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Silicon Valley radiation levels
- chipperyman573 10y agoI see a huge jump between the 17th and 18th but I have no idea what that means. Can someone please explain? Or is the jump minor, and the axis is to blame for the seemingly large change?
- unicornporn 10y agoI have no idea either, but I'd guess it's an insignificant change based on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676862 Silicon Valley is far from "Europe" though...
- exDM69 10y agoNote the scale. The "huge jump" is from 8.3 to 8.7 uR/h, just a few percent.
- t_fatus 10y agonevertheless it seems quite significative, and I would love to get some explaination for this kind of jump.
- Etheryte 10y agoWithout any context or explanation, the link isn't really useful nor interesting. Is a daily average change of roughly 0.5 uR/h meaningful? We can see from the hourly chart above that short-term fluctuations can be between roughly 0 and 20 uR/h, what is a meaningful change? It's currently very unclear what the linker is trying to say with sharing the link and why it was shared to begin with.
- moonshinefe 10y agoagreed, there's 0 context here and I'd be highly interested to know why the graphs are being up voted.
- jameswason 10y agoagreed
- rodionos 10y agoCorrelated to Iodine-131 readings in Europe?
- gojiberry 10y agoCould it be the storm is bringing radiation from Fukushima?
- jameswason 10y agoNo relation with the link and post.
- walkingolof 10y agoI dont know the context, but there has been a Iodine-131 leak has been detected in Europe in January .... http://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20170213_Detection-of-radioactive-iodine-at-trace-levels-in-Europe-in-January-2017.aspx http://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20170213_Detection...
- yoodenvranx 10y agoDiscussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676570
- Nanite 10y agoWould downvote if I could, anything below 10 uR/h is background radiation. Sniffles posted a link to a rad monitoring device doing it's thing, and not showing anything out of the ordinary.
- 50CNT 10y agoI think it's great that the chart is completely ordinary. Imagine how terrible it'd be if it suddenly became fascinating.
- rodionos 10y agoSan Jose: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-jose-ca https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-jose-ca San Francisco: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-francisco-ca https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-francisco-ca Gamma Gross Count Rate represents how many gamma rays the monitor detects each minute. The levels looks normal to me.