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due to the media blackout of Fukushima and its fallout in the United States,  ”We’re really dependent on indymedia these days.”
St. Louis raining Fukushima hot particles: Radiation 178 times normal(video)Examiner,21 Aug 11  

Heeding nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen’s call to monitor and share radiation data, a St. Louis citizen reporter has demonstrated with a Geiger counter on Saturday that background radiation in St. Louis Missouri was 178 times normal after the rainout according to ENEWS. Gundersen predicted that as Japan burns contaminated materials, radiation levels in the United States and Canada would escalate in rainouts for another year.

“St. Louis rain sample shows radiation dose on August 20 almost triple previous high reading,” ENEWS reported Sunday. 

At approximately 10:20 a.m. Saturday, August 20, in St. Louis Missouri, the reading from a citizen reporter in a vehicle driven approximately four miles through the trailing edges of a thunderstorm returned a reading of 1.786 mR/hr, equating to 178 times greater than normal background radiation. (See embedded Youtube on this page left.)
“This reading is almost three times greater than are previous high reading of 62x background radiation,” stated the reporter who is posting radiation readings on potrblog.com (“Pissin’ On The Roses”).
Friday, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear, the regulatory watchdog over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and nuclear power industry, Paul Gunter stated that, due to the media blackout of Fukushima and its fallout in the United States,  ”We’re really dependent on indymedia these days.”
Naming shows like Russia Today, blogs and Youtube, Gunter said, ”These are where news on Fukushima breaks first.”
(See: ”China Syndrome ‘clearly a concern’: Expert”)
Arnie Gundersen recently explained that citizen reporters are needed to help collect radiation data after rainouts.
A “rainout is when a radioactive cloud passes over an area and, due to a coincidental rainstorm, the hot particles get dropped on the soil,” and that the United states was “going to see another year of these rainouts,” he explained……

Alexander Higgins is among citizen reporters in the United States who is rallying to provide accurate radiation monitoring data to Americans with an interactive website clearly showing maps with charts of radiation levels across the country.
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/st-louis-raining-fukushima-hot-particles-radiation-178-times-normal-video?CID=examiner_alerts_article

August 22, 2011 - Posted by | media, USA

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