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I thought this would be something to do with the Chernobyl Fire Dept. |
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I'd buy it. I guess I sort-of did. On e-bay about a year ago I picked myself up a surplus cold war geiger counter (get the one with the wand - the others aren't sensitive enough) just to see the radioactive world around me. Turns out there's a bit of very low level radioactivity, probably from rock formations, near Sonoma, CA (I mapped out my drive to work at the time). |
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I always wanted to mount it under the hood of my car and wire it to a PDA with GPS to be constantly updating a map of radioactivity. An added benefit would be that I'd be the first to know of a nuclear detonation. "The world is ending" could be a red light next to "check engine". |
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I once did a little experiment, at high school. There was a stir in the local paper about radioactive material leaking into the river, that supplied our drinking water, from an abandoned mine. |
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I tested the river water against bottled water (control 1) and against fresh rainwater (control 2). The river water was the least radioactive, by about 8-10%, on each of the twelve consecutive days I ran the test. |
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There's a debate going on in the US about testing 100% of incoming containers for radioctivity and other agents. I'm all for it, but the money is mind boggling. |
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