In the late '80's early '90's I did a lot of outcrop logging with a gamma-ray scintillometer to produce synthetic GR logs to accompany lithologic descriptions. Our instrument of choice was about the size of shoe box, weighed ~12lbs and ate batteries like crazy. Now I see you with a pocket tool. I'm so jealous.
@@stopredless8447 In layman's terms: That little pocket size machine can do what a backpack size machine did 40 years ago.
@@stopredless8447 Although I am not at all up on nuclear science, I can give you another example that was given to me. A fact that is rather mind-blowing, again to me. There is far more computer memory, punch and power in your smartphone than in the computers NASA astronauts used to fly to the moon and back.
Im still waiting for your channel to blow up. You will get there some day, keep up the hard work! This content is worthy of a lot more subscribers!
Thanks for the encouragement and I’m glad you are enjoying the videos.
Given this video was about Nuclear Fallout I would have avoided the term, “blow up”, but otherwise agree with you.
I am determined to try to set up a collaboration between Drew and Gly from lost and forgotten places. They both have great personalities and they share a love of wonderful production quality. This content deserves to go viral. There was a time when legacy TV would air quality media like this but it seems to be passed now in favour of celebrity reality mogadon for the masses. 😳
Do you know Prince George Utah? The uranium mine waste was taken to Hollywood studio used to fill and grade. People did become sick 😫 first bomb.
For those who don't know, The "Baby tooth study" is a super interesting study into the fallout, and where it settled after the first rounds of nuclear testing
The Chernobyl fallout settled around the alps. Its still forbidden to eat mushrooms from these forrests because radiation has concentrated in there. If a hunter shoots wild boars he has to dispose it as nuclear waste because they love to eat mushrooms.
@@indahooddererste They probably aren't trying to give away a lot of information for those of us who genuinely want to check it out.. i.e.; avoiding spoilers..
I lived in Montana in the early 60s. I remember being warned about radioactive snow.
I love that a lot of the narration was done outdoors at the trail. Not many youtubers do that, instead favoring a studio setup. While studio setups sound great, they feel more sterile.
The more thumbs up the more the system recommends the channel. This guy needs more exposure so click the up thumb on as many comments as you can.
Can you please consider doing an episode on gamma spectroscopy, using your RadiaCode 101 using some of the items that you have in your collection, such as the radium and uranium sources to see how well it works in identifying these known isotopes?
To your point, lots of thyroid cancer in folks from Central Montana that grew up in the 70s. My mom and dad lost friends to it.
@@RadioactiveDrew could be really interesting. The half life of Iodine 131 is only like, 8 days; so that means it only had a couple of weeks to float from the test sites, accumulate, and cause damage. That is of course if the thyroid issues were primarily from I-131. I honestly don't know, just a theory. 👍
I live in a small region in Australia which is known to have been specifically impacted by fallout from a British nuclear test conducted quite distantly (in the late ‘50s) and brought down by heavy rain. It’s not _widely_ known due to secrecy, and the local dairy industry was particularly affected with limited and insufficient quarantining of milk (also very hushed). If spectrographic tools like this are affordable now, I’d be fascinated to do some surveying myself. Some evidence of residual contamination would be helpful in revealing the truth of this awful event to those who were never aware or have forgotten.
Thanks for this short but enlightening presentation.
The Montebello Islands, I learned about it in Biggles who mentions it in "Biggles in Australia"...
Hi, I don’t know if you have heard this, I grew up in St. Louis, MO. I was in 3rd grade in 1959. The school collected our ‘baby teeth’. It turned out they were doing an ‘autopsy’ on us to determine our Cesium 137 exposure. Chemically it looks like calcium, so it ended up in teeth and bones. Kennedy signed a treaty that stopped open air testing in the early’60s. I’m sure that fallout 1,500-2,000 miles down win changed a lot of minds. They didn’t have anything near as nice as your gamma wave detector back then. Back then they didn’t even know that they needed it. (So the story goes)
Cs is more like Na and K as far as mimicking other elements. Those 3 are all in same group in periodic chart.
Almost all of the nuclear weapons tests conducted in the contentental US were in southern Nevada. If you look at your fallout map you can see a path that starts in eastern Idaho. You're probably detecting fallout from the Idaho National Labratory between Arco, Idaho and Idaho Falls. Lots of blown up, melded down reactors out there.
Thank you, for your channel. I've always said these are criminally underrated videos.
There has been meltdowns out at the INL but the contamination from those incidents were extremely localized. So the likelihood of it being from there is extremely low. There have been 16 fallout clouds that have passed over the area I tested. So the likelihood of it being from those Nevada nuclear tests is pretty good.
