Fukushima

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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Originally posted by Rob Tucker

get your own Geiger Counter and let us know when it wakes you at night.

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That's not really as far fetched as it sounds. When I lived on Maui back during the first Gulf War, I had a friend who formerly worked for the NRC. As a hobby, he had a radiation detector outside connected to his computer, tracking radiation levels. One day when I visited him, he started scrolling through several months of bar graphs. All of the readings were within a similar range, and then, all of a sudden, went through the roof. I asked "what happened there?" He showed me the date, and it was shortly after the Gulf War started. I asked him if he knew what caused it, but at the time he had no idea. Later, when it was discovered that our army used depleted uranium tipped shells to penetrate Iraqi tank armor, it was determined that the depleted uranium vaporized on impact with the tanks, and went into the atmosphere. Some days/weeks later that passed over Hawaii.

Although those recorded levels were high, I don't believe they were unsafe, as my friend didn't pack up his equipment and retreat to a secret underground bunker.
And it also wasn't dangerous, as I'm still here to tell you about it.
But it might have been one of those things that go click in the night - - if a Geiger Counter was nearby.