(pt3) Radioactivity in rain 20 000cpm / sq. meter Toronto Canada!!!

Hi all!
This is part 3 of my measurements of the radioactivity falling on the north of GTA (Greater Toronto Area), Canada on August 14th 2011 at 17h55.
Aprox. 1 square meter of smooth surface wiped (glass, solar panels).
Measured with a Eberline HP-260 Pancake Probe and with a Eberline E-140 counter. (Sorry for the crappy video quality, I was using my cell phone camera, I guess it's alright for a first upload...)
I measured 20 000 cpm per square meter of wipe today!!! This is the all time record since I have been taking measurements since March 14th 2011 . Previous record was 10 000cpm (counts per minute).
One panel I always keep clean, but the other panels collected quite a bit of dirt which seems to increase the radioactivity collection ability. The panels were not radioactive before it rained.

The decay rate is typically 33min - 45minutes. This matches Radon decay daughter products being selectively washed out of the atmosphere, (hence the variable decay rate.)

Where is it from? Is it normal? Is it from Fukushima? Is the NWO spiking the clouds with radioactive isotopes for weather modification? Dunno. I all know, is we get cooked virtually every time it rains or snows. The levels are increasing. In the beginning the levels were roughly doubling every 2 weeks. Since the start of the summer the levels stabilized to 3500-5000 cpm per sq. meter every time it rained. But today, yikes! 20 000cpm!

Luckily the decay rate is short and I never detect any residual radiation in the wipes after a day or so. That's what is saving us from being cooked well done.

I've noticed that the worse the storm, the more extreme the weather, the higher the counts, leading me to think that this is done on purpose:

From the reasearch I did, Radon is a heavy gas that is 8 times as heavy as air, so it hugs the ground, aprox. 100 meters or less is where it tends to collect. So if this is ground Radon why does the levels increase if it rains all day?
Wouldn't it wash out of the air after 15 minutes or so and then the levels should drop?
(My area is not known for Radon collecting in basements).

I matched the highest counts with days where the storm clouds were the tallest in the troposphere. This is much too high for Radon to collect.
Is it being pumped there on purpose? Would Radon daughters charge up and seed rain and snowflakes? Dunno?

Is it coming from space? Radon has a very short half life of 8 days, I don't think it would be floating around in space and stay radioactive for billions of years waiting for the earth's gravity to pick it up...

Could it be traveling from Fukushima via the jet stream? It doesn't make sense, as the Radon gas is 8 times as heavy as air.
Could it be traveling from Fukushima via ground winds? Maybe?
Could it be Radon coming from the tailings from the Uranium mines and washing out by the rain? At these levels? Yikes we need to shut down all the mines and cover up the tailings quick!

Has anyone any insight on this? I know what I'm measuring it's real, it's no trick and the radioactivity falling in my area is real... The question is where is it from?

Thanks for your time!

:o)

Electrosyl

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[SparkyMcBiff]

Thank you for this post and for your monitoring.

I have wanted to t=do the exact same thing (I've got solar panels as well) but no pancake detector (yet).

I too live in Toronto so I appreciate the work that you are doing.

(Ignore the ignorant fools in the comments, these people will believe nothing until the idiot box tell them what to believe).

[electrosyl]

@SparkyMcBiff I'm having fun with some of the post, so they're not bothering me the least bit. When you see and experience things for yourself you know what's what. The rain this evening was also pretty hot, a vid is coming.

I'm going to post a few vids in the next day or so if the upload stops plugging up.

I'll be showing what the pancake tube looks like you might be interested in that. Most Geiger meters can be upgraded to a pancake tube as the electrical characteristics are pretty standard.

[mouse454]

The decay rate can't be right for reactor products. Maybe radioactive compounds are evaporating off the cloth. Seal samples or at least keep at the same temperature/humididty and see if that makes a difference.

[electrosyl]

@mouse454 I agree, if this is from Fukushima, it would have to be a very selective process that transports only certain radionuclides and not others. I always keep my wipes in a zip lock, I have a huge collection now. It makes no difference in the decay rate. But I keep them sealed for the day when maybe someone will want to test the wipes with more sophisticated lab equipment. I don't think this is "normal" for rain to be this "hot".

[BRANSCOMBEx]

Can you PLEASE call CBC

[Therolando]

@Therolando If you want to learn more about it or don't believe me just look for the article "Radioactive Rain Across the US is Natural", written by Natalie Wolchover. I came across the article today because the Amercian Nuclear Society posted it on there news feed since so many people were claiming Nuclear Energy and Fukushima as the cause.

[Therolando]

There is an article on lifesciene's website that specifically talks about what is actually causing there to be radioactivity in rain. As quoted in this article, "Is there cause for alarm? In fact, radioactive rain is not a new health threat or evidence of a cover-up by the nuclear industry, but rather is indicative of just how many naturally occurring radioactive particles there are in Earth's atmosphere."

[lookatwhatic]

and your holding that shit in your hand

[coyoteewater]

had the same reading of 22 000 in surry bc of march last year

[Diamonddavej]

It's Radon Washout.

If you measure again 12 hours later, you'll find no radioactivity, it's Radon's daughters (214Bi & 214Pb). They decay away in a few hours (half-life of 46 minutes). Now, if it's still radioactive, it's Fukushima. But... I hear the sound of a thunder storm...

Greenfield et al., 2006. Intense γ radiation from radon progeny accreted in/on rain during and following thunderstorms. In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Nashville, Tennessee.

[PilotVBall]

That's all coming from Japan.

[Goldieluvmj]

According to Alex, Canada had a nuclear meltdown in the past six months. This could be why your geiger counter registered a high radiation. watch?v=6zOWYXFgGMc

[WonderfulDenmark]

JESUS MAN, PUT THAT DAMN THING DOWN!

[AndrzejKaron]

It's interesting that the dosimeter (count of CPM) increased significantly only after strong applied the cloth to the sensor — a radiation in the air was much smaller

BTW: I remember the panic 25 years ago in Poland (East Europe):

on the 26th April 1986, the Chernobyl NPP was broken, and then on morning, April 28, the radiation IN THE AIR has increased in Poland (temporarily) by more than 500,000 times!

We survived the Chernobyl without any problem, so you survive Fukushima's 20,000 CPM also!

[441rider]

Nothing like that on wet west coast. .32umsv max. Pickering has been puking radiation a long time there and radon has to be considered along with uranium mining and rock crushing it.