Thanks for being such a fan of the channel.
@@RadioactiveDrew The actor John Wayne was making a movie, I believe 'The Conqueror' in 1955, in I believe southern Utah, during a Nevada test. He later contracted cancer and swore that the atomic test was the cause of it.
@@RadioactiveDrew In addition, fallout from Fukushima did make it to Montana so some of it could be from that.
The fallout from Fukushima didn’t make it to Montana. The explosion wasn’t nearly powerful enough for that.
@@jackbailey7037 "He later contracted cancer and swore that the atomic test was the cause of it..." Swore, as in a sworn affidavit? And how would he know? He was a life-long chain smoker and developed lung cancer. There are alternative explanations.
Really nice and interesting video. Amazing quality as always. Wouldn't have thought that fallout from such a distance and long time ago.
Same here. But it makes sense based on the half-life of Cs137 and the fallout patterns from that time period.
These videos are helping me out a great deal. You have a gift. You communicate with your audience in a way the average person can understand, follow and find interesting. This may seem somewhat simplistic to you, and you may not even realize you are doing this. But, you are. A lot of people cannot do this.
Thanks. I think it comes from talking to lots of people about this subject.
Just stumbled across this video, have been greatly intetested in anything and everything radiation related, so ofcourse i was very happy indeed to find your channel!
My coffee mug once sent a geiger counter nutter. It was earthenware, made by my great grandmother from West Virginia mountain clay. We suspect one of the glazes used was the culprit, as that same clay made all the old moonshine jugs. More radioactive than my 17 jewel Gruen gold watch radium hands and dial markers.
My parents have a couple of old moonshine earthernware jugs. I'll have to test them next time I'm in the area. They keep them outside as part of the garden decor.
Uranium oxide glaze was a thing bsck in the day, orange in colour. Over here it's quite collectable
@@MrRedeyedJedi The Hatfields still run some stills and they do collect and love her moonshine jugs.
The coffee mug has red and orange bands of color around it. It emits mostly Gamma radiation I guess. I've had it 'since 1969 when she passed away at 103 years old - only because she fell off her roof. I tried yelling at her "What were you doing up on your roof you silly bat?!! She was spicy. "It was leaking and YOU sure weren't nowhere around offerin' to fix it!" So I think I'll keep using her coffee mug with love in honor of her spiciness. radioactivity and all.
Your channel contains awesome content! Love this! Keep it coming!
I love your videos they are so inspiring and i did a school presentation with stuff you teached me. Keep going man!😄
I’m nearly sixty and I still love learning! I sense that you will go far my young friend. Never stop learning!
@@robinwells8879 there is so much to learn and explore with the subject of radiation I feel like I will never stop learning.
I've lived all over that country and never knew this. Thanks for the video.
Wouldn’t have expected this high after more than 6 decades. That map explains some things I experienced in Idaho. The wildlife would set off detectors when they came close to the facility. Then they’d have to be collected (with a 30-06).
Cs-137 for example has a half life of about 30 years and it takes about 10 half lifes for a radioactive source to decay back to background levels. That's 3 centuries.
In any case, after 3 or 4 half lifes we are still looking at high levels. So 1 century is still an health issue - and that is just for Cs137.
Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years. Good luck with that radioactive contaminant in the environment.
I did a paper in the 90's about the continental contamination from above ground nuclear testing. People would be surprised what we did to ourselves!
There's quite a bit of mines, tailings and old possibly government sites back on the "Navajo reservation" Arizona from 1920' - 1970's ish. Where abandoned equipment, waste, and uranium deposits can still be found. If that's interest you.
In the early 60's I took a course in survival in a nuclear incident, and while in the service I actually witnessed a detonation. Your right it's not as risky out there just don't eat off the ground, lol.
Born and raised in Bozeman. Never heard of anything up there being affected. Thank you for sharing this.
“Affected” is being generous, it’s not like the levels are remotely dangerous. Plus all around the Rockies have higher than normal levels of radiation from natural uranium deposits anyway!
78yr old American veteran, living at White Bird, Idaho. Thanks for the information.
Another fascinating find….I enjoy these.
Thanks man. I always like making them as I feel like I get to learn something new in the process.
Been enjoying your outdoor exploring episodes for radioactive materials. Place might be interesting is Colorado near Rulison. Back in the late 60's they did tests with nuclear devices for gas extraction.
UA-cam suggested your channel today, and I’m glad that it did. Fascinating video that captured my attention. Keep it up!!!
