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You Can View Official EPA Radiation Readings
Update:
The EPA's servers have either been crashed by too much traffic
generated by this post, or the EPA has taken down the radiation data. Check back
later to see if the EPA's servers are working.
Please note that the radiation readings I looked at were NORMAL when the site was still up.
As I've previously noted, the San Jose Mercury News reports:
EPA Critics said the public needs more information. "It's
officials, however, refused to answer questions or make staff members
available to explain the exact location and number of monitors, or
the levels of radiation, if any, being recorded at existing monitors
in California. Margot Perez-Sullivan, a spokeswoman at the
EPA's regional headquarters in San Francisco, said the agency's
written statement would stand on its own.
disappointing," said Bill Magavern, director of Sierra Club
California. "I have a strong suspicion that EPA is being silenced by
those in the federal government who don't want anything to stand in the
way of a nuclear power expansion in this country, heavily subsidized
by taxpayer money."
Many people
assume that - if you can't find your own geiger counter - you don't have
many choices, other than relying on vague government announcements or scattered sources of information.
However, even if the EPA won't publicly discuss radiation levels, we can go look at the EPA's numbers ourselves. ... and we don't need Anonymous to hack into the EPA's site to do it.
Specifically:
1. Click on the following link: https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/query.do
2.In
the bottom right box labeled "Fixed Monitor Location", click on the
location of the monitor that you want to see results from
3. In the lower left box labeled "Time Range Criteria", specify the date range for the desired radiation readings
4.
The upper left box labeled "Available Parameters" gives various beta
and gamma radiation readings. Highlight as many as parameters as you
wish. Click the right arrow (to the right) to put them in the "Selected
Parameters" box, or the double right arrow to select all.
5. Hit
the "Submit" button at the bottom of the screen. If there are no
results, hit the back button on your browser, select "
Deployable Monitor List" to the right of "Monitor Type", and then
manually highlight one of the monitors in the "Deployable Monitor Id"
box.
6. Once you get results, you can create charts or graphs of
the information. Just scroll down on the results page to the box
labeled "Custom Graphical Plot", and choose your x-axis. I like
"Measurement Start Date/Time".
7. Click either the "Scatter Plot" or "Line Graph" button at the bottom of the results page.
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I'm working on getting my geiger counter up to a web page, which is turning into a bit of a challenge on such short notice.
This EPA data fiasco is exactly what I expected. The people in charge of EPA web servers are professional obfuscators, and they don't want you to see the data. I actually got on the site briefly this afternoon and looked at local radiation data. The numbers seemed quite high to me (>1000 CPM for some categories of gamma rays, although I didn't have time to go through the data in detail, or figure out what all the categories meant). So my confidence is low that this is an accurate report.
In any event, the EPA will do exactly what they did after 9/11 and after the GOM blowout: lie. Through their teeth. You know, to keep the public from panicking.
I don't know if any of you have seen the movie 2012, but one of the central themes of that movie was that the rich and powerful of the world have the data about what is really happening, and plan to act upon it. The reason they don't share that data with us is so we don't get in their way as they escape.
Data = knowledge = power, and it is time for us to have some of our own.
This may also be helpful... http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
It would nice, George, if you would have posted an independent static image. Now it just shows "This chart expired, please reload" and the server is of course down. Thanks.
I know, that was really stupid. It never occurred to me that it would expire, or that their system would crash. I just learned 2 things.
I've deleted the image.
This chart has expired. Please reload, bitchez.
UStream has at least one live geiger counter streaming from LA. Last I checked, the radiation count there was higher than it was in Tokyo. The geiger counter I watched for a few minutes out of LA was fluctuating between 28 and 32 CPM around noon today. By contrast, I remember watching another livefeed from Tokyo from Sunday through Tuesday. The count in Tokyo began around 12 or 13 CPM and rose to 23-ish CPM by Tuesday.
Here's the streaming geiger counter from West LA:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-radiation-monitoring-from-west-la#utm...
PLEASE note that the units of radiation being counted can differ between different geiger counters ... i.e. counts per minute, milli-roentgens per hour or micro-sieverts per hour.
You have to be careful that you're comparing apples to apples!
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-stat...
Radiation monitor in LA. And another private project for radiation tracking:
http://radiationnetwork.com/
"It's disappointing," said Bill Magavern, director of Sierra Club California. ">>>I<<< have a strong suspicion that EPA is being silenced by those in the federal government who don't want anything to stand in the way of a nuclear power expansion in this country, heavily subsidized by taxpayer money."
As opposed to Quixotic windmills, solar, ethanol and mass transit...mmmkay...LOL.
I've often pondered...when the last person has emitted their final gasp of climate destroying CO2...who will the EPA send the violation notice to? ;-)
And wouldn'tcha know, the server can't handle the load. Got a 500 error both times I tried. Another so-called "independent" or "public resource" is http://www.radiationnetwork.com/ which last time I checked is slowing slightly elevated readings for the West coast, but nothing close to "dangerous" readings.
Looks slashdotted to me.
g33k
Ooops ... I assumed their servers would be more robust.
yep