Tri-Valley CAREs
Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Monday, March 21, 2011 (updated daily)
Posted by Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs and independent scientists and other organizations that own radiation detection equipment along the coast of CA, OR, WA, AK and Canada began taking regular radiation readings as the crisis developed and deepened at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
We non-governmental scientists and organizations undertook this project with three aims in mind: as a precautionary measure, as a means of establishing local "background" numbers and as a transparency measure to ensure that information would always be publicly available.
A list serv has been set up at [email protected] To view the web site where groups are sending their data Click here. Additionally, here, below, is Tri-Valley CAREs' ongoing monitoring journal. We are updating it daily.
Type of Device: "Radalert50" by International Medcom
Location of Device: Tri-Valley CAREs' office, 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
Journal of Dates, Times, Notes and Readings:
Monday, March 14, 2011 -
Noon, left on counts per minute setting for five minutes. Counts per minute ranging from 8 to 20.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 -
2 PM, left on counts per minute setting for about 15 minutes. Counts per minute ranging from 7 to 20.
2:30 PM. Tested it for about an hour on the mR/hr setting - averaging between 0.007 and 0.017 mR/hr (which is the same basic range as the counts per minute above).
5 PM to 6 PM, averaging 0.007 to 0.014 mR/hr
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 -
8 AM to 9:30 AM, averaging 0.009 to 0.014 mR/hr
1:30 PM to 2 PM, averaging 0.011 to 0.014 mR/hr
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM, averaging 0.007 to 0.013 mR/hr
Thursday, March 17, 2011 -
10 AM to 11:30 AM, averaging 0.007 to 0.014 mR/hr
1 PM to 2:15 PM, averaging 0.007 to 0.014 mR/hr
Friday, March 18. 2011 -
9:45 AM to NOON, averaging 0.005 mR/hr to 0.014 mR/hr
Raining in the afternoon in Livermore
1:10 PM to 3:20 PM, averaging 0.015 to 0.019 mR/hr
Saturday, March 19, 2011 -Raining off and on all day in Livermore
NOON TO 1 PM, averaging 0.010 mR/hr to 0.11 mR/hr
NOTE: I see that the San Luis Obispo folks are reporting their findings as counts per minute. On the Radalert50, the mR/hr and counts per minute are essentially the same. I will report as counts per minute from now on for consistency with others. -Marylia
Monday, March 21, 2011 - Cloudy but not raining in Livermore
9:15 AM to 12:15 PM, ranging from 8 to 11 counts per minute.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, ranging from 8 to 20 counts per minute.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 � Cloudy and raining in Livermore
9:30 AM to 11 AM, ranging from 7 to 19 counts per minute
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM, ranging from 5 to 22 counts per minute
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - Cloudy and some morning rain in Livermore
9:15 AM to 10:30 AM, ranging from 8 to 13 counts per minute
4:45 PM to 5:30 PM, ranging from 8 to 22 counts per minute
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - Raining in Livermore
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM, ranging from 6 to 19 counts per minute
1:15 PM to 2:15 PM, ranging from 7 to 20 counts per minute
Friday, March 25, 2011- Cloudy and morning rain in Livermore
10 AM to 10:45 AM, raqnging from 5 to 17 counts per minute
Saturday, March 26, 2011- Cloudy and light rain
3 PM - 4:45 PM, ranging from 6 to 15 counts per minute
Monday, March 28, 2011- Raining in Livermore
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, ranging from 6 to 18 counts per minute
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, Light rain
12:30 PM to 2 PM, ranging from 8 to 18 counts per minute
Wednesday, March 30, 2011- Clear and sunny
9:30 AM to 11 AM, ranging from 6 to 14 counts per minute
Thursday, March 31, 2011, Clear and sunny
12 to 1:45 PM, ranging from 9 to 18 counts per minute
Friday, April 1, 2011, Clear and sunny
2 to 4:00 PM, ranging from 5 to 18 counts per minute
Monday, April 4, 2011, Clear and sunny
9 to 10:40 AM, ranging from 2 to 15 counts per minute
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Clear and sunny
9:20 to 10:20 AM, ranging from 5 to 16 counts per minute
1 to 2:00 PM, ranging from 7 to 18 counts per minute
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, Cloudy
9:05 to 10:05 AM, ranging from 6 to 19 counts per minute
1:30 to 2:30 PM, ranging from 6 to 21 counts per minute
Thursday, April 7, 2011, Clear and sunny
9:25 to 10:25 AM, ranging from 8 to 22 counts per minute
12:45 to 1:45 PM, ranging from 4 to 17 counts per minute
Friday, April 8, 2011, Clear and sunny
9:15 to 10:15 AM, ranging from 9 to 14 counts per minute
12:30 to 1:30 PM, ranging from 6 to 16 counts per minute
Monday, April 11, 2011, Cloudy
9:30 to 10:30 AM, ranging from 7 to 18 counts per minute
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, Sunny
9:45 AM to Noon, ranging from 5 to 14 counts per minute
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Cloudy
10:45 AM to 1:15 PM, ranging from10 to 14 counts per minute
Thursday. Aptil 14, 2011, No readings, out of office
Friday, April 15, 2011
11:15 AM to 1:15 PM, readings ranging from 7 to 15 counts per minute
Saturday, April 16, 2011
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, readings from 11 to 17 counts per minute
Monday, April 18, 2011
4:30 to 5:30 PM, readings from 6 to 17 counts per mintute
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
1:45 to 2:45 PM, readings from 8 to 20 counts per minute
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
10:15 to 11:30 AM, readings from 9 to 18 counts per minute
Thursday, April 21, 2011
2:30 to 4:30 PM, readings from 5 to 18 counts per minute
Friday, April 22, 2011
11:15 to 12:15 PM, readings from 9 to 24 counts per minute
Saturday, April 23, 2011
11:00 to Noon, readings from 6 to 19 counts per minute
This concludes our radiation monitoring project. Feel free to call our office for more information, (925) 443-7148
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