GAMMA RADIATION IN AMERICA

This stuff does NOT go away!

Your Radiation This Week – September 10, 2022 

Welcome to old hands and newbies alike.

 

I’ve written about radiation topics for 50 years and published my thoughts and current RadNet data for 22 years.

 

All data is collected, checked and verified by a federal government agency, RadNet, https://radnet.epa.gov/radnet-public/query.do

 

Any errors or omissions are my own.

 

This paper deals with human death and illness and is not recommended for children. If you are over 18 years of age, you are on your own.

 

Bob Nichols

Writer

GAMMA RADIATION IN AMERICA

 

City, State

 

CPM Jan 1 – June 2, 2022

 

CPM 2010 to 12/31/2021

Billings, MT. 50,505,217 898,205,091
Raleigh, NC. 49,782,770 968,311,529
Colorado Springs, CO. 48,602,858 967,590,809
Augusta, GA. 48,213,921 720,016,650
Little Rock. AR. 48,174,629 868,586,549
Worcester, MA. 42,732,590 795,305,400
New York City, NY. 42,059,488 521,686,232
Portland, ME. 41,990,064 828,020,382
Fresno, CA. 39,602,008 639,800,787
Miami, FL. 39,159,004 504,112,627
San Bernardino, CA. 38,304,888 617,800,100
Lockport, NY. 38,232,388 420,988,050
Providence, RI. 38,214,635 541,627,792
Spokane, WA. 37,996,505 724,924,229
Navajo Lake, NM. 37,728,381 721,982,046
Boston, MA. 36,535,433 558,669,411
San Diego, CA. 35,998,410 708,237,512
Carlsbad, NM. 35,689,974 408,558,820
Albuquerque, NM. 35,362,955 584,280,597
Anaheim, CA. 34,998,224 559,258,590
Idaho Falls, ID. 34,718,454 654,837,764
Louisville, KY. 34,562,031 553,561,620
Phoenix, AZ. 34,534,067 603,008,168
Oklahoma City, OK. 34,516,373 549,033,630
Grand Junction, CO. 34,232,104 644,048,867
Houston, TX. 34,042,673 318,292,590
Casper, WY. 33,455,457 421,854,049
Hartford, CT. 33,000,985 598,721,812
Tucson, AZ. 32,364,215 606,005,450
Amarillo, TX. 32,112,084 456,670,077
Virginia Beach, VA. 31,693,641 488,547,760
Atlanta, GA. 31,371,194 597,001,708
Pittsburgh, PA. 30,311,771 501,886,672
Pierre, SD. 29,998,308 548,817,294
Concord, NH. 29,585,207 589,138,791
Boise, ID. 29,058,458 428,391,770
Bakersfield, CA. 28,901,030 520,483,004
Tallahassee, FL. 28,720,317 485,605,987
Yuma, AZ. 28,547,715 520,141,612
Laredo, TX. 28,200,772 489,533,349
Lincoln, NE. 27,909,897 453,180,019
Reno, NV. 27,800,023 532,487,229
Riverside, CA. 27,474,328 584,280,597
Mason City, IA. 26,977,365 506,997,489
Champaign, IL. 26,972,882 391,601,742
Omaha, NE. 26,682,395 429,108,483
Kearney, NE. 26,524,911 504,895,813
Rapid City, SD. 26,330,904 481,555,874
Denver, CO. 25,987,542 609,964,180
Harrisonburg, VA. 25,918,000 481,059,852
Richland, WA. 25,905,332 448,015,163
Memphis, TN. 25,824,560 453,329,490
El Paso, TX. 25,552,814 519,658,909
Birmingham, AL. 25,548,185 374,453,764
Richmond, VA. 25,526,925 399,201,576
Shreveport, LA. 25,069,388 481,059,852
Knoxville, TN. 24,798,932 408,471,644
Detroit, MI. 24,620,229 407,454,382
Bismarck, ND. 24,564,291 454,880,063
San Jose, CA. 24,529,541 371,273,906
Des Moines, IA. 24,514,340 362,653,811
Charleston, WV. 24,452,999 478,848,906
Los Angeles. CA. 24,310,152 572,060,972
Chicago, IL. 24,078,263 364,856,570
Ft Smith, AR. 23,992,412 443,771,509
Rochester, NY 23,562,539 526,432,075
Ft. Worth, TX. 23,557,648 410,153,200
Philadelphia, PA. 23,555,364 378,466,627
Wichita, KS. 23,298,625 459,524,093
Madison, WI. 23,123,530 391,852,015
Lexington, KY, 22,989,392 471,240,706
Washington, D.C. 22,982,927 275,921,134
St. George, UT. 22,697,464 436,627,082
Mobile, AL. 22,633,060 198,094,481
Cleveland, OH. 21,863,400 434,795,388
Salt Lake City, UT. 21,562,060 438,114,894
San Francisco, CA. 21,559,854 365,616,704
Aurora, IL. 21,359,894 364,322,111
Burlington, VT. 20,823,189 345,071,323
Las Vegas, NV. 20,629,466 342,649,011
Tulsa, OK. 20,016,612 448,015,130
Kansas City, KS. 19,568,065 489,089,828
Dallas, TX. 19,419,850 307,241,260
St. Louis, MO. 19,339,407 303,941,602
Indianapolis, IN. 18,817,880 341,036,725
Baton Rouge, LA. 18,655,899 314,904,996
San Antonio, TX. 18,585,211 263,294,090
Corpus Christi, TX. 18,285,924 336,507,218
Duluth, MN. 18,253,353 296,098,681
Eureka, CA. 18,114,335 361,959,457
Tampa, FL. 17,226,263 263,294,090
Paducah, KY. 17,073,924 181,438,927
Nashville, TN. 16,325,891 269,469,195
Yaphank, NY. 15,578,471 287,518,344
St. Paul, MN. 15,089,221 368,408,848
Fairbanks, AK. 12,669,651 220,859,905
Anchorage, AK. 10,758,338 171,820,786

