Radioactive Fallout in Saint Louis Missouri (tested video)

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I just came across this video, Can anyone tell me what the readings mean in this video? Thanks Guys

reply to post by Bronco51082


same here..I am sitting here 3 hrs south!! .228 is what it ended up with soaking wet paper towel!

Oh man!

Not good at all!

reply to post by Bronco51082


You have real reason to worry about radioactive poisoning, there has been a big mishap across the pond.
Well kind of anyway.
People in Japan are not dropping like flies and they are at ground zero.
So when folks over there start dropping like flies, that will be an indicator of sorts.
Remember all o dat radioactive goo still has to cross the pond, which is the worlds biggest kelp farm.

Yeah I live In K.C 4 hrs West of STL

reply to post by cheri2012


So you live out there by New Madrid?

According to the guy's blog post about the video he was picking up .228 mR/hour, which is millirads per hour. Even without knowing what type of radiation it is, that is still a very, very low amount of radiation.

Without giving you a lesson about radiation (if you want one, you can read my thread about it) we're going to assume that it's alpha radiation, given that 1. he does not have radiation burns on his skin, eliminating the possibility that it's beta radiation, and 2. the radiation is not detectable where he was standing away from the car, eliminating the possibility that it's gamma radiation.

After some math, .228 mR of radiation turns into 45.6 microsieverts. Sounds like a freaky number, right? Not really. It is a lot above background radiation, but the threshold for clinical radiation sickness begins at around .5 to 1 sievert, or 500 thousand to 1 million microsieverts. It probably isn't even enough radiation to make the guy more likely to get cancer, even if he rubbed the paper towel all over his body. He could probably even chew on it lol.

So, tl;dr, what the video means is that a very, very ridiculously small amount of radiation has rained down upon St. Louis. Not enough to kill anybody, even from cancer.

reply to post by nithaiah


That was helpful thanks for the response

reply to post by nithaiah


Thanks for this clarification