As far as a gamma spectrometer goes, the radiacode 101 has pretty poor resolution. It will pick up the spectrum of a smoke detector pretty easily but it's really bad at picking out stuff from uranium ore. It's great as a general purpose meter you can take on trips and keep in your pocket for long term data collection to identify geographic hotspots.
Would you be able to recommend any portable gamma spectrometers for field work? I’ve used energy dispersive x-Ray microanalyzers professionally, but they’re not very portable. Thanks for your consideration.
Good stuff you deserve way more views than what the algorithm is giving you
Thanks. I’m pretty happy with the amount of views I’ve been getting over the last couple days.
Great location and very informative thankyou drew and regards from Scotland to you all on here....fallout is scary but I'm amazed that there's still signs of atomic tests wow bro...wow
I was very surprised to find it as well. I thought I was going to find isotopes of thorium and uranium out there.
That cancer map you showed looks pretty similar to the fallout map that I saw on another channel, where it was said that the USA copped a huge amount of fallout from it’s own weapons testing. Think it was Veritasium talking about FFT’s or Tom Scott’s channel.
The FFT video gets into that? Now I have to watch it. It keeps showing up in my feed, but having watched Numberphile's long FFT video, didn't think Veritasium would have a whole lot of new info.
Nicely done. That Radiacode is a lot cheaper than my home setup, and it travels, very cool.
I would like to get a home setup to run more exact tests. The Radiacode 101 is great for quick and dirty stuff.
The Kodak company new the first nuclear test was done half way across the country when there x ray film got spots on at the factory . Scary shit that they polluted the planet 🌏 back then .
fascinating, Montana.. like all the western states are great places to to hike and explore.. I would love to explore some of the locations in your videos when I retire in 2024 though climbing and hiking is my main interest.. this only adds another interesting detail to think about.
I hope you get to explore Montana one of these days. Just keep an eye out for our Grizzlies.
It's crazy that A-Bomb tours used to be a thing back in the day. People would pay to sit in a spot designated safe and upwind from fallout and watch the bomb go off.
Have been really enjoying your content. I have been interested in radioactive things since my dad gave me a radium dial aircraft timer when I was about 4 years old. He had borrowed a Geiger counter from his physics lab to demonstrate. Looks like I will be upgrading my old Vic Tic pretty soon now that there are cool new data acquisition units like the Radeye
The Radeye is a pretty cool unit and I really like using mine. I wish there was a better option out there to be honest. Support from Thermo Fisher sucks and they make all the accessories so expensive. But having a detector that can do alpha, beta and gamma...dose rates...use energy compensated filters for dose rates and a bunch of other survey meter tasks is pretty handy.
I worked in software development for nuclear detectors early in my career. It's stronger some places then others but you can pick it up anywhere in the world. It just takes a tiny trace amount to produce a signal.
@@celtglen At those levels it would be one chance in many millions. If even that. If you have ever gone outside you have received far far more ionizing radiation from the UV.
I just discovered your channel. I'm hooked.
Atmospheric ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada produced particulate clouds. These clouds of particulates seeded water clouds and produced localized precipitation events that contained high levels of radioactive materials. Particulates became the nuclei of water droplets, which fell as rain, and then sometimes the water portion evaporated before it hit the ground. These events produced particles that were collected and mixed by the water condensation, then as the water evaporated they were gathered together into dust sized particles which eventually settled to the ground.
I just got interested in your channel and I love your videos. They’re super interesting and shed light on a lot of things. I’m just curious, what’s the highest amount of radiation you’ve ever detected in person?
The highest level I’ve ever detected was from a family member that got injected with Tc-99m for imaging. It was crazy how radioactive they were. About 1 mSv/hr of gamma radiation, which is a decent amount to sit next to.
@@RadioactiveDrew That seems terribly excessive for the purposes of biological imaging. Surely modern sensors can achieve perfectly adequate resolution with vastly smaller quantities of radio-tracers/contrasts.
If you ever come to Colorado I'd love to see what you find at the site of the former Rocky Flatts nuclear site. They have opened up much of the site to a wildlife preserve, although I think some small parts of the site are off limits.
I’ve visited the site before and hiked around the perimeter fence. Had some black SUVs watching me off in the distance. I want to go back there and make a proper video about the place.
There’s a sign at the entrance to a hiking trail at Rock Flats explaining the risks (minimal) and reminding people they are going to die of something, someday. Maybe a mountain lion attack. It’s almost poetic.
