{"id":23,"date":"2011-03-26T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardwiki.dyndns.org\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-03-27T01:20:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T08:20:42","slug":"scanning-for-radiation-week-1-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastlizard4.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/scanning-for-radiation-week-1-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning for Radiation: Week 1 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing <a title=\"Scanning for Radiation\" href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/scanning-for-radiation\/\">last week&#8217;s post<\/a> regarding scanning for evidence of radiation from Japan&#8217;s Fukushima nuclear power plants reaching my area, Southern California in the U.S.:<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in my haste to leave school Friday, I completely forgot to copy the new data file from the experimental computer to my flash drive. \u00a0Which means I can&#8217;t properly analyze the data, or even have a copy of the data at hand to reference as I&#8217;m writing this. \u00a0<em>Fail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh well. \u00a0But, what I can tell you is that, based on what I remember from glancing over the data at school, there has been no marked increase in background radiation levels at all; in fact, if anything, the amount of background radiation has <em>decreased<\/em>. \u00a0This could be due to the two rainstorms that moved through the area over the last week, which would have washed radiation out of the air.<\/p>\n<p>According to the media, where radiation has been detected, for example in Seattle, Washington, the increased levels are still far too low to cause any harm; indeed, if you live on the western coast of the United States, you&#8217;d probably get more radiation due to living within 50 miles (80.47 kilometers) of a coal-fired power plant than you will from Fukushima, assuming you get <em>any<\/em> from Fukushima.<\/p>\n<p>On that subject,\u00a0Randall Munroe\u00a0of the <a title=\"xkcd\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\" target=\"_blank\">xkcd webcomic<\/a> recently published <a title=\"Radiation Dose Chart\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/radiation\" target=\"_blank\">a chart comparing various doses of radiation<\/a>, including releases from Fukushima and Chernobyl (hint: there are several orders of\u00a0magnitude\u00a0separating the two accidents).<\/p>\n<p>So, to summarize my results of this experiment so far: Unless you live in Japan in the immediate area of the nuclear reactors, I wouldn&#8217;t worry about a thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-23\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/fastlizard4.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/scanning-for-radiation-week-1-update\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-23\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/fastlizard4.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/scanning-for-radiation-week-1-update\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Scanning%20for%20Radiation%3A%20Week%201%20Update&body=http%3A%2F%2Ffastlizard4.org%2Fblog%2F2011%2F03%2F26%2Fscanning-for-radiation-week-1-update%2F&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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