Your Radiation This Week No 44

The highest radiation reporting city is listed first, the least radioactive city reporting is listed last.

 

February 13 to February 20, 2016

(San Francisco) February 20, 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.

Ash Meadows Nevada

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 TIMES NORMAL CITY, STATE TYPE OF RAD
1,501 CPM, 312.4 Times Normal, Miami, FL. MIA 5 Yr High
1,405 CPM, 281 Times Normal, Yuma, AZ. Beta, Gamma.
1,,385 CPM, 277 Times Normal, Little Rock, AR. Beta, Gamma.
1,369 CPM, 273.8 Times Normal, Grand Junction, CO. Beta, Gamma.
1,339 CPM, 267.8 Times Normal, Colorado Springs, CO. Beta, Gamma.
1,335 CPM, 267 Times Normal, El Paso, TX. Beta, Gamma.
1,288 CPM, 257.6 Times Normal, Louisville, KY. Beta, Gamma.
1,287 CPM, 257.4 Times Normal, Spokane, WA. Beta, Gamma.
1,257 CPM, 251.4 Times Normal, San Diego, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,198 CPM, 239.6 Times Normal, Fresno, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,166 CPM, 233.2 Times Normal, Billings, MT. Beta, Gamma.
1,161 CPM, 232.2 Times Normal, Raleigh, NC. Beta, Gamma.
1,149 CPM, 229.8 Times Normal, Memphis, TN. Beta, Gamma.
1,136 CPM, 227.2 Times Normal, Tucson, AZ. Beta, Gamma.
1,107 CPM, 221.4 Times Normal, Anaheim, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,090 CPM, 218 Times Normal, Bakersfield, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,076 CPM, 215.2 Times Normal, Idaho Falls, ID. Beta, Gamma.
1,053 CPM, 210.6 Times Normal, Los Angeles, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,046 CPM, 209.2 Times Normal, Denver, CO. Beta, Gamma.
1,036 CPM, 207.2 Times Normal, Riverside, CA. Beta, Gamma.
1,006 CPM, 201.2 Times Normal, Laredo, TX. 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