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According to my Geiger-Muller Counter data logger. Nuclear radiation detector.

According to my Geiger-Muller Counter data logger. Nuclear radiation detector.

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mR/h - millirem per hour

.010 mR/h would be .00000277 mR per second.

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My math was waaaaaaaay off lol

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We who? I don't know where you are.

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Okay. Help us understand.

Your number 0.010 to 0.012 mR/h. -is this a big number? What does it compare to? -is your home filled with Radon....? -is this a change from typical (background geological / environmental / etc.)

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I have a nuclear radiation detector. I copy and pasted this: "The differences in exposure and dose are very subtle. Basically, exposure is the amount of radiation in the area, and dose is the amount of that radiation expected to be absorbed by a person. For gamma rays, there is approximately a one-to-one ratio between exposure rate and dose rate. One (1) milliRoentgen per hour (mR/h) is approximately 10,000 nanoSieverts per hour (nSv/h)." So doing the math roughly 90.5 mR/h in 12 hours.

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You have a radiation detector - it detects radiation of all types - cosmic, geological, nuclear. The Geiger-Muller tube inside your detector cannot determine the type of source.

A typical ride in a commercial airliner will expose you to about 0.20 mR/h of cosmic radiation.

Are you saying you are reading cosmic radiation?

What are you saying?

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I guess it's cosmic, however, we do have the fallouts from fukushima, chernobyl, and other nuclear disasters flowing in our atmosphere. Aside from barium being dumped by the stratospheric aerosol injection being sprayed by the airplanes. https://lisfields.org/mapping-deposition-of-radioactive-fallout/ Probably underinflated numbers.