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Geiger
Counter Purchase and Info
30
December, 2013
I've
just been reminded by John in Detroit via RadCast email, that I had
said back on Dec. 11 that I would bring you info regarding meters.
Thank you John. Here it is.
First,
I would like to let you know that RadCast has discount coupons for
the Inspector Alert meter through Medcom International. This is a
fine meter and one that I, along with many of my teachers, use. There
are other meters that are also really good though I have no discount
coupons for those. I will talk about them after.
If
you are interested in getting a meter, and I strongly suggest and
hope you do, contact me at info@radcast.org for more information. I
cannot talk about the price here, but I can tell you that they are
between $550.00 and 565.00. So if you are ready to purchase one, let
me know. Otherwise please wait so that I am not inundated with your
letters telling me you are not ready. I will assume so until I hear
that you are.
Why
get a meter? Some folks have heard me say that you will soon need a
meter far more than you or the Earth will need a car. When you hear
that it is 30 CPM (counts per minute) in North Portland, OR and 25
CPM 17 miles away in Powell Butte, OR do you have any idea of what
the rads are in between? No? Well, neither do we. Our geiger
counters, the good ones only, pick up very very little of radiation
decay, the stuff that make your meter click click click when it
touches the monitor. I only know what is going on at exactly the spot
of my meter.
Radiation
decay is RANDOM. It does not follow a law or method or any particular
path. Yes, rads do travel. And yes, we know what to "look"
for regarding wind and jetstream and nuclear fission events. And yes,
they decay. But while we know where to look for them in general, it
is only as an abstract idea since we cannot see them. So with our
meters turned on, we wait for the decay to hit the meter instead. You
can certainly up the ante by walking near a leaking nuclear plant for
instance, but I would never suggest such a thing!
Every
house has its own radiation background level depending on what is in
it (granite countertops, camping lanterns(!), certain kinds of
clocks) and also determined by what that house is sitting on (radon,
etc). So my background level is NOT necessarily your background
level. And we must know our background levels first and always, no
matter where we test. (More about that in a protocol blog---John,
prepare to remind me to post that in the future! I'm sure I'll
forget!) Now remember that rad decay is random. So what I find at my
house is different from your house. Why do we care? Because the more
houses that test on one block, the more houses in a neighborhood, the
more houses in a city, the more we can understand the average dose of
fallout coming from either Japan or from any of the 99 nuclear plants
left running in the US. And you too Canada! And you too Europe! But
not you Germany! You're already on the right path(Germany has created
a law with deadlines to shut down all 17 nuclear reactors by 2022.)
And definitely you, Japan!!!
We
all need to help each other to understand what is falling from the
sky into our food and lives, together! Only together can we gain
understanding about this.
A
geiger counter won't save you from death. Nothing will. We will all
die at some point, right? But it will guide you in life. And not just
you. Your kids. Your animals. If you know that radiation is high on
any particular day, you can tell your kids not to play soccer. It's a
drag for them, but life saving in the long run. If it's raining hot
rads, you can make sure your dog isn't out too long to do her thing
and you can wash her off when she comes in. This comes into a
discussion on mitigation...John! You know what to do!)
Now
do you understand a bit more about why you should get a meter? And a
good one? Getting a less functional meter means you pick up less than
the small amount we pick up from good meters. Why would you want to
do that? You buy a car with a spectrometer you trust which tells you
how fast you are going. So buy a meter whose mechanics you can trust
to tell you how many rads are decaying near you. I'm serious. Very
serious.
So
we can give you a coupon for the Inspector Alert. But the Mazur
PRM-9000 is a fabulous meter too. There are others, but I would
really recommend these 2. Of the Inspectors, the Plus is really good
as well but again, I do not have a coupon for that one. But it makes
it no less good!
I
don't know yet if I will list more meters here or not, as I have a
lot of trust in these I have mentioned. If so, I will add more to
this list.
Be
well. Stay out of the rain (until you get your meter!) and Happy New
Year to you. May we have many many more. All of us on Earth.
Mimi
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