Hazmat-level So Cal Rain - December 17, 2011

[caozsouls]

i live in vancouver, bc and the levels I saw in few videos were 180+cpm. I really want to test my area with that geiger counter but it costs 500-600 dollars. I cannot afford it at the moment.Its raining heavily here lately too

[HAAIB]

Sample size of one? Really? There also seems to be a fair amount of bias in your sample collection. What did you do to minimize bias?

[EnviroReporter]

@HAAIB - Did you just join YouTube (Dec. 31, 2011) to ask this rather tepid question? Well if you did, you could have at least defined what "bias" is according to you. Regardless, we sampled the rain and tested it. We minimize "bias" by doing it correctly, just ,like we have for 12 years of using Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitors and performing over 1,500 radiation tests since 3/15/11.

[intrptr]

So can we account for the rain having washed out the radioactive contamination from the cloud layer as having come directly from the still emitting cores and fuel pools in Japan? Or from the atmosphere that has travelled around and around the planet? Or from the ocean contamination having been brought from Japan on the currents and now evaporated and washed down with the rain?

[moominpug]

@intrptr It keeps on COMING here continuously! Even if they magically stopped Fukushima tomorrow, the amount of radioactive contamination of the ocean waters will continue to contribute to a perpetual dosage as water evaporates and makes new rain with particles in the ocean. I guess it would be lower than what we are getting now - which by this time would be a combo of both fresh HOT particles continuously flowing here from Japan and evaporation of HOT seawater into rainclouds.

[internalizepeace]

Wow, so are the towers still fissioning? This might be the greatest coverup EVER!!!!! Not okay Tepco!

[internalizepeace]

I've had suspicions about the severity of Fukushima fallout on the West coast... And this just adds fuel to the fire... I was in Santa Monica on this day, out in the rain... As the rain touched my body I remembered the days when I celebrated playing in the rain... And then I felt worried, wondering in that moment if I was being exposed to radiation. Well it seems I was, and I hope I'll be okay. This is upsetting and my mind is still trying to come to terms with it all.

[zg294]

It's just my preference, but I prefer a GR-135. It's more reliable and accurate and also gives the monitor a line graph representation to compare different isotopes and backrounds. Good video, keep 'em coming.

[getincarihavecandy]

Right on man. Thanks for posting this. My friends think I'm nuts because I talk about fukushima so much. All my friends and cali are getting irradiated. No 1 saying anything about it aside from alternative media. This is fucking bullshit

[surfstev]

I've just been doing some checking and apparently 40 cpm is not that high. I found a video showing a Fiesta dinnerware plate dated Feb. 8 2010 and the background was 60. Interestingly the radioactive glaze on the dinner plate measured a whopping 26,000 counts per minute. I also found a youtube by UraniumCowboy. The guy is suited up at a uranium mine and his geiger is going off at 33,000! Wonder how many families died from eating off those plates because they didn't get suited up for dinner.

[EnviroReporter]

@surfstev - Check out my previous reply. Yes, 40 cpm at this elevation and geology is higher than one would expect: 12 to 15 cpm. Thanks, surfstev for your interest and for your bravery for living in Trona which, believe it or not, is one of Denise and my favorite burgs in the Golden State. Sick huh?

[Sourpusscandy]

@surfstev yes, the orange glaze was indeed radioactive. so are older glow-in the dark watch numbers/hands

[surfstev]

Over 40 counts per minute of background radiation seems kind of high to begin with. Shouldn't that be raising peoples attention or am I misinformed? I thought normal was like 2 or 3 cpm.

[EnviroReporter]

@surfstev - You are correct: 40 cpm indoors is absolutely high. But note the 9 months of testing we've done (as well as years of it before Fukushima in Southern California) and you'll see that the background radiation in this region is high, at least 2 to 3 times as high as it should be compared to regions with similar elevation and geology. The heightened rads could be a function, in part, of partial meltdowns from Rocketdyne 35 miles northwest of downtown LA. 2-3 cpm is not normal though.

[commandorando123]

EPAs answer was to raise the accepted radiation levels

[HyperIndividualist]

Will you save the sample and check it again later on to get an idea of decay rate (e.g., radon)?

[EnviroReporter]

@HyperIndividualist - Yes we did have decay but after 48 hours it was still above background meaning the presence of medium and longer-lived radionuclides. Thanks for the excellent and astute question.

[Fend4urself]

Thank Obama for running the coverup. God bless that Soul-less bastard.

[thehangmansaxe]

EnviroReporter, have you ever reported these readings directly to the appropriate authorities? What do they say?

[zulucowboy]

This isn't unique to the West coast. Two months ago, I was getting readings of 4 times background on rain samples, here in Tennessee. This is global. Radioactive Iodine 131 has a half life of 8 days...meaning if it takes 8 days for radiation to reach from Fukushima, Japan to the west coast...then it has already decayed to about half it's strength. Stay out of the rain folks. You may also want to consider acquiring some potassium iodide tablets. These flood your thyroid gland with clean iodine.

[wotan237]

Fukushima, the most significant event in human history

[iTrollhardi]

ugh....San Diego here...Good game Fukushima.

[yaahme]

Pack up the Moving Truck and Boogie the hell out of Dodge...

[militiamedia]

Sadly, people would rather question their own then question the government.

[lorileeandraygotodc]

WHY IS THIS GUY NOT WEARING PROTECTION?

[FSUSW15009]

What's the scale and sensitivity on that detector?

[scunkmonkey]

cpm

[ill318]

guys search:

Director for Counter-Terrorism, Audrey Tomason called for humane depopulation via nuclear radiation

[kydish]

thx for reporting.

[ThunderPreacher]

It is higher than 300% so then I guess the CHP is all over the place! Must be a hazmat spectacle in Cali after each rain.

[909830]

Does anybody take this seriously? Why are people not moving? You're being nuked!

[salsa20]

@909830 What can we do? 

[cory2146]

@salsa20 Get revenge.

[patticakes554]

@909830 Yes, we are being nuked; And when i try and tell my family, they look at me like a deer in the headlights and say I am crazy. We have a blackout in the media and no one is talking about it...I wonder why?? Why would the governments of the world NOT tell us to protect ourselves. Well, we are at 6 billion now on the planet and running out of resources (clean food, water, fuel, etc). Check out the movie Thrive...show it to your friends and family so they can become aware.

[mrshorty13579]

@909830 Sigh.... who really cares? if we die we die... No point in being scared

[EndNuclearAgenda21]

@909830 we dont move for several reasons, we have no money,, our jobs dont transfer us, no else is moving, we have no where to go,, no where is safe not even where you are,, and we really dont have any options,, but thanks for the support,,

[ACatal1]

I have ask you a question about those California spring waters that is shipped & sold in Texas, and it comes from the source Paloma Mountain, can you get a chance to test them with your Geiger counter ? I believe those spring waters is sold in stores in California, too.

[MAC02134]

this is why ice is melting on planet poles

[EVILisEVILdoes]

Thanks for the Report... God Bless