Radioactive Container Truck Spewing Gamma Rays Into Traffic on I-270 in Saint Louis, Missouri

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We got stuck next to this truck during the 7pm July 1st holiday traffic on North bound I-270, after seeing the Radioactive warning placards we pulled out the Geiger Counter and Camera. Lesson learned, AVOID RADIOACTIVE TRUCKS!

The Geiger counter samples over a 30 second moving average, updated every 3 seconds. Notice how the reading on the Geiger Counter keeps moving upwards after we pass the truck; had we stayed next to the radioactive truck the readings would have went even higher.

Pray for the truck driver; the source of gamma rays appeared to be located almost directly behind the driver. One would think that these things would be much more heavily shielded, located further away from the driver, and that such materials would be transported when other people are not on the road.
The truck exited I-270 at Lilac Ave.

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News & Politics

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• Radioactive
• Truck
• Gamma
• Rays
• tractor
• trailer
• Saint
• Louis
• Missouri
• I-270
• Nuclear

[potrblog]

After some research, a person next to a truck legally shipping radioactive materials could expect a dosage between 10 mR/Hr to 200 mR/Hr.

According to the government, a pregnant woman should avoid anything greater than 2 mR/Hr. At max, if she stayed next to a legal truck for more than 15 minutes should would be required to wear a dosimeter for the rest of her pregnancy. A woman early enough in her pregnancy to not know she is pregnant might miscarry from a passing "legal" exposure.

[potrblog]

Here is a question to anyone who says the situation was safe and/or legal:

"If a pregnant woman is stuck in traffic next to a radioactive container truck operating at its maximum legal limit of radioactivity, how long should the pregnant woman remain stuck in traffic next to that truck before she should flee her vehicle for the safety of her child?"

[lifehackertips]

1:06 "that's about half as hot as we've detected in the rain here in missouri"

Missouri rain is radioactive?

[potrblog]

@lifehackertips At least since Fukushima. I track it on my blog site POTRBLOG.com.

Here is a video of one storm that produced radioactive fallout rain at 62 times greater than background watch?v=bdlJzZYCEwM

[serialsoft]

How amusing, the few people who understand radiation and are correctly telling you these are nominal levels are being overrun by idiots pulling data out of context from wikipedia and drawing the wrong conclusions from it.

Common people this is 3 uSv, that is less than the background radiation in Colorado.

[potrblog]

@serialsoft, "the few people who understand radiation" would tell you that:

(1) there is a difference between gamma rays and "background radiation"

(2) the Geiger counter never stabilized long enough to get the true high reading.

(3) the Geiger counter is calibrated to Cs 137, and that if we knew what the actual radionuclide(s) are/were that the reading might yet still be even higher

(4) its better to explain things in terms of Sieverts, than letting people know the equivalent death/cancer rate

[septicbrainfluid]

@lannlann I eat sushy everyday and now i can shoot lazers beams out my anu$.

[lanemays513]

I want this video on my OT-E801 unit.

[percygoff614]

I am questioning where the offending forms of remarks are.

[1veryreal]

@septicbrainfluid LOVE IT

[marinah2oblue]

Wow thats amazing!!

[misterfortran]

I live about 5 miles from that Lilac street 270 exit.

Have you been testing the tap water?

Please post if and when you get any detections.

[TubeZoogy]

@usadexter really? how successful do you think they'd be waving their arms and yelling at the driver to stop in the middle of freeway traffic? also no, they would not make national news; this truck falls within legal confines (as bad as they are). this video is enough to prove that they are dangerous. and any driver hauling radioactive material should know well in advance that he is being exposed... chances are, they probably don't care or know about the dangers.

[MoonNymph775]

Uhohhh

[DianeDi]

Thanks for this great eye opening video. Driving has now become even more hazardous to our health. I am truly appalled, but not surprised, how they just think they can expose the population like this. I have to wonder exactly what the source of radiation was in the trailer of that truck.

[JP5466]

Wow. Excellent video!

[usadexter]

If this is true...WHY WOULDN'T YOU WARN THE DRIVER? Any logical person would have stopped that truck, stopped traffic, called 911 and had the problem taken care of. You could have made N ational, even Worldwide news, drawing attention to this horrendous problem. instead, you drive by, and make a damn youtube video. where were your heads?