Showing posts with label countrywide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countrywide. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 March 2011

RADNET: EPA's countrywide radiation monitor

Just found an android widget for this site and I like it, but I'm more familiar with rem and milirem than this counts per minute jazz.

http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.html

From the site:

The beta gross count rate measures the radiation from all radionuclides that emit beta particles, which is indicated by the term gross or total. The term count rate tells us how quickly beta particles are being detected, which indicates how much radioactivity the monitor is seeing.

The gamma data measures radiation from all radionuclides that emit gamma rays and splits them into ranges of energy. The word gross, or total, indicates that the measurement is from all gamma emitting radionuclides. Not all gamma rays have the same amount of energy. Breaking the data into discrete energy ranges helps scientists to determine which radionuclides may be present.


View the original article here