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The problem with regular Geiger counters is that the sensitive ones saturate and you risk missing being in a high radiation environment. The models built for ci
by weinzierl 2y ago
The problem with regular Geiger counters is that the sensitive ones saturate and you risk missing being in a high radiation environment. The models built for civil protection are not sensitive enough for daily use.
Luckily scintillation counters, like the one from the article seems to be, became really cheap in the past few years. I have a RadiaCode and it is a device one could only dream of a decade ago.