Great video, Drew (as usual). Would love to see your take on the sources of fallout in the US. I see mentioned in the comments about accidents at various nuclear facilities and that tests were performed in southern Nevada. Are there other locations of interest/concern? And can you fingerprint the fallout down to the facility level (do they even have unique fingerprints?)? Thx!
That would be very difficult to do. But I would imagine there is a way to do it to some extent.
Did you collect some soil and take it with you to record a clearer spectrum at home? The Cs peak protrudes only very weakly from the spectrum. Try the difference between linear and logarithmic representation. You can save the spectrum in the library and export it from there as an XML file. Would you please provide this online?
Maybe you are interested in tips etc. for the RadiaCode, then take a look at the geigerzaehlerforum (mostly in german). We have been supporting the device since it was launched in early 2021.
The detectors I trained with started reading at 1/rad per hour. We were trained to walk in find that reading and mark the line. Then walking the edge to mark a relatively safe path for following units. Seems your unit is much more sensitive.
Yeah, modern equipment is much, much more sensitive. A lot of the readings he’s getting wouldn’t have even been noticed back in the day, it’s hardly even something to be concerned about now.
I love my B20-ER, but that Radiascan looks awesome!
Yeah, I wish I initially got the B20-ER model but I’m super happy with the B20. It’s been a very solid detector for these last couple years.
I like your method of reporting without finger wagging. Were you able to locate the isotopes, isolate and remove it? Or was it over a widespread area?
I tried to remove some of the dirt in the crack of that rock to isolate the cesium 137. But I was unsuccessful in getting deep enough in that rock. I plan to go back with some different tools to help.
Thank you for the information.
Cyclotron Engineer here. Love the videos
Dana Durnford (YT) has been reporting on the world's radioactivity for years. He "live" streams several times a week, with 24/7 phone-in, too... and, every show is packed with nuclear updates and knowledge - and, will defintely add to Radoactive Drew's investigations. Cheers
THERE'S THIS PLACE.....up near Dawsonville GA. Back in the 60's they would expose missile components and other electronic gear to giant doses of gamma radiation - presumably to see how the devices would perform in a nuclear environment, being bombed, etc. They used a source on an elevator that rose up and blasted the test articles for a specified time, then was lowered back into it's shielded enclosure. I'm not sure where it is, but it's sort-of off limits, but people have clambered all over the place..... might be worth a look if you ever get into north Georgia. Pretty good barbecue here, too. I'm a radioman and a junk collector and your video of the aircraft instruments inspired me to find and collect all my radium-bearing meters in my parts room and ....take them out of the house. They say they're "SEALED - DO NOT OPEN".... but they're in ammo cans on the porch now. (What does one do with such stuff anyhow without getting on some evil watch list?) Love your stuff. You may have raised my chances of living to old age, Drew. Thanks. Jeff
Thanks for the heads up on that location. I’ll have to look into it. Those radium gauges are usually pretty spicy and if they aren’t still sealed can leak radium dust, which is a pretty big problem. The ones I have I keep in an old safe away from everyone. They can be stored safely but I’m not a big fan of having stuff that hot and a gamma emitter in the house.
Come to Mississippi and inspect the Tatum Salt Dome. The only nuclear underground test East of the Mississippi River. This was a test conducted in a salt formation at roughly 1000' at depth. Some rich history with the test that also include a second test in the underground excavated salt dome.
This channel really radiates 😀
Interesting to see how far detectors have come. Back in the day a group from Sandia and Lawrence Livermore visited my work site. They were part of DOEs NEST team. We provided different sources and completed items for them to train on detecting hidden items. Their equipment was in a small motor home which they would drive by the test area and get their readings. They actually detected each source and where they were manufactured.
I visited the NTS too. That was a fascinating place. For me, the vacuum testing was the most interesting.
I live in the state of New Mexico. And from what I was told that the average background radiation is a lot higher here than most places I guess that’s because we went boom first with the atomic bomb and we continue to do it here for years on end
About 22 years ago several friends and I were traveling North through the canyon at around 4:30 am. We all witnessed a spectacular and very large ufo hovering over the Portal Creek area. I went up Portal Creek road recently and it is very obvious that a large circular area of the forest has encountered serious stunted growth!
Not sure if it's related at all to your discovery but, it seems like a pretty interesting coincidence.
Andrew, can you do spectroscopy with the RadEye? I have a RadEye and I'm trying to figure out how to identify isotopes with it.
Radiacode ought to sponsor you for this vid if they haven't already....there are some places here in AZ I'd love to show you with that, btw.
You mentioned $50? That's for the app, I'm assuming? The device seems to run around 400 USD if you order direct.
