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St. Louis raining Fukushima hot particles: Radiation 178 times normal
Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner
Heeding nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen's call to monitor and share radiation data, a St. Louis citizen reporter has demonstrated with a Geiger counter on Saturday that background radiation in St. Louis Missouri was 178 times normal after the rainout according to ENEWS. Gundersen predicted that as Japan burns contaminated materials, radiation levels in the United States and Canada would escalate in rainouts for another year.
"St. Louis rain sample shows radiation dose on August 20 almost triple previous high reading," ENEWS reported Sunday.
At approximately 10:20 a.m. Saturday, August 20, in St. Louis Missouri, the reading from a citizen reporter in a vehicle driven approximately four miles through the trailing edges of a thunderstorm returned a reading of 1.786 mR/hr, equating to 178 times greater than normal background radiation. (See embedded Youtube on this page left.)
"This reading is almost three times greater than are previous high reading of 62x background radiation," stated the reporter who is posting radiation readings on potrblog.com ("Pissin' On The Roses").
Friday, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear, the regulatory watchdog over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and nuclear power industry, Paul Gunter stated that, due to the media blackout of Fukushima and its fallout in the United States, "We're really dependent on indymedia these days."
Naming shows like Russia Today, blogs and Youtube, Gunter said, "These are where news on Fukushima breaks first."
Arnie Gundersen recently explained that citizen reporters are needed to help collect radiation data after rainouts.
A "rainout is when a radioactive cloud passes over an area and, due to a coincidental rainstorm, the hot particles get dropped on the soil," and that the United states was "going to see another year of these rainouts," he explained.
On August 14, Dupré reported in the article, "Radiating Americans with Fukushima rain, food: Clinton's secret pact," that "Government agreed to downplay Fukushima radiation":
"Fukushima is far from stabilized according to energy advisor veteran with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience, Arnie Gundersen who told Solar IMG Saturday that Americans, not just in the northwest, are unaware of being rained on with Fukushima nuclear hot particles and eating Fukushima contaminated food because the US government has deliberately minimized the catastrophe, partially due to a pact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed with Japan."Gundersen, with a team of other scientists, intends to prove government statements about Fukushima are false." (http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-wit...)
Gundersen is a former nuclear industry senior vice president who earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in nuclear engineering, who holds a nuclear safety patent, and was a licensed reactor operator.
Burning contaminated materials results in what Gundersen referred to as "kicking the can."
"The Japanese are allowing the contaminated material to be burned as long as it's less than 7000 Becquerels. What they're also allowing is, if you have a high concentration material and a low concentration material, you can average those two out."
"The radioactive contaminated material being burned in one prefecture in Japan goes into the neighboring prefecture and contaminates it.
"It eventually ends up into the Pacific Northwest, either into B.C., Oregon, Washington or California. The process of burning the radioactive material means they're kicking the can down the road."
To help Gundersen's work with scientists to "definitively prove what the government health officials say is wrong" as he he stated, he called for public assistance.
"He said that, "now with lots of citizens having Geiger counters," they can help with the new study by wiping a surface one meter by one meter with a cloth after a rainout, and placing that cloth under the Geiger counter."If you get a positive reading on the cloth, I'd like to see the cloth," he said.
Gundersen advises people who are taking samples to note the location and time the sample was taken, as the citizen reporter has done in St. Louis.
The samples need to be wrapped in a triple layer of foil before mailing it to Gundersen's organization, Fairwinds.
Alexander Higgins is among citizen reporters in the United States who is rallying to provide accurate radiation monitoring data to Americans with an interactive website clearly showing maps with charts of radiation levels across the country.
Aug. 21, 2011