.

Cesium, strontium and a whole range of dangerous elements are also there.

Post: #128

I am a person that questions everything.

To see people saying, "not to worry" and "you could bath in it" WTF

3 reactors had melt-down and people are saying not to be worried.

Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen, which allows it to readily bind to hydroxyl radicals, forming tritiated water (HTO), and to carbon atoms. Since tritium is a low energy beta emitter, it is not dangerous externally (its beta particles are unable to penetrate the skin),[21] but it can be a radiation hazard when inhaled, ingested via food or water, or absorbed through the skin.

Enjoy your cancer.

Post: #129

A few years back, there was a TV programme in the UK about Chernobyl. Prior to going into the city, the crew were read the Riot Act by their producer, who told them that under no circumstances were they to eat or drink anything whilst they were there. This resulted in much mocking from an elderly couple, who still lived there, and offered them coffee and cake, which they had to refuse.

Post: #130

I'm somewhere on the fence about this issue. Sure, the ocean is vast, but certain toxic elements like mercury and cesium 132 accumulate in the food supply.

Also, if the vastness of the ocean were a solution then we would just dump nuclear waste in the ocean.

As far as Geiger counters, they are not expensive, about $200-$400. I bought one after Fukashima as a prep for about $200, its up in price now to $349.

https://www.geigercounters.com/shop-all/

One of the reasons I did this is that shortly after Fukashima the government revised safety levels to declare levels of radiation that were previously thought to be unsafe as safe. So I wanted to be able to measure it myself, and build up a history of data. Governments are always doing things like this - they recently revised the level of testosterone down so that low T is now considered normal.

Back to geiger counters, interestingly, some folks have networked their data.



http://radiationnetwork.com/



According to this network, there is some sort of radiation event this moment around Augusta, Georgia, which is east of Atlanta. In all likelihood someone's equipment is FUBAR but its nice to know this network exists.

Post: #131

(12-25-2018 04:56 AM)Hypno Wrote:  I'm somewhere on the fence about this issue. Sure, the ocean is vast, but certain toxic elements like mercury and cesium 132 accumulate in the food supply.

Also, if the vastness of the ocean were a solution then we would just dump nuclear waste in the ocean.

As far as Geiger counters, they are not expensive, about $200-$400. I bought one after Fukashima as a prep for about $200, its up in price now to $349.

https://www.geigercounters.com/shop-all/

One of the reasons I did this is that shortly after Fukashima the government revised safety levels to declare levels of radiation that were previously thought to be unsafe as safe. So I wanted to be able to measure it myself, and build up a history of data. Governments are always doing things like this - they recently revised the level of testosterone down so that low T is now considered normal.

Back to geiger counters, interestingly, some folks have networked their data.



http://radiationnetwork.com/



According to this network, there is some sort of radiation event this moment around Augusta, Georgia, which is east of Atlanta. In all likelihood someone's equipment is FUBAR but its nice to know this network exists.

In physics class in college, we used to use the geiger counters to read the radiation being emitted by the banannas in people's lunch sacks.

Yep...bananas have a ton of potassium in them and potassium emits radiation.

Or, just go to Denver or any high altitude town. Or get a dental X-ray.

Meanwhile, every single person reading this post has Tritium in their body right now. Yep. Right this second. Tritium everywhere.

If Tritium is a worry, I suggest the following preventative protocol:

1. Paint yourself blue
2. Wrap your body in aluminum foil
3. Run around naked in the street waving your arms in the air
4. Scream about radia-shun.

This will protect you from the deadly Fukushima Tritium floating across the Pacific ocean.