Your Radiation This Week No 43

Have a wonderful radioactive weekend

February 6, 2016 to February 13, 2016

(San Francisco) February 13, 2016 – Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week.” These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States.

RADIATION CPM* CITY STATE
Listed in Counts per Minute, a Count is One Radioactive Decay Registered by the Instrument.

The Mojave Desert

The highest radiation reporting city is listed first, the least radioactive city reporting is listed last. Still, all reporting cities are above normal. These are the American cities that exceeded 1,000 CPM this week.

Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. [4]

COUNT AMOUNT TIMES NORMAL CITY, STATE TYPE OF RAD
1,652 CPM, 330.4 Times Normal, Bakersfield, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,562 CPM, 312.4 Times Normal, Miami, FL. Beta, Gamma.
1,399 CPM, 279.8 Times Normal, Spokane, WA. Beta, Gamma.
1,293 CPM, 258.6 Times Normal, Grand Junction, CO. Beta, Gamma.
1,277 CPM, 255.4 Times Normal, Little Rock, AR. Beta, Gamma.
1,232 CPM, 246.4 Times Normal, Raleigh, NC. Beta, Gamma.
1,179 CPM, 235.8 Times Normal, Colorado Springs, CO. Beta, Gamma.
1,175 CPM, 235 Times Normal, El Paso, TX. Beta, Gamma.
1,163 CPM, 232.6 Times Normal, Yuma, AZ. Beta, Gamma.
1,152 CPM, 230.4 Times Normal, San Diego, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,136 CPM, 227.2 Times Normal, Tucson, AZ. Beta, Gamma.
1,120 CPM, 224 Times Normal, Louisville, KY. Beta, Gamma.
1,089 CPM, 217.8 Times Normal, Portland, ME. Beta, Gamma.
1,053 CPM, 210.6 Times Normal, St George, UT. Beta, Gamma.
1,050 CPM, 210 Times Normal, Phoenix, AZ. Beta, Gamma.
1,034 CPM, 206.8 Times Normal, Billings, MT. Beta, Gamma.
1,034 CPM, 206.8 Times Normal, Reno, NV. Beta, Gamma.
1,021 CPM, 204.2 Times Normal, Idaho Falls, ID. Beta, Gamma.
1,021 CPM, 204.2 Times Normal, Riverside, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,019 CPM, 203.8 Times Normal, Fresno, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,018 CPM, 203.6 Times Normal, Champaign, IL Beta, Gamma.

Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. [4]

 

The Count

Twenty-one (21) cities exceed 1,000 CPM. There are Thirteen (13) cities between 900 and 999 CPM.

Have a wonderful radioactive weekend and remember to Dodge the Rads, it’s dangerous out there.

Copyright by Bob Nichols @ 2016. Reproduce and distribute, give full attribution to Bob Nichols.


Notes and Sources

1. The Radiation charts and graphs of the EPA at http://www2.epa.gov/radnet Individual queries can be built at the EPA RadNet Query Builder. Don’t skip the “2” in www2.

2. The EPA based reporting of www.NETC.com an LLC.

3. * This station’s Radiation equals combined Beta and Gamma Radiation. Note: Not all locations report Beta Radiation. Gamma Radiation Monitors are reporting publicly at all these locations.

4. Reference: Digilert 100 Flyer pdf, “Normal background is 5-20 CPM.” http://keison.co.uk/seinternational_digilert100.shtmlCopyright @ 2015 Keison International Ltd – All Rights Reserved.


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Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winner, a correspondent for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to various online publications. He reports on war, politics and the two nuclear weapons labs in the Bay Area. Nichols is writing a book based on 20 years of nuclear war in Central Asia. He is a former employee of an Army Ammunition Plant. You are encouraged to write Nichols at duweapons@gmail.com