 

Sources, Notes and Recommended Readings

1. The Radiation charts and graphs of the EPA. Individual queries can be built at the EPA RadNet Query Builder
2. The EPA based reporting of NETC dot com, an LLC.
3. These stations’ Radiation equals Total Gamma Radiation. Gamma Radiation Monitors are reporting publicly at all these locations. CPM. “Although we can’t see it, taste it, smell it or hear it we can measure radiation and observe its effects. One way to measure radiation which the United States Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] has chosen to use on its radiation websites is in Counts Per Minute or CPM. Each Count is One Radioactive Decay.” Quote from the ‘Your Radiation This Week’ Apr 3, 2015
4. Radiation destruction of chitin, IAEA, by Ershov, B.G.; Sukhov, N.L.; Nud’ga, L.A.; Baklagina, Yu.G.; Kozhevnikova, L.G.; Petropavlovskii, G.A. (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow (Russian Federation)
5. “Plutonium Air” by Dr Paolo Scampa, AIPRI Blog, Aug 19, 2016
6. “Radioactive Fertilizer,” AIPRI by Dr Paolo Scampa, September 23, 2016, AIPRI: Les engrais radioactifs,
7. “Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds,” By ABBY GOODNOUGH OCT. 19, 2016,
8. EPA Proposal Allows Radiation Exposure in Drinking Water Equivalent to 250 Chest X-Rays a Year
“Forty-five (45) years later, the Nuclear States officially raise the amounts of “permitted radiation levels” by hundreds and sometimes thousands of times to maintain the utter and absolute dominance of the Nuclear State over everything, everywhere, for all time. No tolerance is given.”
9. “Baghdad” by Dr. Paolo Scampa, AIPRI, Saturday 12 November 2016
10. “News Release, New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California, ” USDA Office of Communications, “This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million,”
11. Caribou herd in Alaska suffering from mysterious decline, November 30, 2016, Noel Kirkpatrick, MNN Mother Nature Network, “The Central Arctic caribou herd in Alaska is experiencing a “steep decline” in its population, and scientists are researching the reasons why () .”
12. “Facing a Dying Nation,” a line from the 1979 Tribal Rock Musical HAIR. A scene with “Facing a Dying Nation” starring Treat Williams from the movie is here: The character Pfc. Berger is KIA in Vietnam in 1968.
13. It is Eugen Wigner’s name as a Verb. It’s about all things Wignerized. See Notes on Your Radiation This Week No. 69 and 70
14. sie·vert, ˈsēvərt/, noun Physics, noun: sievert; plural noun: sieverts; symbol: Sv, the SI unit of dose equivalent (the biological effect of ionizing radiation), equal to an effective dose of a joule of energy per kilogram of recipient mass. Google: Sievert
15. Eco Health Alliance interactive map of killer viruses – map
16. “In [a] first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster,” by Daisuke Kikuchi, “Maebashi, Gunma Pref. In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster,”
17. Uranium Stocks, “Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power,” Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at 10:04 PM, “Westinghouse Electric Company, which helped drive the development of nuclear energy and the electric grid itself, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, casting a shadow over the global nuclear industry.
18. Black Star shows tracks of Alpha particles in an Apes lung much like yours. Plutonium particle in lung tissue: “The black star in the middle of this picture shows the tracks made by alpha rays emitted from a particle of plutonium-239 in the lung tissue of an ape. The alpha rays do not travel very far, but once inside the body, they can penetrate more than 10,000 cells within their range. This set of alpha tracks (magnified 500 times) occurred over a 48-hour period” (Robert Del Tredici, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb [1987], plate 39). 19