Thermo Fisher does make an isotope identifier but it’s $20K or something like that. I know for sure the Radeye B20 doesn’t do gamma spectroscopy.
The $50 I was talking about was for a cheap Samsung phone that can run that app. The app is free and they are working on one for iPhone.
Glad you`re having fun .. How do you like your new toy? pretty cool huh!
Its been a lot of fun and a very helpful tool to have out with me. Looking forward to building a bigger detector as well.
This is all well and good, but the important question is, which of these radioactive isotopes will be most likely to _infuse_ a person with superpowers? Oh, and which superpower(s) can one expect to acquire?
Seriously though, in your travels, have you come across any areas where radiation is so severe that it would be potentially dangerous to spend a few hours(or maybe a few days) there?
Could the radiation be from Eastern Washington's production of plutonium in the 40's, 50's and 60's. There was a huge downwind exposure to the population of Wasington and Idaho. My father died from cancer related to being a "downwinder".
How often do you put the geiger counter down to check. I live near West Chicago, nicknamed the radioactive capitol of the midwest because they were one of the largest suppliers of thorium for the atomic bombs and decided they would put top soil with thorium dust in a bunch of homes. It seems they keep claiming to have cleaned it all up and then finding more every few years. I have been doing some of my own readings but not sure how to improve my method. Also curious about the forest preserve near Argon where they are making their own Corium if there is any contamination or not.
Pretty sure the contamination from something like that would be uranium and not thorium.
I'm Canadian, years ago we'd come down to that area to the Radiation mines for healing. Would that be the same?
I love my radiacode! Great to see more content with it, you did a great job explaining the risk levels 👍
Yeah I pass by this at least 3 times a week. I live in The Big Lie and have a few old timers talk about radiation warnings from back in the day. Now I'm gonna freak out all the tourists😂😂
Just stumbled upon this channel. How do you connect your radiation readings to GPS coordinates? Are you just overlaying GPS track time stamps over the detector timestamps in a spreadsheet?
Great video as always, I wonder if there are still any hotspots in Orange NJ from the Radium Dial Studios
More than likely you could find some hot spots out there. Radium contamination in the environment is very hard to get rid of completely.
@@RadioactiveDrew Yes, Radium City is a great documentary and one of the workers who was there during it's demolition salvaged a table from some of the wood from there and indeed it was contaminated
@@RadioactiveDrew You folks make me want to pick up a Radiacode and go back up to Ottawa, IL again to look for traces from the cleanup of Radium Dial Company and Luminous Processes, Inc.
Your videos amazes me every time, it also amazes me that America has een big area of elevated readings of radioactivity and probably caused people back in the days to have elevated risks of cancer, "but we are not sure so let us speculate ;)"
Thank you for your amazing content videos i really learn a lot about radioactivity and elements its really interesting
U mentioned cancer...My passing comment is dont have sex with anyone who got the juice
It is unlikely, at best, to have caused any significant cancer increases. The average resident of Denver Colorado is exposed to more natural radiation than this at about 11.8 millisieverts a year. In fact, at this rate, if you were exposed to no other sources of radiation, you'd still be below the average for a US citizen (3 millisieverts a year) at 2.69 millisieverts. About half of that number for the average per year for a US resident is from natural sources, the other is from medical sources or man made sources (people living near coal and gas power plants are expired to a lot of radioactive material in the particulate discharge of said plants).
So while this level is higher than the average background radiation level of 0.1 to 0.2 microsieverts an hour, it's not significantly higher.
back in the 1960's, my dad, a chemical engineer with Union Carbide, spent lots of time around Bozeman, MT working with uranium mines and other stuff I didn't know about..I wonder if you are looking as some of the stuff he was playing with.
I know there are some uranium claims around here. But the isotope cesium-137 is manmade.
I picked up a cheap Chinese GM tube counter as a first detector/dosimitier. Loved the fallout map you displayed. I'll try to see if I can find a good copy online. I live in Washington state, My background is detected at 0.12 usv/h which is lower than I expected as the map suggests the area is between 1 and 2. I was surprised to find my smoke detectors at contact, were only about double background. They are insignificant. On the other hand, do have some lantern mantles. Didn't have the Coleman brand, but do have the Aladdin brand for an Aladdin kerosene lamp. The mantle package in contact was about 12 usv/hr, so considerable, but not detectable at any real distance more than a foot away. Because I didn't know how strong the radiation was, I keep those in the cupboard over the fridge, so rarely get closer than 2 feet from them in the kitchen. Nice show. It will be unlikely for me to buy the detector you showed, even though a spectrum for isotope detection is quite cool.
