And no, i don´t want to stir up panic (Arioch, if you don´t want to have a discussion on this, please feel free to cancel it).
But looking on the recent events in Fukushima i´d like to know if some of you living near the american westcoast have access to independent geiger counters?
I myself bought a Gammascout® (it also measures alpha and beta, and is calibrated to less than 5% error) years ago because we in hamburg live inbetween three old reactors, two of them in pretty poor condition, just to monitor possible "events".
And yes, we had "smaller" "events", who weren´t confirmed by the authorities, but measured by enviromentalist groups - and by me.
It was only in the low digits at about 3µSv/h (about 60 times ambient), but i´d still consider it at least annoying that our so-called "radiation-protection-authorities" didn´t do anything about it. They didn´t even confirmed it.
Don´t get me wrong, i´m not a tin-hatter, but i´ve seen desinformation already.
So, now i saw a map with a prediction for radiation on the american westcoast, and they predicted pretty high increases. Don´t get me wrong: An increase of 100 times above ambient isn´t life-threatening, but still significant nevertheless.
For comparison: Ambient radiation in Hamburg/Germany right now is 0.04 µSv/h (microsievert per hour).
What i found on the internet were only official sites so i ask here if some of you maybe have better (independent) data, because this is the only "international/american" techgeekforum i´m in.
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