HOT Michigan Rain 12/30/11 Pt 1

Read an in-depth analysis of this high reading in our post "Seasons Readings" at http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/01/seasons-readings/. The first storm we experienced on a holiday visit to my family came in at background as did the snow that it changed into. This cold rain, however, was hot, in fact so hot that it came in at ~561% of normal during this test.

A Hot Rain's Gonna Fall might be an appropriate song title for this test as Part 2 bears out.

7:20pm INTERIOR SPOT CHECK of Southwest Michigan rain sample: 254 CPM^ or HIGHER ~561% of previous background average

7:08pm ten-minute INTERIOR average: 45.3 CPM^

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[Krisesakes]

How does CPM's translate to microsieverts ?

[EnviroReporter]

@Krisesakes - According to the Inspector Alert manual, 33,400 CPM = 10 mR/hr = 100 μSv/hr.

[drewzillasaurusrex]

How do you know this radiation is from Fukushima?  The East Coast and midwest are dotted with aging nuclear facilities that could be leaking radioactive garbage.

[EnviroReporter]

@drewzillasaurusrex - That is an excellent question. Sure, anything's possible but where we tested this Michigan rain, it is upwind of the East Coast, significantly north of most Midwest reactors. But we were downwind of three reactors, one of which, is one of the most troubled in the country - Palisades on Lake Michigan. The waters we tested around Palisades and the nearby Cook plant were normal. A gamma scintillation counter used as a spectrometer would confirm Fukushima radionuclides.

[masterofmanythings1]

could you join me feb2 on my radio station launch and present some info on the radiation falling on us?

[EnviroReporter]

@masterofmanythings1 - Thanks for the offer but I'm booked solid schedule-wise to be able to do a good job. I really appreciate the offer. You can hear me on Monday nights at 9pm PST on the Rense Radio Network talking about Fukushima meltdowns and fallout in America. renseradio [dot] com

[Zeno1999]

@warhawke223 < May be some corporation getting rid of their radioactive waste hoping to burn it away; couple of years ago.

Here in Canada, inspectors caught a gasoline pump station selling gas with PCBs mixed in it - highly toxic fumes on the road ! And it had been going on for a while as a way to avoid costly storage of used PCB ( transformer coolant ).

[drewzillasaurusrex]

@EnviroReporter roger that

[altgeldrarities]

@drewzillasaurusrex Whether it's from the 2000+ nuclear tests since the 1950's or Fukushima, your human cells will react the same. The main problem that makes Fukushima so bad is that it's getting worse every day by adding more radioactive waste contaminates to the environment every day. The other problem is that the contamination comes from the worst kind of radiactive poisoning....plutonium. Every day forward will be worse than the day before it. The doom clock started 3-11-2011.

[EnviroReporter]

@warhawke223 - Read our "Seasons Readings" post and you'll see that we detected in jet flight to and from Michigan over 5 times higher radiation at 28,000 feet than the manufacturer of our detector says is normally found at 30,000. Normally found includes the high radiation emissions from coal-fired plants. Good observation, but also note that where we detected this was nowhere even near a coal-fired plant which clearly points the finger at Fukushima fallout. Thanks for the astute comment.