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A few months after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the background radiation where I lived in Anaheim, CA went from like 0.08 - 0.12usv to 0.40 - 0.70usv dependi
by oceanghost 5y ago
A few months after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the background radiation where I lived in Anaheim, CA went from like 0.08 - 0.12usv to 0.40 - 0.70usv depending on the day.
I had a radiation detector because I lived in a historic home and was a little paranoid about things like lead, radiation, etc.
It's of course anecdotal.
- renewiltord 5y agoFascinating. Thanks for that anecdote. I remember a story where some European nuclear plant operators all evacuated when their badges reported high radiation and on stepping out they realized the count was higher outside. Chernobyl had just failed. Might be apocryphal but I enjoyed the picture so I'm not even going to verify.
- swinglock 5y agoIt's true, the Chernobyl disaster was first detected and announced from the Forsmark plant in Sweden, while USSR was still hoping no one would notice. Over a day after, radiation was detected on a shoe of an employee about to enter. It was concluded there was no radiation inside the plant, and that it wasn't the plant leaking outside. That left winds from east as the source and that's how the world got to know.
- oceanghost 5y agoYou're welcome! I decided to look it up, and found this: "Canopy-Forming Kelps as California’s Coastal Dosimeter: 131I from Damaged Japanese Reactor Measured in Macrocystis pyrifera" https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203598r?journalCode=esthag& https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203598r?journalCode=e...