As finally picked up by Mainstream Media today radiation monitors across ssections of the United States went into alert status. According to the EPA though there is no reason to be concerned, the recorded levels were no more than if you had taken a plane ride, or gotten an X-ray.
Well it may very well be that the reading on those monitors is the equivelent of a plane ride or an X-Ray, but HELLO!!!! I get off the plane, I do not stay on this imaginary comparable plane ride 24/7. Day after Day. Week after Week. Month after Month. I ride for a few hours, I am X-rayed a few minutes.
Quite frankly as one American citizen I am not satisfied with the information being passed along. There is a reason the radiation monitoring stations have levels that set off alerts> and we have surpassed these levels far longer than the ONE day Main stream media has discussed.
The topic of high level radiation monitor readings began with a story I broke which began with high readings recorded first in Denver and then exceedingly high 6 digit readings out of North Carolina on March 18th.
This was followed by early morning release of this article with a screen capture of Denver at the highest point via Radiation network .com.
I do know that conversation at Berkley University sounds like they are taking this much more seriously than the officials. According to the FAQ section they have provided this information regarding comparing airborne radioactive waste to a plane flight:
7.Is it valid to compare doses from these radionuclides to a cross-country plane flight?
The short answer: Yes, based on any dose standards used in health physics at these very low dose levels.
The long answer: Because of the chemistry of the human body, chemicals have different uptake rates and biological half-lives, and also accumulate in different areas. If these chemicals are radioactive (e.g., I-131), they can do damage to specific locations of the body over short or long timescales, depending on these rates and the half-life of the isotope. For example, iodine-131 is accumulated in the thyroid gland and iodine stays in the body for a long time (but note that it only has an 8 day radioactive half-life). It therefore gives a preferential radiation dose to the thyroid, and each organ of the body has a different susceptibility to cancer. The dose standards we use take all of these effects into account for each individual radioactive isotope. Even with this correction to organ-specific dose, we are still extremely far below what one would consider a threshold for heath effects.
The dose from an X-ray or plane flight is different in that it is all-body or large-area dose, and the specific type of radiation may differ from radioactive isotopes. Equivalent dose calculations try to normalize for all of these differences and ultimately quantify the (very small) risk.
As for myself, I will continue to monitor levels from two independent sites, and at this point I am still being completely denied access to the public government EPA radnet site, although I am still recieving updates from other concerned citizens. I have still not made up my mind completely regarding the possibility of a high powered antenna array being active and causing these spikes.
There is a lot of information contained in the original I think something's wrong in North Carolina Thread, and if you have the time you can access these notes from here .
I am not overly concerned for myself, quite frankly as a cancer survivor the gamma radiation treatments and the platinum based chemotherapy have me over the limit anyway, but I would be concerned about infants and pregnant women, if this is radiation per se, and not radio towers that is washing across in constant waves.
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