19. “De la guerre nucléaire” Maurice, E. ANDRE, nuclear officer (NBCR or nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological exclusive function) Captain Commander, retired. Addendum by Dr. Paolo Scampa.
20. University of Arkansas disposes of wastewater
21. Banner picture by the NY Times. Fire
22. Total Gamma Radiation – Year to Date 2017.7 November 18, 2017, VeteransToday. Here.
23. 30-year-old radioactive dead tree at Chernobyl. Very dead. Very radioactive, like millions of others there and around the world. https://outoftheboxscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Chernobyl-Dead-Trees-Photo-By-Beatrice-Lundborg
24. Amusing Planet, VIP observers watching the spectacle during Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll, 1951. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2008/07/how-to-watch-nuclear-explosion.html 
25.  Al Gore Lied, The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lowers the Boom on Al Gore’s Big Lie that the humble, beneficial gas – CO2 – causes global warming https://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/06/28/al-gore-lied/
26. Did you ever think how much Rad U235 or Rad Plutonium 239 is vaporized in a detonation of a nuclear weapon? Bob Nichols, June 11, 2017. Very little, actually.   https://yourradiationthisweek.org/2017/06/11/did-you-ever-think-how-much-rad-u235-or-rad-plutonium-239-is-vaporized-in-a-detonation-of-a-nuclear-weapon/
27. CPM or Counts per Minute is the radiation measuring system used by RadNet, a directorate of the EPA.
28. See the Wind flow! “This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.” FERNANDA VIÉGAS MARTIN WATTENBERG, See the moving map showing the wind. http://hint.fm/wind/
29. MILLION A WEEK CLUB No 6 – California’s Boosted Fires, By Bob Nichols, December  2017 https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/12/30/million-a-week-club-no-6-californias-boosted-fires
30. YOUR RADIATION THIS WEEK – Nichols on Nuclear – Library of Articles https://yourradiationthisweek.org/nichols-on-nuclear-library-of-articles/
31. Actual Beta radiation collected by RadNet in 2006 was 7,380,489,546.384977 CPM for Washington, D.C. See RadNet. Same address as Note No. 1.
32. Satellite view of annual Uranium boosted fires in California in November 2018.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-122.46,39.53,3000https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-122.46,39.53,3000

33. Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts, http://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/pubs/2003/3508-chernobyl.pdf “However, one year after the accident a storm resuspended deposited radioactivity in the exclusion zone [around the smashed reactor,] and the radioactivity of air in the exclusion zone in the Pripiat city increased by a factor of 1,000 and reached 300 Bq.m.-3. Fires in the forests have also lead to the increases of radioactivity.”

“In 1992, in the vicinity of the exclusion zone, radiation due to forest fires reached 20 Bq.m-3 for beta emitters and 70 mBq.m-3 from plutonium isotopes. Monitoring stations far from these zones registered some peaks of radioactivity.”

Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winner, a former 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 years of nuclear war in Central Asia. He is a former employee of an Army Ammunition Plant.

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