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Kauai Radiation Monitors Detect Possible
Fukushima Fallout
http://www.emfnews.org
June 24, 2011
By Tim Flanegin
Yesterday, June 22nd, our network’s Monitoring
Station on the island of Kauai,
within the Hawaiian island chain, broadcast yet another Radiation
Alert over the Network, at 8:08 A.M. local
time – a 3 minute surge of 209,
456, and 186 CPM (Counts per Minute)
respectively, accompanied by a generally elevated level
leading up to that, and followed by another blip at 2:52
P.M.
The Kauai station indicates it was raining at the time,
so we believe the precipitation brought down Fukushima
fallout from the atmosphere.
This detection follows a similar, sustained elevated
radiation level from the Kauai station on June 10th. Other
than this, since the nuclear disaster in Japan, the stations
on our Network that we believe to have detected Fukushima
radiation in significant and noticeable levels have been
limited to a couple of high altitude stations in Colorado,
and an obvious one in Japan itself.
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So the question is, “What
is so special about the Kauai station?“. In
answer, I think we what have here is “the
perfect storm“:
- First, of all
the US stations on our network, Kauai
is about the closest to Japan, some
3,500 miles away (Anchorage, AK is, too). And as
mentioned before, within the Hawaiian chain, Kauai is
the “remote outpost” farthest north and west toward
Japan, as compared to our stations on Maui and the Big
Island. Having said this, while proximity is
important, weather patterns are of at least equal
importance when considering radiation fallout.
- The Kauai
station, situated on the north shore in
the community of Princeville, is in a very
rainy place, getting about 60 to
80 inches per year. Some other parts of the island are
in a rain shadow.
- The radiation
detector on the Kauai station is an external probe
model, and the wand itself is mounted outdoors,
protected under the overhanging eaves of the structure,
but readily available to ”sniff” the air, which in this
case is often quite wet and occasionally contaminated,
apparently.
- The Geiger-Mueller
tube used in the probe is of the
same pancake design as in the Inspector line of
instruments, with a nominal 2″ diameter, finished out
with a thin mica end window, categorizing this as
an ultra-sensitive Geiger counter capable of
detecting low levels of Alpha and Beta radiation, along
with Gamma radiation.
So there is your “perfect storm” – in relatively
close proximity,
amidst a rainy
environment, set up for
outdoor monitoring,
and using an
ultra-sensitive detector.
The next order of business is to place additional
monitoring stations around Kauai, in both high rainfall and
rain shadow areas to provide confirming readings and to test
out some of the theories offered above. We also need to
correlate detections with weather patterns and movements of
the jet stream, combined with any verifiable “releases” of
radiation from Fukushima.
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