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5/29/11 UPDATE
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Breaking Alert: Short 1/2 life Radioactive Fallout in Saint Louis Missouri
Description updated 4/6/11
Known facts:
(1) the fallout read 0.228 mR/Hr
(2) the sample was a very few drops of rain water from my SUV
(3) Roughly 2.5 days later the sample showed no radioactivity.
Conjectures:
(1) If this Fallout blew in from Fukushima, it may have been dangerously radioactive over California.
(2) The fallout may have been Iodine 123 produced from nuclear spallation of Cesium 133 via Solar Proton Bombardment
(3) Given Conjecture #2, the source of the Cesium 133 was the decay product of Fukushima produced Xenon 133
For the details on the sample please continue reading below.
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4/6/11 Changed 2nd title to prevent confusion: Breaking Alert: Radioactive Fallout may have been Iodine 123
First title: Radioactive fallout rain and contamination in Saint Louis Missouri 3/29/11
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Keep your kids and pets out of the rain!
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The video shows the radioactive result of a VERY FEW drops of rain which drizzled out of the sky and down onto an SUV on 3/29/11 in Saint Louis Missouri. The rain drops were mopped up off of the hood with a paper towel and a radioactivity reading was taken with a "Radalert Inspector".
It is definitely concerning how hot a FEW rain drops of Fukushima fallout can be 9000 miles and several days away from its source in Japan. We were quite surprised how hot the sample was relative to the radioactive snow we measured last week. This sample of radioactive drizzle maxed out and stabilized at 0.228 millirems per hour. Unfortunately, I am unable to identify if the source is Cesium 137, Iodine 131, Iodine 129, Plutonium, or any number of radionuclides the can easily be absorbed through the skin,lungs or stomach. The risk is not so much being exposed to 0.228 mR/Hr in passing, it is eating, inhaling, absorbing, or ingesting the radioactive source of that radiation. It is the difference between getting an X-ray and eating the X-ray machine.
In the short term, we keep our children out of the fallout rain and snow. We make sure our pets and their water bowls are not exposed to the radioactive fallout. Moreover, the greater risk is prolonged radionuclide fallout and environmental contamination over an on going period of months; it would be a death by a thousand cuts, as plants and animals absorb, concentrate, and pass radioactive fallout into our food chain.
If there was ever a year to pray for drought, this is it! Sadly even in the best case scenarios, it would be wise to expect an entire spring rainy season of this kind of fallout; It is likely that Fukushima will produce fallout to rain down on us for many months to come. Take what precautions you can; expect to the EPA to "protect you" and address this issue by raising safe limits for radioactive contamination.
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4/1/11 update:
Despite the April 1st date, this is no joke.
Breaking update to the original post:
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Breaking Alert: Fallout may have been Iodine 123
The radioactive fallout sample taken on 3/29/11 no longer reads above background radiation on 4/1/11. I roughly estimated the half life to be no greater than 18 hours.
The potentially dangerous news is that this fallout may have been much more radioactive a few days before, when it was over the west coast. Given the fast half life, a good portion of the radioactivity could have disappeared before ever reaching a government lab. Just a few days earlier this sample may have read 14.0 mR/hr.
STAY OUT OF THE RAIN
Based on the estimated half life and governmental reports of radioiodine, I suspect that the radioactive Iodine is actually Iodine-123. If I am correct, the risk of thyroid damage will increase exponentially the closer one gets to Fukushima. I pray I am wrong. The silver lining is a reduced risk of environmental build up.
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4/2/11 Update
There is a potential that the Iodine 123 is being produced by Solar Proton Bombardment of Xenon; A large Coronal Mass Ejection could have serious fallout repercussions.
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