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THE TRUTH ABOUT GEIGER COUNTERS.. THEY DONT MEASURE PLUTONIUM & URANIUM RADIATION!!!!!!!
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"Civil Defence" models distributed during the Cold War are unlikely to be any use. We have seen adverts for the CDV-715, for example, which has a range with the bottom end starting at 0.01 Roentgens per hour. Natural background radiation should be in the range 0.01 milliRoentgens per hour down to 0.005 milliRoentgens per hour (1 milliRoentgen being one thousandth of a Roentgen). In other words the CDV-715 is 1000 times too insensitive to pick up even the highest likely value of natural background.
The article is assuming that you don't need a CDV-715 ONLY because you are measuring NORMAL BACKGROUND LEVELS where you are and these won't register. If you are in a place like Los Angeles we are getting slammed with gamma from the FUK plants right now. If you can definitely pick up a CDV-715, you will see it for yourself!
I can assure you I have a CDV-715 and IT IS REGISTERING in Los Angeles. In fact right now it reads .8 roentgens per hour. A roentgen is equivalent in effect to a rad. NOT GOOD. But not surprising considering as more and more info comes out from TEPCO in dribs and drabs we are SLOWLY being alerted to the serious of the situation.
I agree and I have tried to tell people a regular geiger counter is useless in a situation like this. The only affordable detectors for these high levels of rad that the public can purchase is something like the CDV-715.
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