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Advanced Topics NC's independent monitoring CP5M is counts per minute over a 5 minute interval.
1 3" above small puddle, 2' from gutter drain; same area, when
puddle was gone/dissolved, measured 310 at 10:15pm (4/10) and 302 at
8:30am (4/11) and 296 at 12:10pm (4/11). On 4/10 at 8:30pm, (inside) room under
roof = 163 CP5M
through 4/22: 1 meter above-ground in the outdoors, at edge of a concrete sidewalk surrounded by soil and plants and 3 meters from a house. Post 4/30: similar outdoors location Background assessment: 19 readings from 3/14 - 3/17 Mean: 205.6 1 Standard Deviation (SD) = 22.5 (Range: 183.1 - 228.1) 2 SDs = 45.1 (Range: 160.5 - 250.6) 3 SDs = 67.6 (Range: 138 - 273.2) More online independent monitoring data this page To see how far we are from Cold War CPM levels, see links at footnote 39 on this page. |
Prefixes, conversions and equivalents
Tables about atomic elements, decay charts, fission yields
NuclearCrimes.org's sitemap and various public and government documents of interest we uploaded online: 1. 
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'The
greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that the only
victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.'
- Forgotten
Guinea Pigs Report, 1980
| Tips for arguing with radiation PR people | ||
| When they belittle your claims... | by comparing any exposure from their facilities to... | You say or ask... |
| ...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... | ....background radiation... | 'Background radiation doesn't mean it is harmless - it
probably does cause a small portion of cancers. If you are adding
to the background radiation, you are adding to someone's risk.'
'How many more defective children will be born and how many cancers will be induced by this increase in 'background radiation'? |
| ...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... | ...flying in a airplane... | 'That is not a realistic comparison. Radionuclides in fallout are incorporated into our bodies (tissue, bones). Most of the radiation from cosmic rays is external.' |
| ...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... | ... a chest x-ray... | 'You don't ingest or inhale the radiation source from x-rays. An x-ray lasts for a millisecond. Fallout lingers in body tissue and bones for decades .' |
| ...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... | ...eating a banana | 'Potassium-40 is a naturally occurring radioisotope that has been present in foods and the environment on Earth for billions of years. Potassium 40, which at normal body levels delivers an annual internal dose to the soft tissue of 20 millirem and 5 millirem to the bone, is not as hazardous as many forms of anthropogenic (meaning: artificial; manmade) radiation for several reasons. One main reason is, unlike many types of manmade fission products, its environmental levels rarely peak to hundreds or thousands of times normal levels. Since 1945, we've seen a cycle of drastic rising and falling of levels of environmental anthropogenic radiation with nuclear accidents, non-accident releases, radioactivity blowing around, etc... Another reason: some forms of anthropogenic radiation in the body do much more damage than potassium-40 for the same quantity of radiation. Dose tables printed in a 1970s document (NUREG 1.109 rev. 1 Oct. '77) by the NRC paint a spooky, yet realistic, picture for what happens to a radiation sensitive organ, the thyroid, when iodine-131 is consumed. A NRC formula indicates that 1,000 picocuries of iodine-131 gives a dose of 80 millirems to the adult thyroid and 140 millirems to the thyroid of an infant. Consider: one liter of 'Sunrise Dairy' (Kansas) milk in April 2011 had 1,518 pCi/L of Iodine-131. That was from Fukushima. |
| ...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... | ...standing next to a smoke alarm.... | 'You don't ingest or inhale the Americium-241 from smoke alarms. You're talking about the small gamma component of Am-241. That's external exposure.' |