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In my experience it will vary greatly with where they are grown. The ones I have gotten from Costco aren't above background. Keep in mind that the level of ur
by 01100011 3y ago
In my experience it will vary greatly with where they are grown. The ones I have gotten from Costco aren't above background.
Keep in mind that the level of uranium could be above what you'd want to consume (ideally 0ppm...ha) and still not measure on a Geiger counter. This is why I wanted to setup a scintillating detector. You have to do long running tests in a shielded chamber and look at the spectra to see what, if any, contaminates are present.
- ravenstine 3y agoInteresting. By no means am I a nuclear expert, so there's a high likelihood I wasn't measuring what I thought I was measuring. What I thought I experienced consistently was a few extra CPM when I placed a bunch of bananas next to my off-the-shelf Geiger counter. Wish I kept track of what I actually measured. I'll have to try again.
- 01100011 3y agoBananas will read higher. I'm talking about brazil nuts. It depends on the food and what the source of the radiation is. If you want to find low level uranium contamination in most foods, you'll need something more sensitive than a geiger counter. If it was enough to see on the geiger counter, eating it would be a really bad idea.