0.27 microSv/h from snow in Saint Louis

They measured 0.27 microSv/h (0.027 mR/h) from the first snow in Saint Louis .

In case it contains Cs-137, it may be 746 Bq/Kg roughly calculating.

The recorder states like this below:

Typically it is difficult to measure the radioactivity of snow because its water content tends to attenuate the measurements;. However, one interesting effect we have noticed is that during active snowfalls indoor atmospheric radioactive readings tend to elevate above 2x background radiation.

  1. Mochizuki,

    What’s with the large font on the right side of the pages? They bleed off the side of the page of my lowly 15″ LED.

    By the way, I come to your blog first, as much of Enews is a reiteration of your posts. Thank you.

    And I’ve a poem for you, written in March, in hope that you’ve found your refuge in this crazy world.

    Lost Refuges

    Where are the refuges now,
    the mountains, deep forests,
    vast oceans and deserts,
    difficult places given to the holy and outlaw?

    In undefiled places seers, prophets, and saints;
    desperate seekers, sinners and the ostracized
    respectively expose themselves to their god
    or live hidden with themselves.
    These places have gone to vulgarity.

    The heart of Nature gives to all without discrimination.
    In the unimaginable depth of time
    she offers but slight periods of contradiction
    upon which limited faculties focus for lesson.
    The lesson and contradiction have now reached
    the sacred and forsaken refuges by storm.
    Poisons arrive upon the winds.
    What will be taught may not be perceived
    until overwhelmed.

    While the ultimate refuge
    may be guiltless heart and spirit,
    the comfort of Nature’s resolve
    seems meant to be with us on the journey.
    She teaches of the ultimate god,
    gives examples of humility
    in orbital, galactic, universal expression;
    in atomic and quantum resolve.
    Time is seen,
    yet unseen,
    unmeasured and eternal,
    all-powerful, undemanding, and gentle.
    Its prophet is the ever-present
    nurture of our physical manifestation
    within the general manifestation.

    Why separate the spirit and the mass?
    When our hearts need comfort,
    require suspension of limits in unity of pure spirit,
    nature provided
    and one could come through the experience
    alive and well.
    The poison imposes discrimination,
    defaults to those who find
    the difficulties of resource and loneliness
    the product of the need to be hidden;
    those to whom exposure is less acceptable
    than mistaken radioactive logic.

  2. That makes sense because the snowflakes are not only all over roofs but throughout the air in all directions around a house.

    I noticed this in southern Missouri, too, with the recent 2 inch snowfall. .01 to .03 mR/hour was the range, with .l0 about background and .03 the peak spikes. Indoors activity picked up was a little higher than outdoors.

    I wonder two things:
    1) What’s going on at Fort Calhoun, is anybody close to there taking readings. You can’t trust the NRC or EPA or federal government or news media.
    2) Is Carbon 14 responsible for the slight radioactivity of rain and snow?

    1. .01, not .10, sorry

      And, when snowflakes are throughout the air falling, if it has radioactivity, it would make sense the background gamma would be higher.

      One has to wonder, considering the lying of the nuclear industry, and those super rich people who own a bit if not controlling interest in just about everything, are not the manufacturers of survey meters which undermeasure radioactivity.

        1. JT, I do believe the snowy air has more radiation.

          A few months ago, here in the Midwest, my throat was hurting (more of an irritated throat) when I was outside while it was snowing. When I would go inside somewhere, it settled down and started hurting when I was out in the snow again. I don’t keep track anymore, but I don’t notice it if there are only a few flurries. (Not a lot snow lately.)

          The snow is definitely not safe.

  3. The disaster is now to a point where reporting about the little things seems useless. It’s like the Titanic sinking. Once the boat was sunk reporting on the odd piece of flotsam that makes shore is so ho-hum.

    Nothing will ever be as exciting or horrendous as those few days after the reactor melt-outs and we all know that. So coming here daily to read about say, the death of one or two people is sadly, becoming routine and nothing of magnitude.

  4. We measured similar levels here in Tokyo last night when it snowed. However this is not Cesium – the half-life was around 30 minutes and after a few hours it measured background. Most likely this is caused by natural occurring Radon gas that get’s trapped in the snow when it snows.

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