The americium 241 in smoke detectors can be extremely active. You need to have the right detector to see it. If you have a detector that can see alpha radiation you will be surprised how active those little buttons can be. Also they give off very low energy gamma radiation.
@@RadioactiveDrew The $40 detector I bought has a glass GM tube and I didn't take the detector apart. Not sure the alpha sensitivity with a glass GM tube. Anyway, it was interisting to test anyway. It really detects the emission from those mantles.
Can you recommend a detector for detecting radiation common from military activity? I fish around a base and there are warnings not to eat the fish. I have known people who worked out there that said am kinds of radioactive stuff was disposed of. Also loads of artillery is shot there. I just want to know areas you avoid plus i find it interesting.
Something affordable would be something like a Ludlum Model 3 with a 44-9 probe or the Radiacode 101. There are plenty of options out there but it’s hard to know what exactly to suggest without knowing the bases history.
Hey just found this channel, awesome content :D Where did you get your Radiacode 101, if I may ask?
I bought it from their site. Came within a week which makes me think they must have a distribution area here in the states. When I bought it they didn’t send me a confirmation email or tracking number. Had to reach out to someone on the chat for their site. So keep that in mind if you’re going to order one.
Hello Drew! Hey man your videos are great! I don't know how else to ask this but I would like to email you. I have in my possession a rare piece of 1950 nuclear equipment and I would like to ask you about it. I know exactly what it is but I don't want to put any pictures or any videos on UA-cam about it. (Yet) thanks and keep making great videos!
Glad you are enjoying the videos. My email is in the About section on my UA-cam channel.
Ever hear of the story behind the shooting of the John Wayne movie 'The Conqueror' and how the crew and cast all had very high cancer rates. They shot the movie in a fallout zone. Maybe visit the shooting location and see what pops up.
One of the strongest Conqueror film locations is about 10 miles north and slightly west of St. George, Utah in an area now called Snow Canyon State Park
@@waynegnarlie1 southern utah had massive cancer rates from above ground testing--the usa goooooovermint fought against compendsation for years until everybody sueing died--i did work as a contractor in the Nevada test site when they went with underground testing--we always wore monitors--mine never went off
You have to wonder if the source might be more specific than mere fallout. Satellite Iridium-33 debris from 09 onward could have landed in Montana, I personally saw one fireball as far south as Oregon.
As a fellow Montanan I find this very intriguing. I wonder, when there are wildfires, does the isotope stay in the ground or does it vaporize up in to the air?
It stays in the ground. I was able to detect it because of those rocks were holding that soil. Everywhere else the fallout evidence is going to be down over a foot into the ground. You would have to dig to find it.
@@RadioactiveDrew so during a wildfire it stays on the ground in Montana but contaminates Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Calabasas, and environs with massively elevated radiation levels after burning through the old Santa Susana site? I believe that we have been deceived as to the actual exposures in Eastern Ventura County. It's past the time that authorities are compelled to be honest about the potential perils to communities so the inhabitants can make informed choices, and if you are minimizing the danger then you are part of the problem. Take your responsibility seriously.
I do take what I say and show seriously. I think these environments aren’t the same. I’ve hiked around the Santa Suzana area and know a bit about the history there with the partial meltdown. I also know how they use to dispose of chemicals in a very unsafe way. I think people need to worry about chemical exposure at that site, not radiation exposure. I also doubt very much that the area radiation by Santa Suzana increased with the fires there…unless a building holding a bunch of old waste went up. If it’s isotopes in the dirt then it’s very unlikely for them to end up in the air.
In the study titled "Cesium Emissions from Labaroatory Fires"... they did an experiment learn more about this specific problem. The study states "In the event of a wildfire in a radionuclide-contaminated forest, some radionuclides would be emitted in the air while the rest would remain in the ash. This paper reports on a laboratory simulation study that examines the partitioning of cesium-133 (a non-radioactive isotope of cesium) between airborne particulate matter and residual non-entrained ash when pine needles and peat are doped with cesium. Only 1-2.5 percent of the doped cesium in pine needles was emitted as particulate matter, and most of the cesium was concentrated in the particulate fraction greater than 10 μm in aerodynamic diameter. For peat fires, virtually all of the cesium remained in the ash. The results from this study will be used for modeling efforts to assess potential exposure risks to firefighters and the surrounding public."
It may not be perfect but perhaps it represents what MAY happen to fallout during a wildfire.
