Agree Vital1, finding hot particles, 'very upsetting'. Some hot particles may still be lost in the averages of your measurements with no one there to notice a spike. If a hot particle is floating around in the air it is only chance that the detector noticed it before someone inhaled it. And though it hasn't been quantified, the risk in the Northern Hemisphere is much higher. Hot particles are at the center of the debate over the safety of nuclear contamination.
Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog
A Historical Description of the Hot Particle Deception
https://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/201...deception/
Watching that recovery and rebuilding work, it's the weekend in Daichi, not much movement on the tepcam recording monitors. It snowed Saturday evening and clouded the view but it's clearing up leaving the look of some emissions still on cam1. I still see the occasional blinking spark but not at the rate that I saw around the night of the cam4 sparks. What to make of the radiation detections that are made? Paul Langley's article on hot particles was a good read. Vital1's not safe in the Southern Hemisphere from nuclear fallout. MVB detects anomalies. Will the Great Disaster, Fukushima Daiichi be the last nuclear mishap the public will know anything about? Watch out for that fallout it could be a killer.
Public knowledge is sparse. I was never approved.
The data is not readily available and the public is woefully uninformed of anything nuclear. The nuclear priesthood chants 'Its safe' but they know it isn't.
Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog
A Historical Description of the Hot Particle Deception
https://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/201...deception/
Quote:The risk posed by such hot particles is indeterminate yet foreseeable. A given group of people in the same environment will be exposed to the same external dose. Those who happen internalise more hot particles will be at higher risk than those who internalise none or less of the hot particles.
Quote:In any event, the ICRP regime is based upon external measurement. And that according to Pollanen, quoted above and many others, is a totally inaccurate view of the hazards.
External dose may be uniform for a group of people in the same place. But intake and retention of hot particles which become internal emitters is not going to be uniform. It depends upon chance and, in the case of inhalation, the state of the individual’s ability to clear material from the lungs. It will widely vary.
(I am not covering contaminated food here, but even this route is variable.)
Entry of hot particles via skin injuries is probably important in Japan in the context of recovery and rebuilding work post the Great Disaster.
Watching that recovery and rebuilding work, it's the weekend in Daichi, not much movement on the tepcam recording monitors. It snowed Saturday evening and clouded the view but it's clearing up leaving the look of some emissions still on cam1. I still see the occasional blinking spark but not at the rate that I saw around the night of the cam4 sparks. What to make of the radiation detections that are made? Paul Langley's article on hot particles was a good read. Vital1's not safe in the Southern Hemisphere from nuclear fallout. MVB detects anomalies. Will the Great Disaster, Fukushima Daiichi be the last nuclear mishap the public will know anything about? Watch out for that fallout it could be a killer.
(02-17-2018, 06:13 AM)piajensen Wrote: It certainly wouldn't be the first time the winds from up north made their way into the southern hemisphere. I recall a few years back there was a significant shift in the streams and do believe vital1 captured that data then as well.
Horse, I wouldn't say the history of radiation readings is sparse - because there is significant data captured by CTBTO's global network.They just make it very difficult for people to get their hands on that data, and when 'approved' people do get the data, they are restricted in how they can use and publish it.
Public knowledge is sparse. I was never approved.
The data is not readily available and the public is woefully uninformed of anything nuclear. The nuclear priesthood chants 'Its safe' but they know it isn't.
"The map is not the territory that it is a map of ... the word is not the thing being referred to."