@@RadioactiveDrew I appreciate your response, but respectfully disagree with your conclusion. Insofar as the Montana environment is concerned, one would think that after this many years of rain, snow and more abundant Flora than that found in the semi-arid Santa Susana region, that any radiological elements should have been absorbed, dispersed, saturated or otherwise neutralized. Your investigation proves that this is not the case, that these elements still exist upon the surface, so consequently will be released into the atmosphere during drought or Wildfire events. Further, it takes little investigation to realize that radiological contamination in the Santa Susana area resulting from the 2019 wildfire was widespread. Unfortunately these results that have been made public have been collected by Weekend Warriors such as yourself who have no backing of government or corporate specialists, who so far have discounted and ignored layman's findings. Having witnessed first hand what I believe to be a number of the ill effects of chemical and radiological contamination as it affects especially children and newborns whose mothers have been in the vicinity of these accidents and disasters, we cannot run through the countryside exposing their continued existence and then fall in with government and or corporate Talking Heads that tell us don't worry about it everything is going to be okay. Everything is not okay. There are kids right this second playing in a park in a Hazmat site. Might I suggest that you continue to expose problems where you find them and not opine as a quasi expert as to what their affects may or may not be on the citizens nearby. Thanks
I would love to see you come to Colorado and see if you can detect any plutonium downwind and downstream from the Rocky flats munitions plant where they have plutonium go into the river and also have plutonium fires... I heard in the news a few years ago that they decided not to finish building the 470 freeway because of contamination in the Arvada and golden area.
I've been to the site before, some years ago before I was making videos. I'm planning on going back to investigate the area a bit more and make a video.
My dad worked for Willow Run Radiation Lab WWll and after. These labs are everywhere. Sure, lots of contaminants and genetics affects health outcomes, but cancer profiles and data such as frequency of ALS diagnoses are higher in industrialization areas. Close in CWE has an EPA site a bit to the east and north that leaks into residential areas every time there is a heavy rain. Deserts are not the only environment in which our government has endangered its citizens.
There is also a controversy about exotic,man made radio-isotopes found on mars...... Fallout on land would be also be worse without rainfall and the movement of material down the watershed and transported out by water movement, basically leaching process. Its how the oceans became salty.
What about the jet stream carrying Cesium 137 from Fukushima meltdown. Possible increased of rain over that area (Rocky Mountains) caused the cesium 137 deposit. Just a thought. Keep up the excellent work. Regards from Australia.
The jet stream didn’t carry cesium 137 over here from Fukushima. There have been 15-16 fallout clouds that made their way over from the Nevada Test site to Montana.
I live near Dawson Forest in Georgia. Lockheed left some nasty stuff there. The firehouse closest has a map outlining the hot spots.
I wonder how Treasure Island is looking these days?
We lived there back in the late 80s when everyone was at a slow cook while living over a radioactive landfill.
I think the 89 earthquake fluffed the sheets.
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Your videos are amazing!! I enjoy watching them!! Keep it up and hopefully your channel will blow!
I really got into radiation testing during the COVID lockdown and since then I’ve been doing all sorts of testing and collecting. I actually bought the radiacode 101 a year ago and found out that the tiles in my house are slightly radioactive with thorium peaks, which is really interesting!!!
It’s always interesting finding something radioactive that you’ve been around a bunch not realizing it’s even a little radioactive. Glad you are enjoying the videos.
So is the fallout just like dust particles that contains the cesium? Or are there actually chunks you could look for.
I-131 has an 8-day half-life. That means in a month It has reduced by 16x. Iodine typically comes from milk and seafood, reducing or eliminating your consumption of these items for 1 month after the accident will drastically lower your risk (and is also effective if you don't have KI around). This is what they should have done for the Chornobyl accident (which even though handled badly, still killed very few people, and few got thyroid cancer). Radiation is a hazard, but it is the dose that makes the poison - very high one-time doses or moderately high ones over a long time have a significant effect. Anything low dose has no statistical negative effect. There is no need to live in abject fear of radiation in our daily lives and nuclear plants release far less radiation than coal plants. Also, the Gy numbers quoted account for ALL the radiation released, not just I-131. The actual I-131 was far lower than the total release, and due to its short half-life, decayed quickly. Thyroid cancer has a 99% survival rate, particularly if addressed quickly, but it is easily prevented in a nuclear release from these tips. The bomb on the other hand is the real problem.
Nice to see people getting it right. You’re the only other person I’ve read in the comments say “the dose makes the poison”. Which is the same thing I tell people.
First off I must say that I like the content of your channel. Thanks for the time and effort to bring us this content. I only have one little gripe that’s caught my attention. It’s the way you are mispronouncing the word nuclear. It’s pronounced “new clear” not “nukeuler”. I only am saying this with the best intentions and I’m not the language police trying to bust your balls. It’s just hard for me to take your channel seriously when that word is mispronounced considering the seriousness of your subject matter. All the best and I’m looking forward to more.
Glad you like the content. I talk the way I talk…so the way I say nuclear isn’t going to change.
I think most ppl misunderstand one of the biggest dangers of radioactive fallout or "radioactive dust"
Imagine a radioactive isotope is like a fire pit (to simplify it), as further you are from the source/fire less heat (infrared radiation) you feel and safer you are from the "hot spot" (minimizing your exposure to it)
Unfortunately, if you happen to inhale or ingest a radioisotope, now you have the "fire" inside you.
Some radioisotopes like Thorium will decay into Radium which your body will confuse with Calcium and stick it to your BONES....now you have an alpha, beta and gamma emitter hitting your cells 24/7/365....
I did this in a small German town where they had granite pawing stones.2-3 times background and I just walked back and forth it showed up as a nice plot
I ordered the RadiaScan 101 on the website but not sure that's active anymore. Paid around 400 bucks but no reply or receipt. May have gotten scammed. Can I ask where u got yours? It's a brilliant device or radiological surveying.
For the time being with all that's going on, I'd only buy through a third party that guarantees a full refund IF the transaction goes wrong.
It was the same for me when I order mine. Hit them up through the chat and they will give you the tracking info.
@@RadioactiveDrew To update, they finally did get ahold of me. Glad they did because I was about to contest the transaction with my bank. So, looking forward to getting it, hopefully. I have to admit I've copied a lot of the equipment you use, Drew. Just seems the best.
Can you come to the areas surrounding Hanford Site? I’m sure you know of it since it’s the largest nuclear waste storage facility in the US. We have a major River next to it that is the Columbia Basin’s lifeline, and a lot of the west’s life line. We are smack dab between the old Umatilla Chemical Depot and Hanford. Lots of people here have rare blood cancers (I know at least two people with rare , chronic blood cancers). The rest of us seem to have autoimmune diseases. I’d like someone with your experience to take a look and see if it’s truly safe to be here. An older couple I’m related to by marriage, that worked there a long time ago lost three children and both had/have multiple cancers. We used to have to do drills as kids for both radioactive and chemical fallout. Nobody has ever paid attention to us or shared the story enough to get attention on us and get it solved. It’s really hushed. Actually the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana are all full of radioactive particles. 😂
You need to check out Santa Susana Field Laboratory just outside of Los Angeles CA. Famed nuclear reactor meltdown back in the 50/60’s…
I’ve hiked around the area and have done some preliminary filming for a video about the area. Lots of people have requested a video about the site.
Might be worth a few more trips to the area. I could see a multi episode series on this one. The wildfires that recently ravaged the area actually pushed fallout into surrounding areas and neighborhoods. Water runnoff off the mountain has always been know to be “hot”. Lots of national coverage has sprung up on this facility over the last ten years. Lots of curios minds. If you find yourself back in LA, please reach out. I can show you some things.
I notice you started glowing towards the end of the video. 👽🤖
That would be a intresting thing to do in Australia we had a few atmospheric tests
That radiation that you are detecting is most likely from Arco Idaho. The nuclear lab in Arco had an accident back some time in the 50's or 60's. The test reactor had a meltdown and breached containment. The map you showed for the fall out starts at and around arco. Just an fyi. I live in Idaho as well.
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I was wondering about Hanford in Washington state. I believe they had an accident at some point as well.
@@LonC1966 Hanford is where the Manhattan Project took place and is where they store all the nuclear waste and I do believe you're correct that it's the location of what's called the nuclear elephant's foot that was created during an accident there that was enclosed once and they had to construct a larger containment around it to dismantle the previous failing containment...
And they wonder why cancer is such a huge issue in our society, the government exposed us all over generations now to the repercussions of their weapon curiosity
@@RogueFamilySmithers you're mixing up Hanford and Chernobyl two very different places.
@@RogueFamilySmithers Hanford is one of the locations that the Manhattan Project took place. There were about 30 sites spread out between the US, Canada and the UK that played a part in research, development and testing. Oak Ridge Tennessee being one and the Army Garrison headquarters at that time. I work with a lot of Rad Tech's and Engineers that worked a lot of those sites. The elephant's foot is underneath Chernobyl's original core location. The fuel melted and fused with the sand underneath the reactor core building forming the elephant's foot. It was actually a good thing it formed or the contamination spread would have been much worse.